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Women Flyers of America (WFA)
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1940-1955
bulk 1942-1953
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3.05 Cubic Feet ((1 flatbox) (2 records center boxes))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.1987.0050
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection contains items relating to the WFA. The material consists of correspondence, membership applications, organizational newsletters, minutes, bulletins, flyers, by-laws and financial reports, biographical information on some members, and a scrapbook on the organization.
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Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company
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1906-1947
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9 Cubic Feet (18 document boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.1987.0029
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
The years before World War I were spent in patent litigation for aviation pioneers Glenn Curtiss and Orville and Wilbur Wright.
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Taylor, Charles Edward, 1868-1956
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1928-1966
bulk 1928-1956
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0.23 Cubic Feet ((1 slim legal document box))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.1987.0006
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This accession includes Taylor's correspondence with his son, Rueben W. Taylor, (1928-1948), and the Garrison Machine Works, (1953-1956), makers of gears used in the Wright flyer engines. The letters to Rueben Taylor are originals, while the Garrison Machine Works correspondence are mostly xerox copies. Also included are brief biographical sketches...
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United States. Air Force
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bulk 1930-1966
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366.64 Cubic Feet
- Collection ID:
- NASM.1986.0164
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
his collection consists of 2,295 rolls 35mm film, 1,914 rolls of 16mm film, 17 rolls of 17.5mm magnetic sound track, and 12 U-Matic video tapes. The collection contains training films and documentary footage. Typically, the training film sets contain all of the preprint material such as the A and B rolls, the separate sound track, and an answer or ...
Apollo Flight Guidance Computer Software Collection [Hamilton]
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Hamilton, Margaret Heafield, 1936-
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1965-1986
bulk 1965-1972
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1.22 Cubic Feet (2 legal document boxes; 1 slim legal document box)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.1986.0158
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
The Apollo Flight Guidance Computer Software Collection [Hamilton] consists of reports, memoranda, and related material documenting the Apollo flight guidance software developed by Margaret Hamilton's team at the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory (CSDL) in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The collection also includes Hamilton's 1986 handwritten notes on selected documents.
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bulk 1910
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0.05 Cubic Feet ((1 folder))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.1986.0157
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection includes two photographs on postcards. The first is of Wellman-Vaniman airship America. The second shows (left to right) Murray Simon (?) - navigator; Walter Wellman - explorer and journalist; Melvin Vaniman - designer of America and chief engineer on flight over Atlantic; Jack Irwin - radio operator on America; and Frederic Aubert ...
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National Air and Space Museum (U.S.)
Ford Motor Company.
Science Museum of London
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1928-1986
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9.3 Cubic Feet ((3 48"x36"x3" drawers))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.1986.0152
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of drawings of the 1903 Wright Flyer executed at various times during the life of the aircraft: Science Museum of London Drawings -- commissioned when the aircraft was on loan to the Museum; Ford Drawings -- sponsored by the Ford Motor Company which were supervised by Orville Wright and Charles Taylor; Christman Drawings --...
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Moseley, Francis L.
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1930-1981
bulk [ca. 1930s-1950s]
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3.27 Cubic Feet ((3 records center boxes))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.1986.0148
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection includes technical development reports, booklets, periodicals, lab books, and reports dealing with radar. Included is material from Aeronautical Radio, Inc., American Telephone and Telegraph Company, Bell Telephone System, Commonwealth and Empire Conference on Radio for Civil Aviation (CERCA), Collins Radio Company, General Electric...
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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1985-1986
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2.18 Cubic Feet ((2 records center boxes))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.1986.0128
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of optical imaging from Voyager II's January 1986 Uranus encounter. The images are negatives and prints from the Voyager imaging computer, and include ranging data and image processing information as well was the image itself. The images cover the major moons of Uranus as well as the Uranus ring system.
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Szewczyk, Zdzislaw I.
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1941-1974
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25.42 Cubic Feet ((25 legal document boxes) (13 records center boxes) (3 flatboxes))
24.02 Linear Feet
- Collection ID:
- NASM.1986.0121
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of material documenting the development of airborne radar and related avionics assembled by Zdzislaw I. Szewczyk, an engineer with the General Motors Company. The material consists of a 35-volume catalog of ready reference information on radar hardware, arranged by country and manufacturer. Catalog entries refer to specific...