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Science Service
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1927-1970
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11 cu. ft. (11 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 13-034
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of Science Service subject files pertaining to medical science, chemistry, chemical technology, and physics. Materials include correspondence and memoranda; news releases; clippings, photographs and negatives; articles, reports, research papers, and related topical information.
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Science Service
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1907-1970
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4 cu. ft. (4 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 18-137
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of Science Service subject files pertaining primarily to agriculture, farming, plants, animals, forest and forestry, fishes, mining, chemical technology, manufacturing, the National Park Service, and food. The subject files are arranged according to the Library of Congress classification system. E - America HV - Pover...
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National Museum of History and Technology. Division of Physical Sciences
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1955-1966 and undated
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3.5 cu. ft. (3 record storage boxes) (1 document box)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 579
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This record unit consists of the research files of Robert P. Multhauf, Curator in the Division of Physical Sciences. The records contain scripts for Hall of Chemistry exhibitions; historical information and illustrations pertaining to chemistry, chemical apparatus, and industrial laboratories; biographies of distinguished chemists; and se...
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1992-1993
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11 videotapes.
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 9577
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
The Smithsonian Videohistory Program, funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation from 1986 until 1992, used video in historical research. Additional collections have been added since the grant project ended. Videohistory uses the video camera as a historical research tool to record moving visual information. Video works best in historical r...
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Cary Instruments.
Hawes, Roland C., 1908-1999
Applied Physics Corporation.
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1908-1997
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14.5 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0617
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Correspondence, handwritten notes and sketches, memorandum reports, catalogs, printed material, patent documents, drawings, blueprints (original and diazo copies), and photographs document Hawes's work in the field of immunnassay, spectrophotometry, scientific apparatus and instruments industry, and administrative duties at Applied Physics Corporat...
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Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (Ohio)
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1915-1955
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464.34 Cubic Feet ((426 records center boxes))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0428
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
The collection consists of reports and other documents on a variety of aviation-related topics, including general science (aeronautics, physics, chemistry, etc); military air service personnel, organization, and equipment for both US and foreign air forces; as well as operations, and so on. Information on foreign services and equipment is usually f...
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DuPont (E. I.) de Nemours & Company
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1939-1977
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1 Cubic foot (4 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0007
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Promotional booklets and pamphlets, 1940-1963, regarding nylon; catalogues on the industrial use of nylon; 25th anniversary book on nylon; photographs, and a variety of other documents. Includes memo to DuPont employees concerning the company's wartime involvement in the development of the atomic bomb.
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Pierce, Harold Fisher, 1889-1963
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1909-1985
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3.27 Cubic feet (4 legal document boxes; 1 legal half-size document box; 3 flat boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2014.0044
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
The Harold F. Pierce collection consists of documents relating to Pierce's career in aviation medicine, particularly his service as a flight surgeon in World War I and World War II and his work on the Henderson Pierce rebreathing apparatus. Materials include correspondence, photographs, military records, certificates, technical drawings, and news clippings.
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Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. Science Media Group
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1994-2013
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5 cu. ft. (5 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 17-067
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
The Science Media Group (SMG) was founded by Dr. Matthew H. Schneps and Dr. Philip Michael Sadler as an experimental project to explore novel applications of video in the service of science education. In operation at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and the Harvard College Observatory from 1989 to 2013, this accession consists of...
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Baekeland, L. H. (Leo Hendrik), 1863-1944
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1976
1863 - 1968
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15 Cubic feet (49 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0005
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The papers document Leo H. Baekeland, a Belgian born chemist who invented Velox photographic paper (1893) and Bakelite (1907), an inexpensive, nonflammable, versatile plastic. The papers include student notebooks; private laboratory notebooks and journals; commercial laboratory notes; diaries; patents; technical papers; biographies; newspaper clippings; maps; graphs; blueprints; account books; batch books; formula books; order books; photographs; and correspondence regarding Baekeland, 1887-1943.