Papers, 1890-1997

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Radiation Laboratory

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Division 1 Business Division 2 Buildings and Maintenance Division 3 Personnel and Shops Division 4 Research Division 5 Transmitter Components ...

Hoffleit, Dorrit, 1907-2007

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Ellen Dorrit Hoffleit was born on March 12, 1907, on her parents' farm in Florence, Alabama. Her parents, Fred and Kate Sanio Hoffleit, had emigrated from Germany, and her father worked intermittently as a bookkeeper for the Pennsylvania Railroad. While he preferred farm work, it was not possible to support the family this way, and they relocated from Alabama to New Castle, Pennsylvania. Fred Hoffleit later returned to the farm, while his wife opted to remain in New Castle, judging...

Thomas, Helen Meriwether Lewis

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Radcliffe College. Class of 1928

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Shaplow, Harley, 1885-1972.

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St. Catherine's School

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Yūseishō Denpa Kenkyūjo (Japan)

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The Radio Research Laboratory was established in 1942 to develop countermeasures to radar. It was operated by Harvard University during World War II under contract with the U.S. Office of Scientific Research and Development. Frederick Emmons Terman was the laboratory's director. From the description of Records of the Radio Research Laboratory, Harvard University, 1942-1946. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972625 The Radio Research Laboratory (RRL) was established...

Sarton, George, 1884-1956

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Historian of science, George Alfred Leon Sarton was born on August 31, 1884, in Ghent, Belgium. He studied the natural sciences at the University of Ghent, and received his D.Sc. in 1911. Escaping to England before World War I, Sarton then came to the United States in 1915. After spending some time in lecturing positions, Sarton came to Harvard University in 1920, was made a full professor there in 1940 and retired in 1951 when he was made professor emeritus. He was founder of th...

Helen Meriwether Lewis Thomas

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Helen Meriwether Lewis Thomas was born in New York City on August 21, 1905, to Helen Burdick Lewis and Charles Henry Lewis, Jr. She was graduated from St. Catherine's School in Westhampton, Richmond, Virginia in 1924 and from Radcliffe College in 1928. As an undergraduate at Radcliffe, Helen Meriwether Lewis Thomas studied astronomy and after graduation she worked on variable stars at the Harvard College Observatory. She married Frederick M. Thomas soon after graduation ...

Trans world airlines

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Trans World Airlines, formerly Transcontinental & Western Air, was founded in 1930 by a merger of Pittsburgh Aviation Industries, Western Express, and T.A.T.- Maddox Airlines (founded in 1929 by Charles Lindbergh). Trans World Airlines began all-air coast to coast commercial service in 1930-1931 and was built into an aviation giant by Howard Hughes. TWA merged with American Airlines in 2001. From the description of Trans World Airlines records, 1929-1982 (bulk 1944-1970). (Univer...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research Laboratory of Electronics.

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