Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Gas Turbine Laboratory

Scope and Contents note The Edward S. Taylor papers contain material documenting Taylor's professional activities, as well as some personal correspondence. Consulting records, which include correspondence, research notes, reports, and proposals, record the work he did with Bird Machine Campany, 1967-1973; Curtiss-Wright Corporation, 1940-1958; General Electric Company; and Pratt & Whitney Aircraft, 1974-1976. Correspondence, from 1953 to 1974, background material, illustrations, and book reviews relating to his...

Scope and Contents The collection of records of the Gas Turbine Laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology contains proposals, notes, and reports which describe laboratory research on heat transfer in turbines and transonic turbine blades. Also included are conference papers authored by MIT faculty affiliated with the Gas Turbine Laboratory and the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, which have been arranged with other materials pertaining to the conference. The majority of the material...