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Tyrrell, Henry Grattan, 1867-1948
Tyrrell, Mary Maude Knox
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1886-1941
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2.3 Cubic feet (11 boxes, 1 oversize folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0948
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Manuscripts, correspondence, business records, newspaper clippings and scrapbooks documenting the career of Henry Grattan Tyrrell, an early-twentieth-century civil engineer and bridge builder who was also a prolific self-published author of hundreds of journal articles and several books. Subjects include aesthetic bridge design, history of bridges, design of movable bridges, and the economical design of factories, shops, and mill buildings.
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Edward Wellman Serrell Aeronautical Papers
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Serrell, Edward Wellman
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1865-1867
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0.73 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2011.0040
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
The Edward Wellman Serrell Aeronautical Papers contains material related to the efforts, during and after the American Civil War, of Brigadier General E. W. Serrell of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to design and build the Valomotive, a steam-powered helicopter.
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Tilton, Edward Lee, III.
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1950s-2000s
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10.45 Cubic feet ((9 boxes))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2014.0014
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of approximately 8.86 cubic feet of records relating to Edward Lee Tilton, III's career in the aerospace field. The bulk of the material pertains to Tilton's time at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), although Tilton's time at GE and the MITRE Corporation are represented as well. Types of material in ...
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Philip Carey Manufacturing Company (Lockland, Ohio).
Beberdick, Frank H.
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1933-1988
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1.5 Cubic feet (2 boxes, 8 oversize folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0956
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Records of the Borsig Steam Engines installed at the Philip Carey Manufacturing Company, Lockland, Ohio. The papers include engine logs, drawings, an index to the drawings (in German), articles, and black-and-white photographs.
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J. & W. Jolly Company.
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ca. 1880-1924.
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2.4 Cubic feet (3 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1009
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
These records document the activities of the J. & W. Jolly Company of Holyoke, Massachusetts. Included are turbine test reports from the testing flume of the Holyoke Water Power Company, 1890-1912; photographs of vertical water turbine assemblies and parts, ca 1880; a record of wheels, and turbines, ca1896-1921; and tracings of governors for turbin...
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American Bank Note Company
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1860-1987
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4 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1285
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection includes correspondence with various banks and foreign governments, especially those of Canadian provinces, regarding their banknotes or postal stamps; client files, mostly with various companies that contracted with American Bank Note Company to engrave their stock certificates, but also including files regarding two engravers, Herm...
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Looney, Charles Thomas George, 1906-1987
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1917-1971.
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9.1 Cubic feet (29 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1084
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The papers of Charles T. G. Looney contain handbooks, lectures, manuals, pamphlets, regulations reports, and research bulletins on structural design, concrete and steel materials testing, impact and stress studies, bridges, earthquakes, and erosion, building codes, waterpower, mathematical calculations, professional associations, and related engine...
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Brooks, Cuyler W.
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1934-1962
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1.3 Cubic feet (5 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1059
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents the engineering career of Cuyler W. Brooks, who worked on projects including dams, mills, and water and power plants, many of them overseas and particularly in South America. The papers include project files, proposals, drawings, specifications, contracts, correspondence, and articles.
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Hammond Coal Company.
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1937-1954.
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3 Cubic feet (12 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1003
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents the business activities of the Hammond Coal Company. It includes correspondence, "bootleg" registrations, reports on mine inspections, equipment inventories, grievances, financial records, production reports, contracts, employee information, accident and injury reports, and payroll ledgers. Also included are papers relating...
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Wood, Charles Edwards, 1876-1954
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undated
- Size:
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0.15 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1114
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
An album of photographs taken during the construction of the Panama Canal. Subjects of the photographs include the earliest digging, tree removal, mosquito control, locks, equipment, Wood's family, a fire in Colon that occurred during the building of the Canal, and the first boats to use the Canal. Photographs include images of the Gatun Dam and lo...
