Mergenthaler Linotype Company Records
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Mergenthaler Linotype Co.
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1886-1997
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108 Cubic feet (257 boxes, 1 map-folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0666
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
These records document primarily the history of typeface development at the Mergenthaler Linotype Company of Baltimore, Maryland. The company supplied most of the typesetting machines used in the printing industry, both in America and worldwide. As changing technology ended the usefulness of the linotype machine the company pioneered new computer-driven, photo typesetting machines.
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Henderson, Daniel
Hashimoto, Kazuo
- Dates:
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1968-2002
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3 Cubic feet (9 boxes, 1 oversized folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0875
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists of photocopied American, Japanese, German, and French patents; photocopied articles, advertisements, news releases, user manuals, buyer's guides, company analyses, technical references, and an oversize timeline documenting the history and development of cellular phones and related wireless devices.
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Bagnall, James
Orensberg, Arthur
NATCO, Inc. (National Company, Inc.)
Mainberger, Walter
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1955 - 1968
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5.5 Cubic feet (16 boxes, 3 oversize folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0547
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The records document the development of the first commercial atomic clocks by the National Company, Inc., (NATCO) of Malden, Massachusetts, a company known for producing specialized electronic equipment. The records include blueprints, technical drawings and schematics, technical and research reports, instruction manuals, photographs, and marketing materials.
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Rice, Robert B., 1900-1976
Engineering and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI.
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1915 - 1954
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30.1 Cubic feet (81 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0322
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Personal papers and correspondence (ca. 1946-1953) of Rice; publications, mostly on Diesel engines, their components and technical problems; material from Rice's academic career; directories of Diesel engine manufacturers and brochures describing their products; technical manuals and reprints of technical articles.
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Borasky, Rubin, 1910-1988
Schaeffer, Asa Arthur
Borasky, Charlotte S., Mrs.
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1930-1988
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5 Cubic feet (16 boxes
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- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0452
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This material was collected by Mr. Borasky over a long period during which he worked in the field of electron microscopy. Borasky's correspondence with many of the major figures in the field is included. Much of this correspondence was initiated by Borasky as a means of documenting the history of electron microscopy that he attempted to write ove...
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Medical Sciences, Division of, NMAH, SI.
Parke, Davis Company
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1867 - 1971
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179 Cubic feet (177 boxes, 21 map folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0001
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Includes engineer's files of equipment used in the Detroit plant; blueprints and linen drawings of the Detroit plant, including building floor layouts, equipment & placement, and computer readouts of the linen drawings; plant operating manuals from the Detroit factory; incomplete sets of the "Parke-Davis Review" and "Parke-Davis Notes"; photographs...
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Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. Satellite Tracking Program
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1957-1983
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79.59 cu. ft. (64 record storage boxes) (2 16x20 boxes) (30 blueprint storage boxes) (11 oversize folders)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 478
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This record unit consists mostly of records documenting the administration, operation and scientific work of the STP Baker-Nunn camera and laser-ranging stations. The majority of the files were created after the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) reorganization in 1973 and maintained by the Radio and Geoastronomy Division. The re...
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Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. Contracts and Procurement Office
- Dates:
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1956-1984
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36.5 cu. ft. (36 record storage boxes) (1 document box)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 522
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records primarily document the administration of contracts and grants supporting the Satellite Tracking Program, Project Celescope, the Meteor Research Program, and the Gravitational Redshift Space Probe Experiment. Also included are files documenting other contracts and grants, mostly with the National Aeronautics and Space Administrati...
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Revista Aérea Latinoamericana
- Dates:
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1937-2003
- Size:
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61.8 Cubic feet
158 Boxes
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2003.0028
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
The subject reference files of Revista Aérea Latinoamericana regarding aviation in Latin America during 1937-2003.
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Pierce, Harold Fisher, 1889-1963
- Dates:
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1909-1985
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3.27 Cubic feet (4 legal document boxes; 1 legal half-size document box; 3 flat boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2014.0044
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
The Harold F. Pierce collection consists of documents relating to Pierce's career in aviation medicine, particularly his service as a flight surgeon in World War I and World War II and his work on the Henderson Pierce rebreathing apparatus. Materials include correspondence, photographs, military records, certificates, technical drawings, and news clippings.