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Goldsborough, John Paul, 1934-. Oral history interview with John Goldsborough, 1984 January 18.

Title: Oral history interview with John Goldsborough, 1984 January 18.

Goldsborough's research on continuous wave (cw) ion lasers leads to Spectra-Physics model 140; work atmosphere, organizational structure, and financial fortunes of Spectra-Physics (Earl Bell, Arnold Bloom); relations with Hughes Aircraft (William B. Bridges). Goldsborough replaces Earl Bell as manager of theoretical research. Founders of Coherent Radiation; their backgrounds. Spectra-Physics' interest in CO2 laser research; the argon laser; water-cooled ion lasers, 1968; records of technical work at Spectra-Physics, including his own.

ArchivalResource: Untranscribed.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79973150 View

Ira Eaker Papers, 1917-1989, (bulk 1942-1945)

Title: Ira Eaker Papers 1917-1989 (bulk 1942-1945)

United States Army air corps officer, aviation pioneer, aircraft industry executive, and newspaper columnist. Part I consists of correspondence, memoranda, diaries, reports, meetings minutes, printed material, and other papers documenting Eaker's military career in the aeronautical section of the United States Army, particularly his experiences in World War II. Part II consists of correspondence, memoranda, diaries speeches, writings, and scheduling and subject files pertaining to Eaker's activities after leaving the military.

ArchivalResource: 77,300 items; 218 containers plus 16 oversize and 2 classified; 89.6 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003051 View

Lee, S. Charles, 1899-. The show started on the sidewalk : oral history transcript / S. Charles Lee, interview conducted by Martha Valentine, under the auspices of the Oral History Program, University of California, Los Angeles, 1987.

Title: The show started on the sidewalk : oral history transcript / S. Charles Lee, interview conducted by Martha Valentine, under the auspices of the Oral History Program, University of California, Los Angeles, 1987.

Lee discusses his education at the Armour Institute of Technology and the Art Institute of Chicago; Los Angeles in the 1920s; subdivisions, modernism, commissions for houses and duplexes; his role as theater architect for Fox Film Corporation, focusing on numerous Fox theaters; other architectural projects such as hotels, subdivisions, his home, and a venture with Hughes Aircraft; also mentioned are his activities with the Braille Institute for the Blind and the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Eye Clinic.

ArchivalResource: [iii], xi, 101 p. ; 29 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/214688223 View

Wooldridge, Dean E. Oral history interview with Dean E. Wooldridge, 1976 August 21.

Title: Oral history interview with Dean E. Wooldridge, 1976 August 21.

Family background and early education; University of Oklahoma; graduate work and electrical engineering at California Institute of Technology. Bell Laboratories, 1936-1946; colloquium and other social structures; early solid state physics work; Fletcher's group with Foster Nix and William Shockley; war years, work on radar bomb sights; postwar years. Move to Hughes Aircraft Company, 1946-1953; formation and accomplishments of Thompson-Ramo-Wooldridge after 1953; current interests. Also prominently mentioned are: Joseph A. Becker, R. S. Bowen, Walter Houser Brattain, Oliver E. Buckley, Joseph Ashby Burton, Karl Kelchner Darrow, Clinton Joseph Davisson, Paul Sophus Epstein, Conyers Herring, C. N. Hickman, Howard Hughes, J. B. Johnson, Edward Karrouse, Mervin J. Kelly, G. A. Kelsall, J. W. McRae, Robert Andrews Millikan, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Gerald Leondus Pearson, Don Quarles, Simon Ramo, Rhine, Duane Roller, Hellvar Skaade, William Ralph Smythe, Leopold Stokowski, Richard Chase Tolman, Charles Hard Townes, Howell J. Williams, Jewel Wurtzbaugh, Fritz Zwicky; American Physical Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States Air Force, and Western Electric Company.

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 57 pp.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82944288 View

Ridenoure, Rex (Rex Wade), 1956- ,. Interview with Rex Ridenoure / by Henry C. Dethloff and Ronald a. Schorn.

Title: Interview with Rex Ridenoure / by Henry C. Dethloff and Ronald a. Schorn.

