Pittsburgh and West Virginia Railway Company Drawings
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Pittsburgh and West Virginia Railway Company
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1948-1950
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1 Cubic foot (2 oversize folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0279
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Engineering drawings (81) of the Centralized Traffic Control Machine electrical circuits of the Pittsburgh and West Virginia Railway Company (later Norfolk and Western Railway Company). The circuits extend from Connellsville, Pennsylvania to Pittsburgh Junction, Ohio and include those for mechanical controls, electrical signals, and telephone commu...
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Lanza, Kenneth
Lanza, Anthony, 1925-1995
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1925-1946
undated
bulk 1940-1946
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1.33 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0910
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
World War II personal papers, photographs, and printed material of Anthony R. Lanza, who served in the U.S. Army in Japan between 1944 and 1946.
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Braden Copper Company
Noerager, A. J.
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1914-1940.
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3.5 Cubic feet (5 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0017
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Photographs of Chilean power stations and equipment; and engineering drawings and blueprints of the Braden Copper Company, Rancaqua, Chile.
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Baer, Ralph H., 1922-2014
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1943 - 2015
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16 Cubic feet (44 boxes and 1 oversize folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0854
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Ralph H. Baer was a German-born ordnance specialist, inventor, and engineer. He was a pioneer of early videogame technology. The papers include autobiographical materials; firearms notes, manuscripts, and photographs; and videogame and television engineering notes, diagrams, schematics, and video documentation.
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Crown Central Petroleum Corporation
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1949 - 1996
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0.66 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1398
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection includes advertising materials for Crown Central's credit card and credit check programs, for gifts (cameras, kitchenware) offered by its service station to repeat customers; a set of posters and a design drawing for them, exhorting drivers to drive safely, featuring images of governors of states, President Dwight Eisenhower, FBI Dir...
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Mount, Wadsworth W., 1907-1985
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[ca. 1940s-1977]
bulk [ca.1940s-1950s]
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1.09 Cubic feet ((1 records center box))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0368
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection contains photographs, negatives, blueprints, patents, test reports and correspondence dealing with Mount's rocket application inventions.
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Chillson, Charles W., 1910-
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1950-1956
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3.12 Linear Feet
3.5 Cubic Feet (8 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0008
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection largely documents Chillson's affiliation with the ARS, particularly his presidency in the early 1950s, and includes correspondence with ARS members, aerospace companies, and organizations such as the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the British Interplanetary Society, the International Astronautical Federation, and the Institute of Aeronautical Sciences. There is also correspondence with Wernher von Braun and Esther C. Goddard. The collection also includes papers presented to or published by the ARS, some diagrams and photographs highlighting rocket plans or capabilities, and some pamphlets and articles on rockets.
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Science, Medicine and Society, Division of (NMAH, SI).
Huskey, Harry D.
Larson, Harry
Rutland, Dave
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1946-1952
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0.5 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1217
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection documents circuit development for the Standards Western Automatic Computer (SWAC). SWAC was an early digital computer built in 1950 by the U.S. National Bureau of Standards in Los Angeles, California.
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Brodie, Allan, Dr.
Angle, Edward H. (Edward Hartley), 1855-1930
Medical Sciences, Division of, NMAH, SI.
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1893-1940.
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3.16 Cubic feet (9 boxes
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- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0724
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Business and professional papers of Dr. Edward H. Angle, relating to his pioneering work in orthodontics. The papers include letters to and from Dr. Angle; photographs, subjects including Angle, his patients, equipment, skulls and jawbones and other demonstration photographs of orthodontic subjects, including some x-ray photographs (radiographs); n...
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Romick, Darrell C.
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bulk 1940s-1980s
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50 Cubic Feet ((40 boxes))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2014.0015
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of approximately 45 cubic feet of papers, photographs, audio recordings, reports, drawings, correspondence and film, created or collected by Darrell Romick. The papers highlight his visionary space engineering, especially during his time at Goodyear during the 1950s and early 1960s.