Piccard Family Papers circa 1470-1983 (bulk 1926-1983)

Picard family.

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Piccard, Jacques

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Piccard, Jules, b. 1840

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Ridlen family.

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Aéro-Club Suisse.

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United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration

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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was established as an independent agency of the executive branch on October 1, 1958 by the National Aeronautics and Space Act (72 Stat. 426), approved July 29, 1958. It superseded the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA). NASA conducted redsearch on problems of flight, developed aeronautical and space vehicles, explored outer space, and participated in international programs for the peaceful development of space technology....

United States. Army Air Forces

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The Army Air Forces War Adjustment Course was established in 1944 at several locations in the U.S., one of which was Harvard Business School. The HBS program involved eight weeks of training in the business of contract terminations, cutbacks, and property disposal necessitated by changes in Army Air Forces tactical requirements. Approximately 4,200 officers received instruction throughout the country, about one sixth of them at HBS. The goal of the program was to train men for participation in t...

Balloon Federation of America

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Millikan, Robert Andrews, 1868-1953

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Physicist (photoelectricity, ions) and educator. On the physics faculty at the University of Chicago, 1896-1921; on the faculty at California Institute of Technology: director, Norman Bridge Laboratory of Physics and chairman of the Executive Council, 1921-1946, emeritus professor of physics and chairman of the Board of Trustees from 1946; Nobel Prize in physics, 1923. From the description of Papers [microform], 1847-1953. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 77594601 Millikan was...

Gilruth, Robert R. (Robert Rowe), 1913-2000

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Gilruth was Director of MSC. From the description of Ranger 6 Camera Failure : letter to William H. Pickering, JPL Director, 1964 Feb 13. (Jet Propulsion Laboratory Library and Archives). WorldCat record id: 733098480 Robert R. Gilruth (1913-2000) was an aerospace engineer and NACA/NASA administrator. He received his B.S. in aeronautical engineering from the University of Minnesota (1935), as well as his M.S. (1936). Gilruth was also a flight research engineer f...

Stevens, A. W. (Albert William), 1886-1949

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National Research Council (U.S.)

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The National Research Council was organized by the National Academy of Sciences in 1916 to associate the broad community of science and technology with the Academy's purposes of further knowledge and advising the federal government. The Council has become the principal operating agency of both the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering in providing services to the government, the public, and the scientific and engineering communities. From the descriptio...

Piccard, Auguste, 1884-1962

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Piccard, Jacques

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Piccard, Jean-Félix 1884-1963

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Jean Felix Piccard was born January 28, 1884 in Basel, Switzerland, educated at Basel and at the Swiss Institute of Technology in Zurich where he received his doctorate in 1909. He moved to the United States in 1916 and taught first at the University of Chicago, and then (in 1936) at the University of Minnesota, Dept. of Aeronautical Engineering, where he remained until he retired in 1952. He was a pioneering stratosphere balloonist and cosmic ray research scientist. From the descrip...

Piccard, Don, 1926-

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Hercules Powder Company

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Calco Chemical Company

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NY and Bound Brook, NJ. From the description of Pamphlets and handbills, ca.1920-1935. (College of Physicians of Philadelphia). WorldCat record id: 122523589 ...

Episcopal Church

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In 1982, the General Convention of the Church deleted the words "Protestant" and "in the United States of America" from the official title of the Church, making it the Episcopal Church. From the description of Records of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States of America, Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society, 1823-1975 (inclusive). (Yale University). WorldCat record id: 702152635 ...

Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955

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Albert Einstein was born at Ulm, in Württemberg, Germany, on March 14, 1879. Six weeks later the family moved to Munich, where he later on began his schooling at the Luitpold Gymnasium. Later, they moved to Italy and Albert continued his education at Aarau, Switzerland and in 1896 he entered the Swiss Federal Polytechnic School in Zurich to be trained as a teacher in physics and mathematics. In 1901, the year he gained his diploma, he acquired Swiss citizenship and, as he was...

McNairy, Philip F.

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Pleiades (Aerostat)

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Piccard, Jeannette, 1895-1981

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Hiatt, Suzanne R.

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Suzanne Hiatt was the John Seely Stone Professor of Homiletics and Pastoral Theology at the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and was a participant in the women's ordination movement in the Episcopal Church. From the description of Suzanne Hiatt papers, 1963-1998 (bulk 1975-1998). (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 68905483 ...

Aéro-Club Suisse.

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Ridlon, John, 1852-1936

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John C. Ridlon (1852-1936) was a physician and surgeon specializing in orthopedic medicine practicing in Chicago, Illinois. From the guide to the John C. Ridlon Papers, 1846-1936 and undated, (David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University) U.S. orthopedic surgeon. From the description of Papers, 1875-1936. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 32140608 ...

Picard family.

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Don Piccard Balloons

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Corrigan, Daniel, 1897-

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Piccard, Jules, b. 1840-

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Ridlen family.

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Carty, Denzil A.

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Denzil Angus Carty was born in St. John's Antigua, British West Indies, on March 30, 1904, the son of Robert A. and Cecil (Edwards) Carty. He was educated in the New York City high schools, the City College of New York, and the General Theological Seminary, New York City, where he studied for the Episcopal priesthood. He also did graduate work at Xavier University (New Orleans) and Wayne State University (Detroit). In the 1930s Carty served three New York City parishes: ...

Swann, W. F. G. (William Francis Gray), 1884-1962

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William Francis Gray Swann was a physicist. From the description of Papers, [ca. 1900]-1962. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122473994 Physicist and historian of science Thomas Darlington Cope received his A.B. (1903) and Ph.D. (1915) from the University of Pennsylvania; he became an instructor and later professor there from 1906-1952. He also studied at the University of Berlin (1912-1913) under Max Planck. From the guide to the Tho...

Piccard, Kathryn Ann

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Zielinski, Francis

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