Engineer Rex Ridenoure talks about his interest in space science as a youth, and how it guided his education. He also describes his employment at Hughes Aircraft, Lockheed Missiles & Space Co., Northern Utah Satellite, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Prior to working at JPL, his jobs at Hughes and Northern Utah Satellites involved development of communication satellites. At JPL, he worked for Charles Kohlhase in the Voyager Mission Planning Group from September 1986 through July 1997, which included the period of the Voyager spacecraft's encounter with Neptune.

ArchivalResource: No tape recording on file.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/733102265 View

Ferguson, Homer, 1888-1982. Homer Ferguson papers, 1939-1976.

Title: Homer Ferguson papers, 1939-1976.

Correspondence, photographs, and other papers relating to his Senate career, especially his work on committees investigating the national defense program and the attack on Pearl Harbor; also files relating to his work as Wayne County one-man grand jury, 1939-1942, as member of the Hoover Commission, Philippine ambassador, and judge.

ArchivalResource: 26 linear ft. and 1 folder [outsize]Photographs 3 linear ft. and 1 folder [outsize]Sound recordings .75 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34419354 View

Tannenwald, P. E. Oral history interview with Peter E. Tannenwald and H. J. Zeiger, 1986 January 8.

Title: Oral history interview with Peter E. Tannenwald and H. J. Zeiger, 1986 January 8.

Joint interview with Herbert J. Zeiger. Tannenwald and Zeiger comment on a program to create a Raman maser, which they began independently of work at Hughes Aircraft Company, in ca. 1962. They also mention Department of Defense interest in Raman lasers for high-power applications and the struggle to understand the physics behind these lasers in the mid-1960s.

ArchivalResource: Notes, 3 pp.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81574303 View

Bridges, William B., 1934-. Oral history interview with William Bridges, 1985 January 28.

Title: Oral history interview with William Bridges, 1985 January 28.

University training at University of California, Berkeley, under John Whinnery and Charles Birdsall. The adaptation of the argonher laser researches are touched upon, including the gas dynamic laser and laser isotope separation. Relations between basic research and systems research at Hughes Aircraft Company.

ArchivalResource: Sound recording: 1 sound cassette (ca. 1.0 hrs.), 1 session.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80714566 View

Stitch, Malcolm L. Response to Laser History Project Survey, 1963-1983.

Title: Response to Laser History Project Survey, 1963-1983.

A copy of a 1983 application for a "senior government position" which fully outlines Stitch's research in lasers with Union Carbide Corporation (including ARPA Project AMOS laser system on Mt. Haleakala), at Hughes Aircraft on military applications for the AVCO Gas Dynamic Laser, and other Hughes research and development laser programs involving masers and lasers. File also includes a brief resume and two documents entitled "The Early Years at Hughes--The Rest of the Story," one of which is a later, corrected version of the other. In these, Stitch describes recruitment and research work on tunable dye lasers with Mary Spaeth, Walter Sooy, and Dave Bortfeld and the department in which this took place.

ArchivalResource: 42 pp.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78821030 View

[Hughes Electronics Collection].

Title: [Hughes Electronics Collection]. 1940-2003.

The Archives of Hughes Electronics Corporation contain the files and publications of the corporate communications department and include complete files of its corporate newsletters Hughes News, 1948-95, and Hughes Herald, 1996-7; press releases, 1956-96; Annual Reports; technical, informational and marketing publications; videos; corporate speeches; biographical files of executives; historical bio files; and photographs of Howard Hughes and aircraft (particularly the 'Spruce Goose'), developed by Hughes Aircraft and test flown by Howard Hughes. The collection comprises approximately 125 cubic feet of material including large framed portraits of Hughes and corporate presidents. This collection provides unique and comprehensive internal documentation of one of the United States' most influential engineering firms for almost a half-century and for the whole period of its independent existence. As such it was the center of Hughes's corporate empire, and the company with the greatest and most long term impact in engineering, where Hughes's genius in fact lay. It also forms a significant historical record of the legacy of American icon, Howard Hughes.

ArchivalResource: 22 boxes (125 linear feet).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/459839410 View

Woodbury, Eric J. Oral history interview with Eric J. Woodbury, 1985 November 14.

Title: Oral history interview with Eric J. Woodbury, 1985 November 14.

