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Mandragos, Nicholas C., 1896- (engineer)
Mandragos, Frieda
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1905-1964, undated
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2.5 Cubic feet (10 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0484
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The papers of immigrant engineer Nicholas C. Mandragos.
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Bier, Peter J.
- Dates:
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1915-1970
bulk 1934-1959
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3.3 Cubic feet (7 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0973
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Peter J. Bier, born in Hungary, immigrated to the United States in 1904. Bier worked as an engineer for the Bureau of Reclamation in the Department of the Interior from 1923-1954, and continued to work as a consultant in the field after retirement. The collection includes materials related to his work with the Bureau of Reclamation, including project materials, drawings, designs, and inspection reports and data, along with materials documenting his time as an engineering consultant.
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Foundation Company (The).
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1887-1969
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9 Cubic feet (17 boxes, 28 map-folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0974
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
These records include sketches, drawings, blueprints, contracts, and reports relating to highway and railroad bridges, tunnels, subways, mine shafts, canals and waterways, dams, concrete buildings, concrete construction, derricks and derrick barges, cranes, caissons and caisson construction, air locks, pumps, jacks, engines, and turbines; also phot...
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Holly Manufacturing Company
Worthington Corporation
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1840-1982
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18 Cubic feet (54 boxes, 1 map folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0916
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This collection documents the products and business activities of the Worthington Corporation, its predecessors and its subsidiaries. The records focus on the products that the Worthington Corporation produced, including steam pumps, hydraulic pumps and gas engines.
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Condon, Robert B.
Condon, Robert Scofield, 1896-1973 (engineer)
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circa 1924-1973
- Size:
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3 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0428
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
A collection of correspondence, photographs, and copies of patents issued to inventor Robert Scofield Condon.
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Calumet and Hecla Mining Company.
Leavitt, Erasmus D., 1836-1916
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1871-1917
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20.4 Cubic feet (3 boxes, 82 folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0966
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Tracings on linen of steam engines of all types, pumping, histing, air compressing, mining, material handling, power transmission, mine structures, mining machinery, and buildings by Erasmus D. Leavitt, Jr. for Calumet Heclas, Inc. of Calumet, Michigan.
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1905-1973
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1 cu. ft. (1 record storage box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 06-135
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of photographs, captions, and press releases related to engineering and engineering research. The files were originally compiled by and for the journalists who worked for the organization Science Service (see Record Unit 7091) from the 1920s through the 1960s. These informational "morgue" files were organized in th...
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Eisler Engineering Company.
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1885 - 1988
bulk 1920-1950s
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30 Cubic feet (49 boxes, 25 oversize folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0734
- Repository:
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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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Bathe, Greville
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bulk 1933-1944
1893-1985
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5 Cubic feet (12 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0970
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Papers contain archival materials comprising Bathe's research on Oliver Evans (1755-1819), an American engineer engaged in the development of steam engines. The collection includes copies of letters, design drawings, pamphlets and a book written by Evans, patents, a scrapbook, articles, genealogical information, Evans's will, and writings by Bathe ...
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Fairchild Aircraft Corp
- Dates:
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1919-1980
- Size:
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277.95 Cubic feet (255 records center boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.1989.0060
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of historical files on FI, its predecessors, and subsidiaries. The material consists primarily of historical/public relations material, including photographs and brochures, but also includes significant amounts of business records for FEAC, Kreider-Reisner, Hiller, Republic, Ranger, Stratos, and Swearingen. The collection also documents Fairchild's joint ventures with Fokker, Pilatus, and other aircraft manufacturers. The material also includes an extensive negative collection as well as film and videotape libraries.