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American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Information, Technology and Society, Div. of (NMAH, SI).
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1942-1978.
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39 items (films)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0684
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Thirty-nine 16mm films on various subjects relating to telephone systems and communications, such as pole worker safety; party line etiquette; the transition from silent film to sound film; and the application of satellites, lasers and transistors to sound communication.
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Espenschied, Lloyd, 1889-? ((electrical engineer) )
Electricity and Modern Physics, Division of, NMAH, SI.
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1907-1969.
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11.3 Cubic Feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0013
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Miscellaneous information on the history of telephonic and wireless communication; considerable personal correspondence about men and events in the field, especially disputed claims of inventions, development, and the like.
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Morton, Sterling, 1885-1961
Goodspeed, Charles B.
Teletype Corporation
Kleinschmidt, Edward E., 1876-1977
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1915-1930
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0.6 Cubic Feet (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1259
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This collection largely contains correspondence regarding the Kleinschmidt Teletype, as well as financial records and newspaper clippings regarding the Teletype Company.
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Moseley, Francis L.
- Dates:
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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
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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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Maxey, H. David
Smithsonian Institution National Museum of American History
- Dates:
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1939-1999
- Size:
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8 Cubic Feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0417
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The Smithsonian Speech Synthesis History Project, conducted by H. David Maxey from 1986 through 2002, created a collection of archival materials documenting the history and development of speech synthesis technology. Maxey collaborated with Dr. Bernard Finn, Elliot Sivowitch and Harold Wallace of the National Museum of American History's Division of Information, Technology, and Society.
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Northern New York Telegraph and Telephone Company
Electricity and Modern Physics, Division of, NMAH, SI.
Sawyer, Alfred P. (Secretary and Treasurer of the Northern New York Telegraph and Telephone Company)
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1881-1887
- Size:
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0.3 Cubic Feet (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0099
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Primarily incoming correspondence to Alfred P. Sawyer of Concord, Massachusetts, Secretary and Treasurer of the Northern New York Telegraph and Telephone Company in Plattsburg, concerning routine activities of the Company. For a time he was stationed in Lowell, Massachusetts, until he resigned in 1887.
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Western Union Telegraph Company Records
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United Telegraph Workers.
Western Union Telegraph Company
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circa 1820-1995
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452 Cubic Feet (868 boxes and 21 oversize folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0205
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents in photographs, scrapbooks, notebooks, correspondence, stock ledgers, annual reports, and financial records, the evolution of the telegraph, the development of the Western Union Telegraph Company, and the beginning of the communications revolution. The collection materials describe both the history of the company and of the telegraph industry in general, particularly its importance to the development of the technology in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The collection is useful for researchers interested in the development of technology, economic history, and the impact of technology on American social and cultural life.
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Clark, George Howard, 1881-1956
Electricity and Modern Physics, Division of, NMAH, SI.
- Dates:
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circa 1880-1950
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220 Cubic Feet (700 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0055
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection forms a documentary record of over half a century of the history of radio, with the greatest emphasis on the period 1900-1935. The collection includes materials that span the entire history of the growth of the radio industry. It is useful for those historians and other researchers interested in technological development, economic history, and the impact of applications of technology on American life.
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Pickard, Greenleaf Whittier, 1877-1956
Cardwell Condenser Corporation (Lindenhurst, New York)
- Dates:
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1898-1941
- Size:
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1 Cubic Feet (5 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0915
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents Greenleaf Whittier Pickard, an engineer, and his experiments in wireless technology. Materials include Greenleaf Pickard notebooks and patents issued to Nikola Tesla.
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Ayer (N W) Incorporated.
- Dates:
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1817-1851
1869-2006
- Size:
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270 Cubic Feet (1169 boxes )
7 film reels
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0059
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection consists of records documenting one of the oldest advertising agencies created in Philadelphia. The company then moves to New York and expanses to international markets. During its history NW Ayer & Sons acquires a number of other advertising agencies and is eventually purchased. The largest portion of the collection is print advertisements but also includes radio and television. NW Ayer is known for some of the slogans created for major American companies.