Narrative account of Woodbury's work at Hughes Aircraft Company, 1951-1981; focusses on the design and development of the laser rangefinder in F.R. Carver's group, changes in the company structure that fostered the project, George Smith's Research Laboratory, contract work with Fred McClung for Frankford Arsenal and Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA); Air Force contract work with W.K. Ng leading to discovery of stimulated Raman scattering, Second and Third International Quantum Electronics Conferences (1961, 1963); the first Mark II Colidar and other applications, licensing arrangements and production.

ArchivalResource: Notes, 13 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80093446 View

Hellwarth, Robert Willis, 1930-. Oral history interview with Robert Willis Hellwarth, 1985 May 29.

Title: Oral history interview with Robert Willis Hellwarth, 1985 May 29.

Covers period from 1948 through 1965, when Hellwarth was an undergraduate at Princeton University, to 1952; a doctoral student at University of Oxford, to 1955; a postdoctoral student at California Institute of Technology, 1955-1956; a research scientist at Hughes Aircraft Company, 1956 on; and a visiting professor at the University of Illinois. Emphasis on the cross-fertilization of his electrical engineering and physics education; his collaboration with R. Feynman and F. Vernon on the theory of masers; Q-switching, and stimulated Raman scattering.

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 68 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/84945713 View

Halsted, A. Stevens. Oral history interview with A. Stevens Halsted, 1987 December 1.

Title: Oral history interview with A. Stevens Halsted, 1987 December 1.

From 1969-1976, Halsted headed Hughes Aircraft Company's commercial gas laser unit within the firm's industrial electronics group. In this conversation Halsted describes some of the customers Hughes had for argon-ion and helium neon lasers. He talks about the composition of the work force, and about the kinds of development work that was required to commercialize the tubes. He also touches on the degree to which commercial products were "spin-offs" from military technology, and the slow rate at which the commercial laser market developed.

ArchivalResource: Notes, 8 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78638249 View

United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Ames Research Center. Non-JPL technical documents, 1952 [1967] 1979.

Title: Non-JPL technical documents, 1952 [1967] 1979.

ArchivalResource: 1.3 cubic ft. (18 folders)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/733105615 View

Homer Ferguson Papers, 1939-1976

Title: Homer Ferguson Papers 1939-1976

Republican U.S. Senator from Michigan, U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines; files relating to his various career responsibilities, photographs, sound recordings.

ArchivalResource: 26 linear ft., 1 oversize folder, and 35 sound discs in 1 carrying case

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/b/bhlead/umich-bhl-85187?rgn=main;view=text View

Smith, George Foster, 1922-. Oral history interview with George Foster Smith, 1985 February 5.

Title: Oral history interview with George Foster Smith, 1985 February 5.

Maser research at Hughes Research Laboratories. The laser; Theodore H. Maiman's work; building a laser rangefinder; Q-switching; stimulated Raman scattering; other laser research. The impact of Sputnik and the Vietnam war on Hughes Aircraft Co. Procedures for selecting research projects. Also prominently mentioned are: Doug Beddenhagen, William B. Bridges, Malcolm Currie, Francis E. Goodwin, Robert Willis Hellwarth, Pat Hyland, Harold Lyons, Fred McClung, R. C. Pastor, Eugene P. Peressini, Arthur Leonard Schawlow; Aerojet-General Corporation, Avco-Everett Research Laboratory, Bell Telephone Laboratories.

ArchivalResource: Sound recordings: 2 sound cassettes, 1 session.Transcript: 40 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83622730 View

Beiser, Frank D. Aviation clippings scrapbook, ca. 1951-1954.

Title: Aviation clippings scrapbook, ca. 1951-1954.

Summary: Oversized scrapbook of newspaper clippings, dated 1951 to 1954, primarily about the reactivation of Marana Air Base for use as a contract aviation school. The contract was awarded to Darr Aero Tech, Inc. to train air force pilots. Additional news stories relate to the history and development of Hughes Aircraft and the growth of Tucson and its industrial and military industries. One article concerns a powder puff derby and women pilots. One complete issue of the Moultrie Observer from Moultrie, Georgia is included which features the Hawthorne School of Aeronautics, dated May 17, 1951.

