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Dodge Manufacturing Co.
Missionary Catechists of Divine Providence.
Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Division of [former name], NMAH, SI.
Work and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI
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1886-1931.
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18 Cubic feet (37 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1013
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Lantern slides relating to various engineering and mining subjects.
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Pratt & Whitney Company
Mechanisms, Division of.
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1897-1906.
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0.6 Cubic feet (1,box.)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0093
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Scrapbook kept by the Pratt & Whitney Company, Hartford, Connecticut, manufacturers of general purpose machine tools; contains correspondence, price lists and quotes, and sales literature from U.S. and foreign companies to Pratt and Whitney in reply to requests for information and prices of machinery and tools; copies of business cards from U.S. an...
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Work and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI
Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company
Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Division of [former name], NMAH, SI.
History of Technology, Division of, NMAH, SI
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1881-1950
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99.3 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0977
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
These records of the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company of East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, contain photographs of gas engines, steam turbines, machine tools, foundry and manufacturing methods, and automobile engines, 1896-1921; instruction books, bulletins, and catalogs, 1889-1950; engine lists for compound, junior compound, and standar...
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Gerber Scientific Instrument Company Records
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Gerber, H. Joseph, 1924-1996
Gerber Scientific Instrument Company (Hartford, Conn.).
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1911 - 1999
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75 Cubic feet (182 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0929
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Records document the Gerber Scientific Instrument Company, Hartford, Connecticut, and its four subsidiaries: Gerber Garment Technology, Inc., Gerber Scientific Products, Inc., Gerber Systems Corp., and Gerber Optical, Inc. Gerber Scientific designs, develops, manufactures, markets and services computer aided design and computer aided CAD/CAM systems. The records include correspondence, memoranda, product literature, trade literature, patent records, instruction manuals, proposals, engineering records, photographs, technical reports, drawings, press releases, and newspaper clippings.
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Adler, Solomon, 1901-1989
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1916-1980
bulk 1950-1966
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4.5 Cubic feet (5 boxes, 1 oversize folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1157
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The papers document independent inventor Solomon Adler's work with sewing machine technology through correspondence, photographs, notes, drawings, sketches, patents, litigation records, and printed materials. The collection provides insight into both an independent inventor's process of invention and Japanese work culture during the post-World War II period.
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Grant, George B. (George Barnard), 1849-1917
Philadelphia Bank Note Company (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Bollée, Léon, 1870-1913
Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia, Pa.)
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1873-1896
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1 Volume (approximately 70 leaves, ill., 34 cm.)
- Collection ID:
- SIL-DL.MSS001780B
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Smithsonian Libraries
Scrapbook compiled by George Barnard Grant (inventor of Grant's calculating machine), a businessman based in Lexington and Boston, Massachusetts, containing printed ephemera, machine manuals, handwritten and typescript notes and correspondence, photographs, patent applications, and other papers relating to calculating machines, inventors, the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, and Grant's patent dispute with Léon Bollée in the 1880s. Some of the other inventions and companies referenced in the scrapbook include: Baldwin's calculating machine; Reliance Machine Works (B.F. Quimby); Baldwin's arithmometer; Teasdale's calculating machine; American Type Machine Co. (Westcott type casting and setting machine); Babbage's difference engine; Warren on the Thomas De Colmar calculating machine; Warren Bros. calculating engine; Tendollaradder (Grant Calculating Machine Co.); tabulating machine of G. & E. Schuetz; the Pidgin Electric Calculating Machine Co.; Webb's adding machine; Sir William Thomson's harmonic analyzer; L. Bollée's calculating machine; Grant's ciphering hand-organ; and Hattersley composing and distributing machines.
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Work and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI
Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Division of [former name], NMAH, SI.
Gilman Manufacturing Company. (Janesville, Wisconsin)
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1930s
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0.33 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1057
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
An album of photographs of mining equipment manufactured by Gilman Manufacturing Company, Janesville, Wisconsin, including factory scenes and forges.
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Christian Heurich Brewing Company (Washington, D.C.)
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1883 - 1913
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2 Cubic feet (7 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1104
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists of three unbound volumes of invoices, orders, and receipts from manufacturers and importers of beer-related supplies purchased by Christian Heurich Brewing Company of Washington, D.C., 1883-1913.
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1890-1948
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1 Cubic foot (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1446
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists of photographs and advertisements related to women working in industry dating from 1890 to 1948.
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Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
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1848-1948
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0.9 Cubic feet (consisting of 2 boxes.)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Abrasive
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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: Abrasive Industry 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