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Arthur Gleason Papers, 1863-1931, (bulk 1900-1923)

Title: Arthur Gleason Papers 1863-1931 (bulk 1900-1923)

Journalist, editor, and social reformer. Family and general correspondence, writings, subject files, clippings, and printed matter relating to Gleason's editorial work with , , and ; his experiences as a journalist and medic in World War I; his activities on behalf of the British labor movement, Bureau of Industrial Research, United Mine Workers, and socialism; and his interest in topics such as immigration, Jews in the United States, American isolationism, the Irish question, and religious groups and sects in Southern California. Cosmopolitan The Survey Collier's Weekly

ArchivalResource: 3,000 items; 13 containers; 5.2 linear feet; 8 microfilm reels

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009002 View

Steinmetz, Charles Proteus, 1865-1923. Chas. Steinmetz.

Title: Chas. Steinmetz. [1889-1893]

ArchivalResource: 47 p. ; 27 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/639339033 View

Myra Page Papers, 1910-1990

Title: Myra Page Papers, 1910-1990

Writer, union activist, and communist Dorothy Markey (nee Dorothy Page Gary) was born in Newport News, Va., in 1897. Under the name Myra Page, Markey was an active political journalist and writer in the 1930s. In the early 1940s, she taught writing at the Writers' School sponsored by the League of American Writers in New York City. During the 1950s and 1960s, she wrote and published the juvenile biographies. Dorothy Markey died in 1993. The collection includes materials relating to the journalistic and literary activities of Dorothy Markey/Myra Page. Included are business and personal correspondence; contracts and other materials concerning the publication of her works in the United States and the Soviet Union; typed and handwritten manuscripts, newspaper clippings, notebooks, and notes relating to the writing of newspaper articles, radio plays, short stories, poems, books, and screenplays; lecture notes, handouts, student writings, and other materials relating to her writing courses; subject files relating to the American South, organized labor, progressive and radical politics, and other topics; and biographical and family materials including photographs of southern sharecroppers and people in the Soviet Union in the 1930s.

ArchivalResource: 4000; 12.0

http://www2.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/p/Page,Myra.html View

Thomson, Elihu, 1853-1937. Papers, 1853-1955.

Title: Papers, 1853-1955.

Series I (ca. 60,000 items) is currently being processed (1996). Series II (size unknown) is currently being processed (1996). Series III (3.5 linear ft.) contains legal documents, reports, specifications on inventions and patents, blueprints, programs for scientific meetings and events, and materials relating to Thomson's industrial research and personal interests. Series IV (1.5 linear ft.) contains autograph and typescript drafts, notes, comments, and page proofs on the subjects of electrical systems, welding, astronomy, and optics, among others. Series V (1 linear ft.) contains school papers, autobiographical essays, poetry, short papers on ideas and inventions, and any works that were not identified as published. Series VI (1 linear ft.) contains manuscript and typescript drafts of speeches, lectures, papers, and addresses given by Thomson at meetings of various professional scientific organizations and societies. Series VII (2 linear ft.) contains the manuscript and typescript drafts and transcripts of works by Thomson's colleagues and others, including papers, reports, journal articles, speeches, and radio addresses. A large portion of the series is biographical, produced by Thomson's friends and colleagues after his death and originally stored in two boxes labeled "Biographical Material." The complete, original manuscript of David O. Woodbury's "Elihu Thomson, Beloved Scientist" (1944) is preserved in this series as well. There are several manuscript and typescript translations of historical works in the field of optics. Produced for Thomson's friend and fellow amateur telescope maker, George Wattson Hewitt, by Florence C. and Emil P. Albrecht, these translations date ca. 1901 and focus on the works of S. Czapski, J.J. Littow, and L. Schuppmann. Series VIII (2 linear ft.) contains Thomson's high school notebooks from classes taken as a student, some industrial research notebooks, genealogy notebooks, and trip journals. Series IX (1 linear ft.) contains pencil sketches of inventions and mechanical apparatus on individual sheets of assorted shapes, sizes, and types of papers. Several files of sketches by E.W. Rice, Jr., fellow inventor and business associate of Thomson, exist in a general chronological arrangement. Series X (2 linear ft.) contains Thomson's manuscript comments and notes on his patents. Thomson describes and evaluates each invention, often detailing the slight variations and improvements in newer versions. Series XI (1.5 linear ft.) contains black and white photographs in various sizes of Thomson, family members, professional associates, events, places, and Thomson's inventions and mechanical apparatus. Series XII (.5 linear ft.) contains certificates that recognize Thomson's membership or election to many professional scientific organizations. Also in this series are three patent certificates issued to Thomson by the U.S. Patent Office. Series XIII (.5 linear ft.) contains individual clippings arranged alphabetically by subject and scrapbooks of collected clippings. The clippings include obituaries (of Thomson and colleagues), wedding announcements for Thomson's second marriage, and biographical information on Thomson and his career. The scrapbooks contain newspaper clippings and a small amount of memorabilia and photographs. Series XIV (.5 linear ft.) contains a variety of miscellaneous items collected by Thomson, his wife, and the original organizers of this collection at the APS. Several items in this series date from Thomson's youth, including his birth certificate (1853) and his Philadelphia Central High School commencement program (1870). Series XV (ca. 1937-1943) is comprised of two subseries. Subseries A contains correspondence generated during the APS Library's attempt to collect Thomson letters from his colleagues after his death. Subseries B holds inventories of manuscripts that were produced as the papers were donated.