ArchivalResource: 2.5 linear ft. (1 box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/549481249 View

Herbert Friedman Papers, 1940-2000

Title: Herbert Friedman Papers 1940-2000

ArchivalResource: 31.0 Linear feet

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.Ms.Coll.113-ead.xml View

Bass, Michael, 1939-. Oral history interview with Michael Bass, 1985 May 29.

Title: Oral history interview with Michael Bass, 1985 May 29.

Research on nonlinear optics at the University of Michigan, 1961 to 1964, laser education at Berkeley, 1964-1966; color centers, laser damages, and dye lasers at Raytheon, 1966-1973, and medical applications at University of Southern California, after 1973. Experimental laser techniques and their evolution and the institutional context of research at each of these sites. Also prominently mentioned are: John A. Armstrong, Nicolaas Bloembergen, Colin Bowness, William B. Bridges, Tom Deutsch, Richard Dwyer, Peter Alden Franken, Joseph Anthony Giordmaine, Alan Hill, James Hobart, Frank Horrigan, Steve Jarrett, Kleinman, Clarence Luck, Theodore Maiman, Sam McCall, Steve Miller, Roy Paananeu, Al Paiadino, C. Wilbur Peters, Al Poladine, Sergio Porto, Lance Riley, Mike Saiden, Fritz Schafer, Mike Seiden, Peter P. Sorokin, Herman Statz, Carlisle Martin Stickley, Gaby Weinreich; Bell Telephone Laboratories, Conference on Laser and Electro-optical Systems, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, Eastman Kodak Co., Exxon Corporation, Hughes Aircraft Company, Metrologic Co., Raytheon Corporation, Spectra-Physics Company, Trion Instruments Company, and University of California at San Diego.

ArchivalResource: Sound recordings: 2 sound cassettes (ca. 1.5 hrs.), 1 session.Transcript: 31 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81474008 View

Soffer, Bernard Harold, 1931-. Oral history interview with Bernard Harold Soffer, 1985 May 29.

Title: Oral history interview with Bernard Harold Soffer, 1985 May 29.

Member of Theodore H. Maiman's group at Hughes Research Laboratory shortly after Maiman invented the ruby laser; left Hughes with Maiman to join Quantatron and then Maiman's firm, Korad. Discusses some features of Quantatron. Describes the atmosphere at Korad and the work of its R&D group; policies and styles of Korad's management and Korad's relation to Union Carbide.

ArchivalResource: 1 session, no tape or transcript.Notes: 5 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81179791 View

Siegman, A. E. (Anthony Edward). Oral history interview with Anthony Edward Siegman, 1984 January 23 and 1986 August 19.

Title: Oral history interview with Anthony Edward Siegman, 1984 January 23 and 1986 August 19.

This interview deals with Siegman's education, from 1949 to 1957, as an undergraduate at Harvard University, Hughes Aircraft Company work-study fellow at the University of California in Los Angeles, and a Ph.D. candidate at Stanford University. Also prominently mentioned are: Hubert Heffner, Rudolf Kompfner, Frederick Emmons Terman, Ping K. Tien, Dean A. Watkins, Joseph Weber, and John R. Whinnery.

ArchivalResource: Sound recordings: 2 sound cassettes (ca. 1.0 hrs.), 2 sessions.Transcript: session one transcript, 14 p., session two untranscribed.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82492453 View

Meyer, Robert Louis. Papers, 1938-1988.

Title: Papers, 1938-1988.

Consists of: correspondence, 1942-1988, with literary agents, journals, etc., concerning Meyer's writings; copies of his press releases relating to sports, particularly Indiana high school basketball, prior to his European assignment; copies of his wartime dispatches while with Patton and later Bradley's armies; and some of the stories he sent from Rome and London after the war. Also present is a notebook of releases written for the Hughes Aircraft Company, 1959-1965, arranged by broad subject; studies and reports relating to the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in the mid-1970s; and the manuscript for Meyer's volume of short stories Autumn Leaves (New York: Rosen, 1985). Five scrapbooks, 1938-1939, and several photographs from the war period complete the collection.

ArchivalResource: 1640 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/27024447 View

MCI Communications Corporation. Engineering Groups. Records of MCI engineering groups, 1967-1993 (bulk 1970-1990).

