Melville Eastham Papers 1908-1973 (bulk 1930-1964)

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Melville Eastham Papers 1908-1973 (bulk 1930-1964)

Radio engineer and manufacturer. Correspondence, diaries, blueprints, sketches, plans, notebooks, company files, photographs, reports, clippings, and printed matter largely related to Eastham’s career as a radio engineer and as head of the General Radio Company, but also to his avocation of collecting early maps and atlases.

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Compton, K. T. (Karl Taylor), 1887-1954

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Conant, James Bryant, 1893-1978

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Schaefer, Marie E.

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Benham, Cedric M.

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Friedrichs, George

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Eastham, Melville, 1885-1964

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Shaw, Henry Southworth

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Mears, Henry S.

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Friedrichs, Nicole

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Grover, Charles S.

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Bush, Vannevar, 1890-1974

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Clark, Trevor

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Barton, Fred S.

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Loomis, Alfred L. (Alfred Lee), 1887-1975

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Alfred Lee Loomis, 1887-1975, A.B. in physics, 1909, Yale University; LL.B. 1912, Harvard Law School, was a member of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Corporation from 1931 until his death in 1975. He established Loomis Laboratories in 1926 in Tuxedo Park, New York, to conduct independently financed research on a wide range of scientific topics. As chairman of the Microwave Committee of the National Defense Research Committee (NDRC), he was influential in establishing the governme...