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Land indenture between David Wilkin, his wife Ann, and Jonathan Germain, Blacksmith, of Newark in White Clay Creek Hundred and County of Newcastle on Delaware, 1763 May 17

Title: Land indenture between David Wilkin, his wife Ann, and Jonathan Germain, Blacksmith, of Newark in White Clay Creek Hundred and County of Newcastle on Delaware 1763 May 17

A 1763 deed of sale for a tract of 223 acres in the town of Newark, New Castle County, Delaware. It includes a long history of the people who have owned the property back to 1702 and a detailed description of the boundaries of the property.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (3 p.)

http://library.udel.edu/static/purl.php?mss0098_0171 View

Bondi, Hermann. Oral history interview with Hermann Bondi, 1978 March 20.

Title: Oral history interview with Hermann Bondi, 1978 March 20.

Early life in Vienna, family and religion; atmosphere in Vienna in early 1930s; growth of interest in mathematical physics; anti-Semitism at University of Vienna; influence of history teacher and rejection of religion; influence of reading Arthur S. Eddington and James Jeans in the mid-1930s; further study in England and contact with Eddington; Trinity College, 1937-1940; study with Abraham S. Besicovich; collapse of plebiscite and family in Vienna; internment during World War II; graduate study with Harold Jeffreys: naval radar, 1942; associates during war and circle at University of Cambridge; development of radar research team with Thomas Gold and Fred Hoyle; developing astronomical interests, 1943; early research on accretion and evolution; cosmology; general relativity; contact with Freeman Dyson, James Lighthill and William H. McCrea; work in theoretical stellar structure; the problem of red giants; Hoyle's theory of stellar evolution; Hoyle-Lyttleton red giant models; growing interests in cosmology and discussion of Richard Chase Tolman and Edwin P. Hubble; the Steady State Cosmology; reactions to Steady State theory; gravitational theory and relativity circa 1955. Also prominently mentioned are: Christine Bondi, Abraham Frankel, George Cunliffe McVittie, Maurice H.L. Pryce, Otto Struve; and Trinity College (University of Cambridge).

ArchivalResource: Sound recordings: 2 sound cassettes (ca. 2.0 hr.), 1 session.Transcript: 40 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79918217 View

McCrea, William. Papers 1831-1849.

Title: Papers 1831-1849.

Letters, 1831-1849, to William McCrea, Dayton, Urbana, and Christiansburg, O., relating largely to merchandising, but also containing references to the construction of turnpikes and canals.

ArchivalResource: 34 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/6634987 View

Center for History of Physics (American Institute of Physics). History of Modern Astrophysics Archives, 1976-1979.

Title: History of Modern Astrophysics Archives, 1976-1979.

ArchivalResource: 5 boxes (2 linear ft.) ; 347 microfiche ; 67 microfilm reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122474028 View

Gold, Thomas. Oral history interview with Thomas Gold, 1978 April 1.

Title: Oral history interview with Thomas Gold, 1978 April 1.

Childhood in Germany and family background; competitive spirit. War years; internment and war work on radar with Herman Bondi and Frederick Hoyle, 1942-1945. At University of Cambridge; development of theory of hearing and steady state theory; at Greenwich Observatory, 1952-1956; research on lunar surface and terrestrial dynamics; positions at Harvard and Cornell Universities; involvement with Arecibo Observatory; involvement with governmental agencies including National Science Foundation (NSF) and National Aeronautic and Space Organization (NASA); changes in government funding. Development and reception of steady state theory. Also contains a 29-page interview conducted by the BBC, and a 56-page appendix, The Pandit Nehru Election Campaign for Chancellor of University of Cambridge, 1950. Also prominently mentioned are: Georg von Békésy, Ken Bowles, Oscar Buneman, Arthur Clarke, George Darwin, Herbert Dingle, Arthur Stanley Eddington, Otto Robert Frisch, Bill Gordon, Fred Hoyle, Harold Jeffreys, E.C. Jordan, William Thomson Kelvin, Hyman Levy, Raymond Lyttleton, Malik, William Hunter McCrea, Charles W. McCutchen, Donald Howard Menzel, Walter Mondale, Gordon Pettengill, R.J. Pumphrey, J.A. Ratcliffe, Martin Ryle, Carl Sagan, R.W. Shaw, Harold Spencer-Jones, Carl Friedrich Weizsäcker, Richard van der Riet Woolley; Cornell University, Great Britain Admiralty, Rationalist Society, Skylab, Trinity College (University. Of Cambridge), University of Cambridge, and Zuoz College.

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 87 p. plus appendices.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78228370 View

McCrea, William Hunter. Oral history interview with William Hunter McCrea, 1978 September 22.

Title: Oral history interview with William Hunter McCrea, 1978 September 22.