Title: Records of MCI engineering groups, 1967-1993 (bulk 1970-1990).

Records from MCI groups and departments involved in constructing, maintaining and operating MCI's transmission network, documenting the transformation of MCI's telecommunication network from Goeken's original vision of a single Chicago-St. Louis route to a nationwide and international integrated fiber optic, microwave and satellite system by the 1980s. Includes records related to the design and implementation of computerized switching, digital distribution and fiber optic transmission, and local distribution facilities planning and operations.

ArchivalResource: 64 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122597904 View

Jet Propulsion Laboratory (U.S.). TDA and DSN support group. DSN History Collection, 1962-1977.

Title: DSN History Collection, 1962-1977.

Records include IOMs and other correspondence, presentations, reports, reviews, schedules, press releases, brochures and handwritten notes. This collection includes Deep Space Network (DSN) support on various projects including Ranger, Helios, Mariner, Pioneer, and Surveyor.

ArchivalResource: 2.0 cubic ft. (59 folders)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/733106431 View

Satellite Business Systems. Records, 1971-1990 (bulk 1975-1985).

Title: Records, 1971-1990 (bulk 1975-1985).

The series is comprised of 1971-1985 records of SBS and, partially, its predecessors MCIL and CML, acquired by MCI together with SBS assets and operations, and of 1985-1987 records related to the merger process - transition plans, aquisition agreement, correspondence. Additional material on SBS is collected in Series IV: Office of the Chief Strategy and Technology Officer R. Liebhaber who came to MCI from IBM at the time of merger and played one of the key roles in the transition process.

ArchivalResource: 39 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122516293 View

Yariv, Amnon. Oral history interview with Amnon Yariv, 1985 January 28.

Title: Oral history interview with Amnon Yariv, 1985 January 28.

Doctoral thesis on 2-level solid state masers at University of California at Berkeley, 1956-1959; beginnings of his work on integrated optics at California Institute of Technology, mid-1960s. Research at Bell Telephone Laboratories on noise, parametric amplifiers, doped crystal lasers, and semiconductor lasers, and his mode-locking studies at Watkins-Johnson and Lockheed. Role of consultancy at Hughes Aircraft Co. on research in phase-conjugated optics.

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 48 pp.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79125458 View

D'Haenens, Irenee J., 1934-. History of maser research and development at Hughes Aircraft, 1956-1960, 1983.

Title: History of maser research and development at Hughes Aircraft, 1956-1960, 1983.

Response to Laser History Project survey in which Irenee J. D'Haenens describes work on ruby masers in the Atomic Physics Department of Hughes Laboratories with Harold Lyons, George Birnbaum, Bela Lengyl, Robert Hellwarth, Theodore Maiman, and Malcolm Stitch.

ArchivalResource: 7 pages.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80400246 View

Wilson, James G. Oral history interview with James G. Wilson, 1984 September 26.

Title: Oral history interview with James G. Wilson, 1984 September 26.

Wilson's training and naval background; Early ONR Laser R & D unknown to him; learns of the AVCO/Hughes laser program; visits to AVCO-Everett Research Laboratories and his impressions of Arthur Kantrowitz; decision to invest in gas dynamic laser development; awareness of the Triservice Laser (TSL) Study; David Mann's management of the Eighth Card Program; the poor relationships between the Navy and the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA); Wilson writes an Advanced Development Objective for a High Energy Laser program in the Navy; The Triservice Laser Program is established; planning the Chesapeake Bay Navy Triservice Laser; Navy Contract funds for laser developemnt; Service Coordination; PMO-405 established; following the carbon monoxide laser development at Northrup; building the Chesapeake Bay TSL Site; Walt Sooy and the organization of the Laser Technology Program Office; the Fleet Defense Module; Science Applications Inc., and systems support for the Navy HEL Program; shift to the chemical laser; success of the Baseline Demonstration Laser; carbon monoxide laser not a serious alternative; dealing with safety considerations; the sinking of the Coastal Crusader; the Navy philosophy of test bed development and a comparision with the Strategic Defense Initiative; systems engineering; the engineering staff of PMO-405; The DOD High Energy Laser Review Group; results of damage study; pulsed laser work: Thumper, Big Bang. Big Big Bang, Pulsed chemical laser; adaptive optics; reflections on the Navy High Energy Laser Program & its bureaucratic difficulties; transfer of PMO-405 to Al Skolnick; Sooy leaves NRL.

