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Digitized Content Eisler Engineering Company records
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Creators:
Eisler Engineering Company.
Dates:
1885 - 1988
bulk 1920-1950s
Size:
30 Cubic feet (49 boxes, 25 oversize folders)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0734
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Records document Charles Eisler, a Hungarian immigrant who was a skilled mechanic and engineer and his company, Eisler Engineering Company of Newark, New Jersey, which manufactured equipment for producing electric lamps, television and radio tubes, welding equipment and laboratory equipment.

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Paul G. Watson Collection
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Creators:
Watson, Paul Gristock, 1900-1966 (naval officer)
Dates:
1960-1965
Size:
1 Cubic foot (3 boxes)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0104
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

The collection documents the early development of radio apparatus.

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Ladislaus Laszlo Marton Collection
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Creators:
Marton, Ladislaus Laszlo, 1901-1979 (physicist)
Dates:
1932 - 1970
Size:
4.66 Cubic feet (15 boxes, one (1) 16 mm film)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0100
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

This collection consists of materials documenting the history of electron optics, especially electron microscopes. Included are engineering drawings of Marton's devices, designed in Belgium, Stanford and RCA in the 1930s and 1940s; notebooks concerning extensive investigations in electron microscopy; photographs and micrographs concerning developm...

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Digitized Content C.L. Stong Papers
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Creators:
Stong, C.L., 1902-1975 (electrical engineer)
Dates:
1952-1976
Size:
12.6 Cubic feet (38 boxes)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0012
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

These papers are the files of the editor of "The Amateur Scientist" section of the Scientific American from 1952 to 1975. They are arranged chronologically by date of article. The feature was started in 1952 as an expansion of "The Amateur Astronomer" section of the periodical. The papers include files of Stong's predecessor and files for article...

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Digitized Content Del Mar Avionics Holter Monitor Records
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Creators:
Del Mar, Bruce E., 1913-
Dates:
1951-2011
Size:
3 Cubic feet (8 boxes)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.1249
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Collection documents the development of the Holter Monitor, a portable device for continuously monitoring heart activity for an extended period, through engineering logbooks, drawings, operator manuals, correspondence, photographs, sales brochures and catalogs, biographical information about the engineering staff who worked on the monitor, patents and trademarks, and marketing and sales materials.

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Digitized Content Allen Balcom Du Mont Collection
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Creators:
Du Mont, Allen B. (Allen Balcom), 1901-1965
Dates:
1884-1965
Size:
46 Cubic feet (150 boxes)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0018
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

While the collection is focused rather specifically on the development of television in America, including technical details, legal proceedings, marketing and advertisement, and manufacturing, it is also a rich source for the history of American advertising, work cultures, sales, and entertainment. There is also information about radio, mostly in p...

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Medical Sciences Film Collection
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Creators:
National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Medical Sciences
National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Medical Sciences
Dates:
1938-1974
Size:
36 Cubic feet (81 Films, 16mm)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0222
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Films vary in subject, production source, and intended audience. Includes both silent and sound black-and-white, and color films with sound.

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Grant Proposals
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Creators:
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. Contracts and Procurement Office
Dates:
1965-1978
Size:
20 cu. ft. (20 record storage boxes)
Collection ID:
Record Unit 525
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

These records document quotations, proposals, and bids from contractors, equipment makers, and other vendors to provide facilities and instruments for the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) and its programs. Of special interest are voluminous files concerning the development and planning for the Multiple-Mirror Telescope (MMT) fa...

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Digitized Content Walter Guyton Cady Papers
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Creators:
Cady, Walter Guyton, 1874-1973 (physicist)
Dates:
1903-1974
Size:
22.5 Cubic feet (73 boxes)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0046
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Consists chiefly of Cady's research notebooks on various subjects in physics and a considerable technical reprint file; some records of Cady's consultant work and patents granted.

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Digitized Content Rudolph Hering Collection
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Creators:
Hering, Rudolph, 1847-1923
Dates:
1860-1923
Size:
8.1 Cubic feet (32 boxes, 1 map-folder)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0989
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Collection documents, primarily through printed publications, Rudolph Hering's work on waste disposal, drainage, water flow of rivers, sanitary and hydraulic engineering, and municipal sewage systems in the United States and in other countries.

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