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Sir Hiram Maxim: Patent specifications for explosives, 1895

Title: Sir Hiram Maxim: Patent specifications for explosives 1895

ArchivalResource: 1 volume

http://archiveshub.ac.uk/data/gb12-ms.add.8424 View

Joseph Severn papers, 1821-1899.

Title: Joseph Severn papers, 1821-1899.

Correspondence, primarily concerning the poet John Keats, as well as compositions of English poet and painter Joseph Severn.

ArchivalResource: 4 boxes (2 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00753/catalog View

Maxim, Hudson, 1853-1927. Papers, 1851-1925.

Title: Papers, 1851-1925.

The papers comprise a small body of material left in Maxim's Lake Hopatcong home at his death and subsequently purchased by Martin Wiener, a local industrialist and collector.

ArchivalResource: 2 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122503508 View

Hudson Maxim papers, 1883-1927, 1890s-1927

Title: Hudson Maxim papers 1883-1927 1890s-1927

Hudson Maxim (1853-1927) was an American inventor, mechanical engineer and explosives expert. He worked as a consultant for the Du Pont Company from 1897 to 1927 and wrote books on explosives and literary and political matters. Collection consists of correspondence; typescripts of speeches, books and articles; patent materials; legal documents; family papers; photographs; and printed matter. Papers document Maxim's career as an inventor and explosives expert; experiments with soybeans and other foods; anti-Prohibition activities; involvement with Lake Hopatcong, New Jersey, local affairs; and family and personal life. Bulk of correspondence dates from last few years of Maxim's life, 1925-1927, and concerns his personal and professional activities. Also, speeches delivered by Maxim, 1907-1927; notes, reports, correspondence, blueprint maps, and charts relating to explosion sites and damage; legal documents, ca. 1911-1925; correspondence with canning companies, seed merchants, and state and federal agriculture departments, 1917-1918, concerning his experiments with the preparation and canning of various foods, particularly soybeans; drafts of an autobiography and other writings, ca. 1880s-1920s; and anti-Prohibition speeches, articles and letters to newspaper editors, with related clippings and printed materials, 1920s. Includes photographs of Maxim's friends, family and homes; papers relating to family and personal matters; specifications for his patents, 1880s-1910s; correspondence, minutes and legal documents, 1915-1925, of the Maxim Munitions Corp.; and account books, scrapbooks, address books, autograph album, patent information, and printed matter.

ArchivalResource: 37.5 linear feet (80 boxes)

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/1918 View

Octave Chanute Papers, 1807-1955, (bulk 1860-1910)

Title: Octave Chanute Papers 1807-1955 (bulk 1860-1910)

Civil engineer and aviation pioneer. The bulk of the collection relates to Chanute's experiments with gliders and his scientific and financial support of aeronautical pioneers. Other papers concern his career as a builder of railroads and his service as chief engineer of the Erie Railroad and railroads in Illinois and Kansas.

ArchivalResource: 10,325 items; 46 containers plus 1 oversize; 17.4 linear feet; 25 microfilm reels

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms998005 View

Scientists Collection, 1563-1973

Title: Scientists Collection 1563-1973

The Scientists Collection is comprised of individual letters and small groups of correspondence from American, British, French, and German scientists during the past three centuries. Although the content is highly varied, there is significant strength in astronomy, natural history, conchology, and geology. Among the scientists better represented in the collection are the astronomers William Radcliffe Birt, J.F.W. Herschel, and Franz Xaver von Zach; the conchologists A.D. Brown, Fred L. Button, Otto Mörch, Alfred Newton, Christian M. Poulsen, Temple Prime, Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy, and A. G. Wetherby; the physical scientists George Biddell Airy, Arnold Sommerfeld, Ferdinand R. Hassler, and Max Planck; the archaeologist Jean François Nadaillac; the philosopher William Whewell; and the naturalists Walter Henry Bates, Robert Chambers, Edme Dupuget, Robert Kaye Greville, Joseph Henry, John Stevens Henslow, John Lubbock, and Herbert Spencer.

ArchivalResource: 5.75 Linear feet; 13 upright boxes, 8 oversize folders.