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 39 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78280479 View

Parks, Robert J., 1922-. Robert J. Parks Collection, 1945-1966.

Title: Robert J. Parks Collection, 1945-1966.

The items in the collection were collected by Robert J. Parks. Parks' career at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) lasted from 1947 to 1987. During the span dates of the collection, Parks served as an Engineer in the Guidance and Control Section (1947-50), Chief of the Guidance Section and its various incarnations (1950-60), Project Director of the Sergeant Missile Program (1957-60), and Flight Projects Director (1961-84). Represented in the collection are correspondence, reports, journal reprints, handwritten notes, brochures, and photographs. The collection is divided into six series: Contract JPL-15, JPL Reports, Journal Reprints, Flight Projects, Deep Space Network, and Miscellaneous. The bulk of the collection is between 1948-1961. Each series is filed chronologically unless otherwise noted. At a conference held at Wright Field, Ohio in May 1948, the U.S. Air Force Air Materiel Command assigned JPL a project to evaluate and assess the guidance and control of guided missile projects underway at eight different contractors. This project, Contract W33-038-AC-18709, was known as JPL-15. The eight contractors (and their missiles) that were evaluated were: Bell Aircraft Company (MX-776 Shrike/Rascal), Boeing Aircraft Company (MX-606 Ground-to-Air Pilotless Aircraft [GAPA]), Ryan Aeronautical Company (MX-799 Firebird), Hughes Aircraft Company (MX-904 Tiamat), University of Michigan (MX-794 Wizard), North American Aviation Company (MX-770 NATIV), Glenn L. Martin Company (MX-771A Matador) and Northrop Aircraft Company (MX-775B Snark). The first evaluation, Bell Aircraft Company, began in June 1948. Robert Parks was one of the engineers who traveled to the contractor sites to consult with engineers on the various projects. In December 1948 he traveled to Seattle to visit Boeing. In April 1949 he traveled to Ann Arbor, Michigan to evaluate the University of Michigan. Immediately after this he went to Baltimore to the Glenn L. Martin Company. The majority of the series is comprised of handwritten notes. Also included in the series are memoranda, correspondence and travel forms. A majority of the memoranda in the series were originally marked as "Secret," but have all been declassified. Also prominent in the series are three documents that are key in the formation of the Deep Space Network. The "Radio Astronomy Handbook," dated February 1958 and written by William D. Merrick, is a working handbook in the development of the Deep Space Network. Included in the handbook is a complete list of all existing observatories and their locations, along with short profiles of companies that could be contracted in assisting JPL personnel to construct radio astronomy antennas. "A Study of On-Site Computing and Data Processing for a World Tracking Network," JPL Publication 155, was dated February 9, 1959 and written by Clarence R. Gates and Marshall S. Johnson. It is a study formulating the requirements for operations to be performed on tracking or antenna-acquisition data at the individual sites of what was then called a World Tracking Network. The "South African Trip Report" is a travel report by Jack N. James and Phil A. Tardini on their trip to the Union of South Africa as a potential site for a NASA Deep Space Station. James, Tardini, and two other NASA personnel were in South Africa from September 26 to October 5, 1959. The group met with officials from the National Institute for Telecommunications Research (NITR), a unit of the South African government's Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR). The objectives were to narrow potential sites based on geographical, topological and logistical considerations; a discussion of a possible agreement with South African officials; and to gather general information on South Africa. Each of the three objectives is given adequate discussion in the report. Also in the report are summaries of briefings and topographical maps of possible site locations. DSS 51, a 26-meter L and S-band antenna, located at Hartbeesthoek, outside of Johannesburg, became operational in June 1961. The station ceased operations for the DSN in June 1974, due officially to changing requirements for planetary flight programs. The antenna was transferred to NITR, which configured it for radio astronomy research that continues to the present day.

ArchivalResource: 1.2 cubic ft. (74 folders)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/733100235 View

Brenkus, Chuck. Hughes Flying-boat test run photographs [graphic].

Title: Hughes Flying-boat test run photographs [graphic]. 1947.

