Captured German Technical Documents (Technical Intelligence Center Film)
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United States. Navy
Germany
- Dates:
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1941-1946
- Size:
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2 microfilm reels
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0409
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of microfilmed translations of documents which were captured in Germany and compiled and microfilmed by the US Navy. The documents cover a variety of topics including long-range bombers, aircraft propulsion, infrared research, optics, turbomachines, flutter research, torpedoes, radar, as well as other technical topics.
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Germany
Japan
United States. Army Air Forces
- Dates:
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[ca. 1939-1945]
- Size:
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3,732 microfilm reels
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0431
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of the Air Force master microfilm of captured German and Japanese documents pertaining to aviation. The documents cover a wide variety of subjects, including aircraft and engines, flight test reports, proposals, and engineering studies. English translation is provided for some documents.
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- Creators:
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Itek Corporation
- Dates:
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1969-1971
- Size:
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0.79 Cubic Feet (2 containers)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2018.0007
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of technical manuals and documents relating to the Apollo Panoramic Cmaera (APC).
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- Creators:
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Stits, Ray
- Dates:
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1940s-1960s
- Size:
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12.6 Cubic feet (11 boxes and 4 tubes)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2019.0024
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of approximately 12 cubic feet of photographs (construction, static, and inflight), blueprints (originals and working copies), and engineering and flight test data Stits aircraft.
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Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (Ohio)
- Dates:
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1915-1955
- Size:
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464.34 Cubic feet ((426 records center boxes))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0428
- Repository:
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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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Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
- Dates:
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1819-1974
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3.55 Cubic feet (consisting of 7 boxes, 1 folder, 3 oversized folders, 1 map case folder, 1 flat box (partial), plus digital images of some collection material.)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Telephone
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
A New York bookseller, Warshaw assembled this collection over nearly fifty years. The Warshaw Collection of Business Americana: Accounting and Bookkeeping forms part of the Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, Subseries 1.1: Subject Categories. The Subject Categories subseries is divided into 470 subject categories based on those created by Mr. Warshaw. These subject categories include topical subjects, types or forms of material, people, organizations, historical events, and other categories. An overview to the entire Warshaw collection is available here: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana
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Rotorway Aircraft, Inc (Rotorway International)
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[ca. 1970s]
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0.45 Cubic feet ((1 legal document box))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.1988.0033
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of the documentation Rotorway Scorpion Too helicopter kit purchased by Dr. Harold C. Theurer in the early 1970s and built by him as N18849. The material consists of blueprints, weight and balance requirements, Federal Aviation Administration forms, rotor adjustment procedures, Theurer's handwritten notes, a price list, part...
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Peenemunde Research and Development Station
- Dates:
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1940-1945, circa 1950
bulk 1940-1945
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1.58 Cubic feet (4 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0192
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
The German Army and Navy experimental station at Peenemunde, on the North Sea coast of Germany, was established in the mid-1930s to continue the rocketry work begun at Kummersdorf in 1930.
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Hopper, Grace Murray, 1906-1992
Physical Sciences, Division of (NMAH, Smithsonian Institution).
- Dates:
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1944-1965
- Size:
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2.5 Cubic feet (7 boxes, 1 map-folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0324
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The material includes technical notes, operating instructions and descriptions relating to projects which Hopper participated in at Harvard during and after World War II and later in the private sector. These projects involved the creation of the Navy's Mark I, II and III "mechanical calculators" (the fore runners of today's computers) and the UNI...
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Emmons, Richard H., 1919-2005
- Dates:
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circa 1954-1998
- Size:
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4 cu. ft. (4 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 07-154
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
Richard H. Emmons (1919-2005), astronomer, engineer, and proponent of astronomy education, taught astronomy and physics at Kent State University and later worked as an engineer for Goodyear Aerospace Corporation. He was well-known for the planetariums he established, over 23 in all. Emmons was also the team leader for the North Canton Moo...