Otto Lilienthal Photographs
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circa 1894
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0.05 Cubic feet (1 folder)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.1093
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
One of the most significant pre-Wright brothers aeronautical experimenters was the German glider pioneer Otto Lilienthal. This collection consists of three photographs of him.
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Bensen, Igor.
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bulk 1978
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Enter vol amt Cubic Feet ((1 box))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2006.0029
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of the Bensen B-8 Gyro-Glider documentation: Building and Operating Manual; plan drawings; Rotorcraft Dictionary; Bensen-related brochures; list of tools needed to build a gyrocopter; Building and Operating Material Specifications for Bensen Models B-8 and B-8M; Catalog No. 81 and order form; Installment Purchase Plan docum...
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Parker, John E.
- Dates:
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1940-1945
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3.09 Cubic Feet ((1 records center box) (4 flatboxes))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.1991.0005
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection contains four wooden covered scrapbooks designed by John E. Parker which include clippings and photographs of the company during this period. Collection also includes 'General Survey Organization Northwestern Aeronautical Corporation;' 'Postwar Products Survey Northwestern Aeronautical Corporation;' newsclippings on NAC; 'TOW Lines'...
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Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation.
Judd, Michael
MacCready, Paul, 1925-
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November 8, 2002
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0.25 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0842
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection includes nine (9) original Beta Cam SP videos documenting interviews with Paul MacCready, the father of human powered flight. MacCready invented the Gossamer Condor and Gossamer Albatross.
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Smith, C. Hadley, 1910-2004.
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1964-1975
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0.22 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2018.0009
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of approximately 209 images taken by C. Hadley Smith pertaining to Schweizer Aircraft Corporation.
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Myhra, David
- Dates:
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1913 -1998
bulk 1982-1988
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7.91 Linear feet (20 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.1999.0065
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection contains interviews with Reimar and Walter Horten that were recorded by David Myhra.
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O'Neill, Gerard
- Dates:
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1940s-1993
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26.22 Cubic feet (75 Boxes)
35.14 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2014.0005
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
Gerard Kitchen O'Neill (1927-1992) was an experimental physicist, educator, inventor, entrepreneur, writer and novelist.
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Nickse, Hugo
Johnson, Hanford
Comstock, Cheney and Co.
Pratt, Read and Company
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1839-1990
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84 Cubic feet (104 boxes, 28 oversize folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0320
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Records documenting Pratt, Read and Company; its early competitor and later partner, Comstock, Cheney and Company; and a number of predecessor, subsidiary and related companies. Other topics include the late 19th century African ivory trade and Pratt, Read's production of troop-carrying gliders during World War II.
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1906-1948
bulk 1907-1928
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0.5 Cubic feet ((1 box))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0079
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
The collection contains letters, telegrams, brochures, photographs and miscellaneous ephemera pertaining to Orville and Wilbur Wright. Included with the correspondence are letters written to William J. Hammer, who was an aeronautical pioneer and associated with the Wright Brothers, as well as other individuals including C. R. Peterkin. Additional i...
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Groenhoff, Hans
- Dates:
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1933-1975
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5.27 Cubic feet (41 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0359
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
Hans Groenhoff (1906-1985) was a celebrated American aviation photographer from the 1930s through the 1960s, also working as a pilot, journalist, editor, correspondent, and—in his retirement years—as an aviation tourism publicist for the Bahamas. This collection of 25,550 images consists of Groenhoff's collection of negatives and transparencies, spanning his career from 1933 to 1975.