Photographs depict Hughes Aircraft Company's H-4 Hercules (aka Spruce Goose) heavy transport aircraft during its first and only test run on November 2, 1947 at Long Beach, Calif., as well as related views. Images depict aerial view of construction location at Hughes Airport in Los Angeles; the fuselage portion of the the aircraft en route to Long Beach Naval Shipyard; aerial view of plane in water adjacent to its assembly location at shipyard; interior of plane with Howard Hughes and other crew at the controls; and the aircraft in water during test run.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (6 photographic prints, matted and mounted) : prints 27 x 34 cm, mounts 44 x 54 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/773930542 View

Smith, George Foster, 1922-. Selected papers from George F. Smith's tenure at Hughes Aircraft Company, 1960-1962.

Title: Selected papers from George F. Smith's tenure at Hughes Aircraft Company, 1960-1962.

Interdepartmental memo from Smith to A. V. Haeff and Theodore Maiman (at Hughes Aircraft Company) concerning laser applications; a paper on suggested research areas entitled, Induced Raman Scattering; and a short biography of Smith.

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78440516 View

Kloman, Erasmus H. Surveyor Project Documents Collection, 1966-1971.

Title: Surveyor Project Documents Collection, 1966-1971.

The collection consists of documents pertaining to the later stages of development and aftermath of the Surveyor project. Included in the collection are correspondence, memoranda, handwritten notes, and manuscript drafts. The latter half of the collection is a rough draft of a management study conducted by the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) of the Surveyor and Lunar Orbiter projects. There is one folder with documents pertaining to the Surveyor Review Board at Hughes Aircraft Company, held in May 1966. The review board recommended that Hughes should act promptly in making any key personnel changes, and increase top management attention to Surveyor. The Surveyor program at Hughes was ultimately realigned, with operations consolidated and responsibilities clarified. Included in the folder are memoranda and correspondence, as well as handwritten notes written by Gordon Neiswanger, who at the time of the review board was Assistant to the JPL Deputy Director, Alvin R. Luedecke. One folder documenting the activities of Apollo 12 that photographed and retrieved parts from the Surveyor 3 spacecraft is represented in the collection. Represented in the folder is correspondence pertaining to the disposal of the parts recovered from Surveyor 3. Included are correspondence from NASA Administrator Thomas O. Paine, Manned Spacecraft Center Director Robert L. Gilruth, Apollo Program Director Rocco A. Petrone, and Surveyor Returned Materials Program Coordinator Milt Goldfine. Also included is an interoffice memorandum from James D. Burke to Goldfine requesting loan of parts from Surveyor 3 for an exhibit at the International Astronomical Union meeting at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, in April 1971. In the early 1970s, the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) funded a study to identify and categorize the major management experiences gained through the Surveyor and Lunar Orbiter programs. The study was written by Erasmus H. Kloman, Senior Research Associate at NAPA. Draft copies of Kloman's study proved to be extremely controversial at JPL. In JPL's estimation, the drafts were filled with factual and interpretive errors; Kloman lacked an objective approach that would make the study meaningful. The study was published as NASA SP-4901, Unmanned Space Project Management: Surveyor and Lunar Orbiter, in 1972. Represented in the collection are revised drafts of Kloman's studies on Surveyor and Lunar Orbiter. Included in the drafts are comments by Charles W. Craven, Executive Assistant to the Director, at the beginning of the draft, and by James W. McGarrity, Advanced Planetary Missions, Section 201, throughout both of the draft manuscripts. More than one person may have left comments in the text.

ArchivalResource: 0.45 cubic ft. (12 folders)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/733100244 View

Strandberg, M. W. P. (Malcolm Woodrow Pershing), 1919-. Oral history interview with Malcolm Woodrow Pershing Strandberg, 1983 June 15.

Title: Oral history interview with Malcolm Woodrow Pershing Strandberg, 1983 June 15.

Particular scientific style; start as an electrical engineer; work on beam frequency standards with H. Richard Johnson; narrowing of the beam, frequency stabilization; work on phase-locking microwave amplifiers; discusses his consulting work at Hughes; search for alternate solution; ideas for increasing gain bandwidth; paper published in Physical Review "Quantum Mechanical Amplifiers"; difference from other papers (Robert V. Pound and Ronald R. Mohler) on same subject; colloquim at MIT on paramagnetic resonance; solution to noise problem; start of group; working from scratch to build own magnet; work with Pound. Also prominently mentioned are: Charles Hard Townes, Jerrold Reinach Zacharias; and Hughes Aircraft Company.