ArchivalResource: 18.5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122624321 View

Elihu Thomson Papers, 1865-1944

Title: Elihu Thomson Papers 1865-1944

An electrical engineer, inventor, and entrepreneur, Elihu Thomson was an innovator in electrification in both a technical and corporate sense. With interests that ranged from the technical (electrical meters, high-pressure steam engines, dynamos, generators) to scientific (fused quartz optics, X-rays), Thomson acquired over 700 patents in his career, and in 1882, founded one of the early electrical corporations in the United States, the Thomson-Houston Company, which merged with the Edison Electric Company in 1892 to form the General Electric Company. The Thomson Papers are a massive and nearly comprehensive collection documenting the wide range of Thomson's scientific and technical interestsm from his electrical experiments, inventions, and patents, to his interests in astronomy, geology, and medicine, as well as his role in the development of two major corporations involved in electrification, the Thomson-Houston Electric Company and General Electric Company. Roughly three quarters of the collection is dated between 1890 and 1920 when Thomson was associated with General Electric, and was active in professional groups such as the American Institute of Electrical Engineers (AIEE), International Electrotechnical Commission. His research interests. The balance of the collection is comprised of eight boxes and five volumes relating to Thomson's patents; a series of notebooks kept at Central High School; 43 letterbooks, 1882-1936; diaries of trips to Europe; notebooks on genealogy; scrapbooks of cards, photographs, clippings, and other souvenirs; and 2 vols. of tributes on his eightieth birthday, etc.

ArchivalResource: 65.0 Linear feet; 65 linear feet

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.Ms.Coll.74-ead.xml View

Steinmetz, Charles Proteus, 1865-1923. Papers, 1922.

Title: Papers, 1922.

Correspondence with Lenin and other Soviet officials regarding the electrification of Russia. Includes a typewritten letter signed by Lenin.

ArchivalResource: 8 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50753002 View

Steinmetz, Charles Proteus, 1865-1923. The theory of relativity II / by Charles P. Steinmetz.

Title: The theory of relativity II / by Charles P. Steinmetz. [192-]

ArchivalResource: 37 leaves : ill. 27 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/427641975 View

Steinmetz, Charles Proteus, 1865-1923. Letter : Lynn, Mass., to Heinrich Lux, 1893 Oct. 25.

Title: Letter : Lynn, Mass., to Heinrich Lux, 1893 Oct. 25.

Letter from Steinmetz to his friend and socialist colleague Heinrich Lux and his wife, with salutation "Lieber Hinz & liebe Frau Hinz" and signature "Proteus" in Greek characters; he recounts his experiences since 1888, when he fled to Zürich from Germany, emigrating to the United States in 1889; includes comments on current political events and his own withdrawal from political activity; he particularly addresses his work for Eickemeyer Co. and subsequently General Electric Company, his practice of not quite total abstinence from alcohol, and the results of the repeal of the Sherman Silver Act.

ArchivalResource: 4 sheets (7 p.) ; 27 x 21 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/495727428 View

[Charles Proteus Steinmetz, biographical materials]

Title: [Charles Proteus Steinmetz, biographical materials] 1923-

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/22465370 View

Steinmetz, Charles Proteus, 1865-1923. [Check] 1904 Dec. 6, Schenectady, N.Y. [to] Empire Laundry / Charles P. Steinmetz.

Title: [Check] 1904 Dec. 6, Schenectady, N.Y. [to] Empire Laundry / Charles P. Steinmetz.

Typescript form filled in holographically ; signed. Check for $2.36 drawn on the Schenectady Trust Company made out to the Empire Laundry.

ArchivalResource: 1 leaf ; 7 x 18 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/8549055 View

General Electric Company. General Electric photograph collection, 1890-1960.

Title: General Electric photograph collection, 1890-1960.

The General Electric Photograph Collection depicts the development of the electrical industry and 20th century American life. It documents the electrification of American society, the products that drove the push for electrification, and how these products were produced, marketed, and ultimately used. It is a valuable resource for researchers in the history of technology, social history, labor relations, corporate cultures, advertising and consumerism, and a host of other subjects. Topics include: the history of electrical invention and innovation and changes in research methods and technology over time; the development of the GE Research Laboratory; the development and implementation of rural electrification; the development of many household products, including refrigerators, radios and televisions, appliances; the development of turbines, locomotives; the social economic impact of deindustrialization of Schenectady after World War II; the documentation of the immigration and Americanization of new ethnic groups to Schenectady in response to employment opportunities at GE. Some of the more prominent names represented include: Thomas A. Edison, Irving Langmuir, Charles Steinmetz.

ArchivalResource: 1.5 million images.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83823576 View

Niels Bohr Library. The Emilio Segrè visual archives, P-S, [ca. 1870]-9999.

