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Genre/Form: | Personal correspondence Correspondence |
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Named Person: | Charles F Adams; E F W Alexanderson; Edwin H Armstrong; Henry Harley Arnold; Harold Gardiner Bowen; Vannevar Bush; Vannevar Bush; Walter G Cady; Carlo Luigi Calosi; Carlo Luigi Calosi; K T Compton; C S Draper; Ernst A Guillemin; Ernest Joseph King; Alfred L Loomis; Samuel Eliot Morison; Alexander McLean Nicholson; George Washington Pierce; David Rines; Julius Adams Stratton; Robert Alexander Watson-Watt, Sir; Robert Alexander Watson-Watt, Sir; Charles F Adams; E F W Alexanderson; Edwin H Armstrong; Henry Harley Arnold; Harold Gardiner Bowen; Vannevar Bush; Walter G Cady; Carlo Luigi Calosi; K T Compton; C S Draper; Ernst A Guillemin; Ernest Joseph King; Alfred L Loomis; Samuel Eliot Morison; Alexander McLean Nicholson; George Washington Pierce; David Rines; Julius Adams Stratton; Robert Alexander Watson-Watt, Sir |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Archival Material, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Edward Lindley Bowles; Gleason L Archer; George A Campbell; Hammond Vinton Hayes; Harry E Yarnell |
OCLC Number: | 79456446 |
Language Note: | Collection material in English. |
Notes: | Includes papers of Gleason L. Archer, George A. Campbell, Hammond Vinton Hayes, and Harry E. Yarnell. |
Description: | 37,800 items. 108 containers plus 1 classified. 43.2 linear feet. |
Abstract:
Also documents his work as a private consultant for companies and individuals securing or defending patents including Radio Corporation of America, Samson Electric Company, Sperry Gyroscope Company, inc., Stockton Profile Gauge Corporation, United Artists Corporation, E.F.W. Alexanderson, Edwin H. Armstrong, Walter G. Cady, Alexander McLean Nicholson, and George Washington Pierce.
Subjects include Bowles's youth in Westphalia, Mo.; Massachusetts Institute of Technology's electrical engineering program, Round Hill Research Division, and School of Industrial Management, later the Sloan School of Management; the NDRC Radiation Laboratory; Rand Corporation and Project Rand (United States. Air Force); and the Raytheon Company Submarine Signal Division. Subjects also include a broad range of Bowles's personal and professional interests such as the arts; home construction and design; foreign relations; law; science; travel; atomic energy and weapons; military research and strategy, anti-submarine warfare, and development of radar, torpedoes, and other weapons; unification of the armed forces; reform of the patent system; telephone systems and Bell Telephone Company; and television frequency allocations.
Individuals represented include Vannevar Bush, Carlo Luigi Calosi, K.T. Compton, C.S. Draper, Ernst A. Guillemin, Ernest Joseph King, Samuel Eliot Morison, David Rines, and Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt.
Correspondents include Charles F. Adams, Henry Harley Arnold, Harold Gardiner Bowen, Vannevar Bush, Carlo Luigi Calosi, Alfred L. Loomis, Julius Adams Stratton, and Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt.
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