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Beakes, William Edgar
Harris, Charles Cohill, 1898- (radio engineer)
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circa 1906-1976
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1 Cubic foot (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0049
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Correspondence, notes, articles, and photographs assembled by Harris on the history of the United Fruit Company and Tropical Radio Telegraph Company (TRT), 1904-1961. Also includes manuscript histories of companies; material on the application of teletypewriters to radio circuits; blueprints, schematics, reports, and manuals concerning the technica...
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Work and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI
- Dates:
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1922-1926.
- Size:
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0.3 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1029
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Sixty-six pages from a photograph album compiled by an anonymous photographer, documenting the Philadelphia-Camden or Delaware River Bridge, now called the Benjamin Franklin Bridge.
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Work and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI
Waddington's Antique Auction House (Toronto, Ontario, Canada).
Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Division of [former name], NMAH, SI.
- Dates:
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1912
- Size:
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0.15 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1031
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
A photograph album documenting an irrigation project on the Snake River in Arizona, precise location unknown. The images depict a dam, construction camp, excavation, ferries, cranes, pumping stations, canals and personnel.
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Work and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI
Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Division of [former name], NMAH, SI.
Western Electric Company.
- Dates:
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1925.
- Size:
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0.15 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1036
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This album, prepared for a Bell System conference in Chicago, 1925, contains black-and-white photographs of the Hawthorne, Illinois Works of the Western Electric Company including views of buildings and grounds, offices, laboratories, shops, and the rod and wire mill.
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Franklin Machine Company Providence, Rhode Island
Corliss, George H. (George Henry), 1817-1888
- Dates:
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1930.
- Size:
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0.3 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1016
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection consists of an album illustrating the history of the Corliss Steam Engine.
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Dodge, W.C.
Clark, Alexander Melville
Work and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI
- Dates:
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1877
- Size:
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0.15 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1017
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
A British patent issued to Alexander Melville Clark for an improved process for preventing the accumulation of carbon in retorts used for the distillation of carbureted hydrogen. There is a wax seal attached to the end of the patent.
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Work and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI
Pennsylvania Steel Company.
Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Division of [former name], NMAH, SI.
- Dates:
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1905-1914
- Size:
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0.15 Cubic feet (1 box)
1 Album
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1024
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
An album of railroad construction photographs documenting numerous unidentified, projects.
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T.B. Cryer Company
Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Division of [former name], NMAH, SI.
History of Technology, Division of, NMAH, SI
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1890 - 1950
- Size:
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2.5 Cubic feet (5 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1085
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
These records contain plans and specifications for plumbing and heating systems installed in a residence, schools, and public buildings in Newark, Orange, West Orange, Rahway, and Montclair, New Jersey.
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Work and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI
Mechanical Engineering, Division of [former name], NMAH, SI.
Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad.
- Dates:
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1880-1890
- Size:
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0.6 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1073
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection documents the location and existence of bridges for several of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway lines.
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History of Technology, Division of, NMAH, SI
Work and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI
Northern Pacific Railway Company
Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Division of [former name], NMAH, SI.
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1881-1949
- Size:
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0.16 Cubic feet (1 box
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- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1067
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists of photoprints documenting the construction of the Northern Pacific Railway.