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.509.L56-ead.xml View

Sir Hiram Maxim: Patent specifications for explosives, 1895

Title: Sir Hiram Maxim: Patent specifications for explosives 1895

ArchivalResource: 1 volume

http://archiveshub.ac.uk/data/gb12-ms.add.8424 View

Sir James Paget correspondence, 1784-1932, 1784-1932

Title: Sir James Paget correspondence, 1784-1932 1784-1932

These letters were assembled by Lady Paget as a collection of autographs. Most are addressed to Paget, and their subjects include medicine, science, and family.

ArchivalResource: 0.75 Linear feet, 196 items

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.P212-ead.xml View

Maxim, Hiram S. (Hiram Stevens), 1840-1916. Letter.

Title: Letter. 1897.

T.L.S. (1897 Nov. 3, London) to Thompson concerning the production of diamonds.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (3 leaves)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/10351975 View

Hudson Maxim papers, 1883-1927, bulk (1890s-1927).

Title: Hudson Maxim papers, 1883-1927, bulk (1890s-1927).

Collection consists of correspondence; typescripts of speeches, books and articles; patent materials; legal documents; family papers; photographs; and printed matter.

ArchivalResource: 37.5 linear feet (80 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122580483 View

Du Pont, Lammot, 1909-1964,. Lammot du Pont, Jr., Aeronautics collection, 1783-1944.

Title: Lammot du Pont, Jr., Aeronautics collection, 1783-1944.

The Lammot du Pont, Jr., Aeronautical Collection consists of books, manuscripts, and prints and photographs.

ArchivalResource: Mss. 7.2 linear ft.Prints and photographs 1,700 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122355321 View

Maxim, Hiram S. (Hiram Stevens), 1840-1916. Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim collection, 1840-1961.

Title: Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim collection, 1840-1961.

Copies of articles about Maxim; speech given by him to the Royal United Service Institution; assorted pictures and excerpts from his autobiography; copy of last will and testament; speech (1960-1961?) given by his grandson, Hiram Hamilton Maxim, at Monday Evening Club, Hartford, Conn., about powered flight; photographs; and materials relating to a letter written by Rudyard Kipling pertaining to Maxim's machine gun and a possible meeting between the two, as well as a copy of the letter.

ArchivalResource: .25 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70923089 View

Letters sent to Walter Hines Page from various correspondents, English period, 1876-1937.

Title: Letters sent to Walter Hines Page from various correspondents, English period, 1876-1937.

Letters to American editor and diplomat Walter Hines Page from various correspondents concerning his diplomatic service.

ArchivalResource: 36 boxes (11.88 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00275/catalog View

William Peters Aviation Photograph Collection, 1903-1964, 1908-1930

Title: William Peters Aviation Photograph Collection 1903-1964 1908-1930

The collection compiled by William H. Peters and given to Lieutenant Colonel John Glenn includes 53 photographs of famous aviators and aircrafts from the beginning of man-powered flight through the late 1930s. Included are images of the 1903 Wright Flyer, Glenn Curtiss, Benjamin Foulois, Fiorello Henry LaGuardia and many others. This collection also contains many signed photographs and documents including signatures from Wilbur Wright, Alberto Santos-Dumont, Dr. Hugo Eckner, Edwin Levick and M. Salmond.

ArchivalResource:

http://rave.ohiolink.edu/archives/ead/ODaWU0363 View

Elizabeth Hiatt Gregory Collection of Material About American Aviation, 1900-1945

Title: Elizabeth Hiatt Gregory Collection of Material About American Aviation, 1900-1945

Elizabeth Hiatt Gregory (1872- ) was a journalist and lecturer in the field of aviation. She was a correspondent for the , , the , the and the . The collection consists of correspondence, photographs, clippings, and related ephemeral materials collected by Elizabeth Gregory. The collection materials focus on pioneer men and women aviators, balloons, the Hindenburg, and the role of aviation in World War I and World War II. Harpers Bazaar Town and Country New York Times New York Tribune New York Sun

ArchivalResource: 6 boxes (3 linear ft.)

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf958009b3 View