Covers his family background, upbringing, education at the University of Cambridge, and positions at University of Edinburgh, Imperial College, University of Belfast, Royal Holloway College and University of Sussex. The scientific topics discussed include: the development of Newtonian cosmology, the origins and development of steady-state cosmology; work on theories of the solar system. Also prominently mentioned are: Philip Abelson, Luis Walter Alvarez, Hans Albrecht Bethe, Raymond Thayer Birge, Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, Niels Henrik David Bohr, Ira Sprague Bowen, Sydney Chapman, Karl Taylor Compton, Edward Uhler Condon, Charles Galton Darwin, Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, Kenneth Dodd, Colonel Dudley, Arthur Stanley Eddington, Robley Dunglison Evans, Enrico Fermi, Richard Phillips Feynman, Ralph Howard Fowler, Friedman, Wolfgang Gentner, Thomas Gold, Sterling E. Hendricks, Fred Hoyle, Edwin Powell Hubble, Henry Hulme, James Jeans, W.O. Kermack, Joseph Larmor, Charles Christian Lauritsen, Ernest Orlando Lawrence, George Lemâitre, Milton Stanley Livingston, Howard J. Lucas, Walter Michels, Edward Arthur Milne, Joe Morris, Arthur A. Noyes, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Linus Pauling, Firth Pierce, George Placzek, Harry Hemley Plaskett, Samuel Ruben, Henry Norris Russell, Ryokishi Sagane, Samson, Erwin Schrödinger, Emilio Gino Segrè, George Paget Thomson, Robert Jamison Van de Graaff, Vladimir Iosifovich Veksler, Warren. Weaver, Edmund T. Whittaker, Robert Rathbun Wilson, Charles Thomas Zahn; California Institute of Technology, Cambridge Radio Survey, Germany Kriegsmarine, Great Britain Science Research Council, Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Radiation Laboratory, National Institute of Theoretical Astronomy, Princeton University, Proceedings of the Royal Society, Royal Astronomical Society, Universität Göttingen, University of California at Berkeley, University of Edinburgh, and Zeitschrift für Physik.

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 38 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/77698909 View

McVittie, George C. (George Cunliffe). Oral history interview with George C. McVittie, 1978 March 21.

Title: Oral history interview with George C. McVittie, 1978 March 21.

Early home life and schooling in Turkey; years at University of Edinburgh and University of London after fall of Smyrna, 1922; work in London with father; entrance and experiences at University of Cambridge; contact with Arthur S. Eddington and scientific interests in mathematical relativity and stellar structure; University of Leeds, 1930-1934; work in general relativity; later academic positions; work in World War II; move to University of Illinois and development of radio astronomy; Steady State Cosmology; general views on cosmology; Channel 37. Also prominently mentioned are: Ludwig Franz Benedikt Biermann, Charles Galton Darwin, Katherine Darwin, Herbert Dingle, Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, Ralph Howard Fowler, Stephen Hawking, Werner Heisenberg, Edwin Powell Hubble, E.C. Jordan, Henning Larsen, George Lemâitre, William Hunter McCrea, Edward Arthur Milne, Bertrand Russell, R.A. Sampson, Allan Sandage, Harlow Shapley, Charles P. Snow, George W. Stoddard, George W. Swenson, Jr., A.H. Taub, George Temple, Albert Edward Whitford, Edmund T. Whittaker, Jack Whittaker; Blackford Hill Observatory, Great Britain Post Office, Green Bank Observatory, International Telecommunications Union, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften, Queen Mary College (University of London), Royal Astronomical Society, United States Federal Communications Commission, University of Edinburgh, University of Illinois, University. Of Kent at Canterbury, and Vermillion River Observatory.

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 69 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/84131985 View

Sciama, D. W. (Dennis William), 1926-. Oral history interview with Denis William Sciama, 1978 April 14.

Title: Oral history interview with Denis William Sciama, 1978 April 14.

Background and undergraduate years at Trinity College, University of Cambridge, and later return to Cambridge to study relativity under Paul A. M. Dirac, against father's wishes. Work with a Trinity fellowship, 1952-1958, alongside Herman Bondi, Thomas Gold, Fred Hoyle and Raymond Lyttleton, developing and extending steady state theory and doing other broad-scale theory. Move to University of Oxford, 1970, after other posts. Interest in Mach's Principle; abandonment of steady state theory; work of student Stephen Hawking on black holes; development and social context of cosmology. Also prominently mentioned are: Jacob David Bekenstein, Brandon Carter, Lidia Dina, Arthur Stanley Eddington, Albert Einstein, George Ellis, Gilman, William Hunter McCrea, Roger Penrose, Derek Raine, Martin J. Rees, Martin Ryle, Harold Spencer-Jones, Ludwig Wittgenstein; Cornell University, and Kings College (University of London).

ArchivalResource: Sound recordings: 2 sound cassettes (ca. 2.0 hrs), 1 session.Transcript: 34 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82743780 View

International Astronomical Union. Colloquium (37th : 1976 : Paris, France). Session on history of astronomy [sound recording]

Title: Session on history of astronomy [sound recording]

Speakers include: Bengt Stromgren and William H. McCrea.

ArchivalResource: 1 sound cassette (1 hr.) : analog, mono. ; 4 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/154305307 View

History of Modern Astrophysics Collection, 1849-1979

Title: History of Modern Astrophysics Collection 1849-1979

During the mid- to late-1970s, the American Institute of Physics sponsored a project to conduct oral history interviews documenting the recent history of astrophysics, eventually accumulating over 400 hours of fully transcribed and edited audio tapes. The project organizers placed a particular emphasis on documenting the various subdisciplines of cosmology and astronomical spectroscopy. The History of Modern Astrophysics Collection is an important resource for the history of astrophysics in the latter half of the twentieth century. The collection is arranged in two series, the first consisting of transcripts of 52 interviews of 46 astrophysicists recorded between 1976 and 1979 by members of the Center for the History of Physics at the American Institute of Physics. The second series consists of 65 reels of microfilm of significant sets of correspondence for individual astrophysicists. The original oral history tape recordings are housed at AIP.

ArchivalResource: 2.0 Linear feet; 2 linear feet; 67 reels of microfilm

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.Ms.Coll.13-ead.xml View