ArchivalResource: Sound recording: 1 sound cassette (ca. 0.5 hrs.), 1 session.Transcript: 9 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80172603 View

Woodbury, Eric J. Response to Laser History Project Survey, 1984.

Title: Response to Laser History Project Survey, 1984.

Response to questionnaire in which Woodbury discusses his education at California Institute of Technology and his work for the Navy in radar and sonar electronics equipment during World War II, his employment and research at Hughes Aircraft Company after graduate school, where he worked on missile systems, and his drift into laser research under M. L. Stitch. Woodbury also discusses his research in stimulated Raman scattering with Gisela Eckhardt, Robert Hellwarth, and F. L. Mclung. File also includes a curriculum vitae and list of publications.

ArchivalResource: 11 pp.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82798105 View

Cutler, Cassius Chapin, 1914-. History of traveling wave tubes [videorecording] / Taped at Hughes Aircraft Co., Canoga Park, CA ; 1983 April 7.

Title: History of traveling wave tubes [videorecording] / Taped at Hughes Aircraft Co., Canoga Park, CA ; 1983 April 7.

A lecture given at Hughes Aircraft Company regarding the development of the traveling wave tube at Bell Telephone Laboratories during the 1940s. Cutler elaborates on the contributions of Rudy Kompfner and J. R. Pierce as well as his own work on the development of circuits for the tubes and the use of Brillouin flow in focusing the beam. The lecture is supported by slides and viewgraphs of drawings and diagrams from the laboratory notebooks of Kompfner, Pierce, and Cutler.

ArchivalResource: 1 videocassette (61 min.) : sd., col. ; 3/4 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/84461656 View

Hughes Aircraft Company. Trade literature, 1961-1970.

Title: Trade literature, 1961-1970.

Item : A systems approach utilizing general-purpose and special-purpose teaching machines, 1961. Item : H-330 real-time computer system, 1962. Item : Hughes '70, 1970.

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

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Wharton School. Industrial Research Unit. Records, 1941-2001 (bulk, 1968-1988).

Title: Records, 1941-2001 (bulk, 1968-1988).

The records consist of surveys, notes, interviews and background materials for the studies produced by the Industrial Research Unit and its predecessor from 1941 to 1990 and collected and maintained by Herbert R. Northrup. The bulk of the files are from the 1970s and 1980s, but there are also a few files from the Center for Human Resources and its first director, Peter Cappelli. Fininshed studies and publications of the Unit are catalogued in the Imprints Dept. The OSHA files deal with the impact of chemical exposure in the aerospace and chemical industries, and of noise and dust exposure in the textile industry. Series V consists of questionnaires for a 1991 survey conducted for the National Association of Manufacturers on the shortage of skilled workers, including questions on training, retraining, hiring practices, turnover rate and orientaion practices.

ArchivalResource: 23 linear ft.

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Whinnery, John R. Oral history interview with John R. Whinnery, with introduction by Donald O. Pederson, interviews conducted by Ann Lage, 1996.

Title: Oral history interview with John R. Whinnery, with introduction by Donald O. Pederson, interviews conducted by Ann Lage, 1996.

Family and youth in western Colorado and Modesto, California; undergraduate education, University of California, 1930s; General Electric Advanced Engineering Program and microwave research, 1937-1946, collaboration with Simon Ramo; research program at Hughes Aircraft, 1951-1952; UC Berkeley College of Engineering, 1946-1995: postwar graduate studies, growth of the Department of Electrical Engineering, Electronics Research Laboratory, faculty recruitment and retention, undergraduate and graduate curriculum, governance issues as dean (1959-1963), former dean Murrough O'Brien; research and teaching in electromagnetic fields and waves and optoelectronics; services on governmental, scientific, and industry advisory boards, NASA Apollo program, 1964-1969. Introduction by Donald O. Pederson, Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley.

ArchivalResource: Transcript: 212 p.

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