Robert W. Kearns Papers
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Creators:
-
Kearns, Robert W.
Kearns, Timothy
Brown, Brian Ivan
Quan, John
More … - Dates:
-
1963 - 1999
- Size:
-
8.5 Cubic feet (24 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1406
- Repository:
-
Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents the inventive career of physicist and engineer Robert W. Kearns. Kearns invented and patented in 1967 the windshield wiper system with intermittent operation (US 3,351,836), among other inventions. The papers include notebooks, correspondence, reports, memoranda, photographs, patents, drawings, and trade literature.
Found In
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Creators:
-
United States. National Bureau of Standards
- Dates:
-
circa 1917-1933
- Size:
-
0.15 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0217
- Repository:
-
Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Documents relating to early development of radio aids to aerial navigation, mostly on behalf of the U.S. military services.
Found In
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Creators:
-
Brown, F.C. (Fay Cluff)
- Dates:
-
1902 - 1964
- Size:
-
4.5 Cubic feet (17 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0693
- Repository:
-
Archives Center, National Museum of American History
F.C. Brown was a physicist and inventor who created and supervised the development of education exhibits, most notably as organizing director of the New York Museum of Science and Industry (part of the Museums of the Peaceful Arts), 1926-1931. He was also curator of physics exhibits at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry, 1932-1937. Much of Brown's scientific research focused on the element selenium. He invented the phonopticon, an improvement on the optophone (invented by Fournier d'Albe, 1912). Material focuses on Dr. Brown's professional life: correspondence, photographs, photo albums, scrapbooks, and ephemera from the positions he held and research he conducted. Very little personal information is included.
Found In
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Creators:
-
Science, Medicine and Society, Division of (NMAH, SI).
Huskey, Harry D.
Larson, Harry
Rutland, Dave
More … - Dates:
-
1946-1952
- Size:
-
0.5 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1217
- Repository:
-
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.
Found In
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Creators:
-
Meggers, William F., 1888-1966
- Dates:
-
1918
- Size:
-
1.34 Cubic Feet ((1 records center box) (1 flatbox))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0280
- Repository:
-
National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of one photograph album and glass plates consisting of aerial photography of Washington D.C., 1918. There are also shots of the pilots and the aircraft.
Found In
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Creators:
-
Neill, Thomas Taylor, 1903-1988
- Dates:
-
1926-1972
bulk 1938-1943
- Size:
-
17.25 Cubic feet ((2 legal document boxes) (15 records center boxes))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0181
- Repository:
-
National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection contains the research material that Neill used in compiling his book. The material consists of correspondence and reports dealing with inspection, specifications, and performance tests of automobile and aircraft engines and fuels from 1926 to 1944. There are also reports, articles, and log books of specific engine types, both aerona...
Found In
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Creators:
-
Barus, Carl, 1856-1935
- Dates:
-
1891, 1893
- Size:
-
0.25 cu. ft. (1 half document box)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 7214
- Repository:
-
Smithsonian Institution Archives
These papers consist of a typescript of the article prepared by Barus and a copy of an 1891 report by the Great Britain Board of Trade Committee on the subject.
Found In
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Creators:
-
Rabinow, Jacob, 1910-
Engineering and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI.
- Dates:
-
1947-1990
- Size:
-
5.5 Cubic feet (14 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0403
- Repository:
-
Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents three major areas of Jacob Rabinow's work in improvement of electronic and other devices: phonograph record players, optical character recognition (reading machines) and automatic self regulation of watches and clocks.
Found In
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Creators:
-
Electricity and Modern Physics, Division of, NMAH, SI.
Marton, Ladislaus Laszlo, 1901-1979 (physicist)
- Dates:
-
1932 - 1970
- Size:
-
4.66 Cubic feet (14 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...
Found In
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Creators:
-
Smithsonian Institution
- Dates:
-
1847-1942
- Size:
-
58 cu. ft. (30 record storage boxes) (24 document boxes) (6 non- standard oversize boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 93
- Repository:
-
Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records include ledgers, account books, bills, daybooks, journals, receipted vouchers, records of payment, requisitions, cash books, and other fiscal records documenting the Smithsonian's congressional appropriations. These records deal with the financial affairs of the following Smithsonian bureaus: United States National Museum, A...