Title: The Emilio Segrè visual archives, P-S, [ca. 1870]-9999.

An extensive collection of some 25,000 historical photographs, slides, lithographs, engravings, and other visual materials relating to the history of physics and its allied sciences. The collection focuses on American physicists and astronomers of the twentieth century, but includes many scientists in Europe and elsewhere, in other fields related to physics, and in earlier times. It contains photographs of industrial laboratories, observatories, apparatus, academic physics departments, meetings of scientific societies, etc. This record contains a partial index.

ArchivalResource: ca. 25,000 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80633304 View

Steinmetz, Charles Proteus, 1865-1923. Charles P. Steinmetz papers, 1853-1921.

Title: Charles P. Steinmetz papers, 1853-1921.

The papers include letters written in German to his sister Klara, one manuscript on motors, and 184 patents.

ArchivalResource: 1.067 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/713658808 View

Steinmetz, Charles Proteus, 1865-1923. Time book, 1889-1893.

Title: Time book, 1889-1893.

Notebook containing a day-by-day accounting of Steinmetz's days and hours worked on various projects from June 1889 to January 1893. Also contains personal notes such as "sick at home." HM 72878. The Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.

ArchivalResource: 1 bound volume, 27 cm. , 45 pages.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702487013 View

William L. Hamburger prints collection [manuscript], 1928-1940.

Title: William L. Hamburger prints collection [manuscript], 1928-1940.

Photographs were originally collected as part of the research files of the National Cyclopedia of American Biography. Subjects include Gertrude Atherton, Leopold Auer, Bernard Baruch, George Gordon Battle, Gustave Becker, Alexander Graham Bell, Edward Bok, Andrew Carnegie, Calvin Coolidge, Walter Damrosch, Mary Baker Eddy, Charles William Eliot, Harry Emerson Fosdick, Carter Glass, Ulysses S. Grant, Daniel Guggenheim, Harry Guggenheim, Isaac Guggenheim, Meyer Guggenheim, Simon Guggenheim, Solomon R. Guggenheim, Wade Hampton, Victor Herbert, Chief Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Herbert Hoover, Julia Ward Howe, Stonewall Jackson, John Logan, Cyrus McCormick, Charles Mayo, William Mayo, Walter HInes Page, William Henry Pickering, John D. Rockfeller, John Philip Sousa, Charles Steinmetz, Nathan Straus, William Howard Taft, John Wanamaker, William Allen White, and Eli Whitney.

ArchivalResource: circa 45 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647999972 View

Alger, Philip L. (Philip Langdon), 1894-1979. Mathematics--the gateway to engineering / by Charles P. Steinmetz and Philip L. Alger.

Title: Mathematics--the gateway to engineering / by Charles P. Steinmetz and Philip L. Alger. [1955]

ArchivalResource: 2 v. : ill. ; 29 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/608533141 View

Records of the Weather Bureau. 1735 - 1989. Records Relating to Experiments in Wireless Telegraphy

Title: Records of the Weather Bureau. 1735 - 1989. Records Relating to Experiments in Wireless Telegraphy

ArchivalResource:

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/568021 View

Purcell, Edward M. Oral history interview with Edward Mills Purcell, 1977 June 8 and 14.

Title: Oral history interview with Edward Mills Purcell, 1977 June 8 and 14.

Early life in Illinois; B.S. from Purdue University under Karl Lark-Horovitz, 1929-1933. Visit to Technische Hochschule in Karlsruhe. Theoretical and experimental work and teaching at Harvard University, 1934-1941, under Emory L. Chaffee, Kenneth T. Bainbridge, John Van Vleck. World War II research on radar at MIT Radiation Laboratory, 1941-1946. Return to Harvard; teaching, nuclear magnetic resonance and 21-cm line research. Discusses government consulting work, 1950-1970, especially President's Science Advisory Committee, American Physical Society presidency; teaching at Harvard. Interests in astrophysics, developing physics curricula. Also prominently mentioned are: Kenneth Tompkins Bainbridge, Felix Bloch, Bobby Cutler, Robert Henry Dicke, Edwards, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Harold Ewen, Ferry, William Francis Giauque, William Webster Hansen, Malcolm Hebb, Ted Hunt, Lyndon B. Johnson, Fritz Leonhart, Dunlap McNair, Otto Oldenburg, Jan Hendrik Oort, Wolfgang Pauli, Robert V. Pound, Isidor Isaac Rabi, Norman Foster Ramsey, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Schnabel, Julian R. Schwinger, Francis Eugene Simon, Charles Steinmetz, Henry Torrey, Hendrik Christoffell van de Hulst, John Von Neumann, Isidor Walerstein, Walter Witzel, Hubert J. Yearian, Jerrold Reinach Zacharias; Bell System Technical Journal, Great Britain Royal Air Force Coastal Command, Radio Research Laboratory, Illinois Southeastern Telephone Co., Killian Committee, Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, National Academy of Sciences, Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden, Unitarian Church, United States Office of Naval Research, University of California at Berkeley, and Voice of America.

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 59 pp.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82576526 View