Scope and Contents This archive represents a small, but very important portion of documentation available of the architect Hisham Munir's records, which includes oral history recordings, records concerning the content covered in the interviews (such as illustrations or notes), several texts, and descriptions of projects provided by Hisham Munir. The interviews with Hisham Munir were conducted by Michael Kubo and Michael A. Toler on April 11 and 12, 2015. There are unpublished notes kept during...

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Holliday C. Heine's class materials, which she assembled while a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), include course materials, primarily containing student notes; laboratory notebooks; examinations; and problem sets, mostly in biology and biochemistry. Also included are materials from courses in physics, mathematics, chemistry, economics, and music.

Scope and Contents of the Collection Much of the collection, which was retained in the chronological sequence Bond used, documents his professional career with the National Fire Protection Association, as an engineer, then as chief engineer, and later as a consulting engineer. As chief engineer of the NFPA, Bond represented the association on several boards concerned with civil defense and advised the Atomic Energy Commission from 1947 to 1953. Included in the collection are pocket calendars which record daily professional and...

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The collection consists of an address by Carson on the general plan of instruction at MIT with specific references to civil engineering. The address was probably delivered before a meeting of the Alumni Association on January 18, 1877.

Scope and Contents of the Collection This collection documents the career of Howard Brenner, a member of the faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1981 to 2014 in the Department of Chemical Engineering. Materials in this collection span from approximately the 1950s to 2014, and include biographical information, correspondence, student notes, course material, conference presentations, research files, and publications. His main area of study was fluid dynamics, including research in low Reynolds number...

Scope and Contents of the Collection This collection consists of Howard W. Johnson's personal papers and reflects his activities beyond his official positions of president of MIT and MIT corporation chair. The official administrative records from his tenure as president of MIT, and then chair of the Corporation of MIT form a separate collection in the Institute Archives and Special Collections. The collection contains files pertaining to Howard Johnson's service on various boards of directors and overseers in both...

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The collection comprises an audio recording of a meeting at the Economic Club of New York on March 3, 1970 at the Waldorf-Astoria. Gavin K. MacBain presided over the meeting. Howard W. Johnson and Maurice H. Stans delivered speeches. John L. Cobb and John Davenport comprised the question and answer panel.

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The papers of Hoyt C. Hottel, professor of chemical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, document his research in fuels and solar energy and includes correspondence, reports, and publications. Also included are course notes and materials on his work with the National Defense Research Committee (NDRC) during World War II.

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The collection documents the professional activities of Hugh J. Miser from approximately 1940 to 1999. Materials include correspondence, photographs, memorabilia, and subject files.

Abstract The collection documents the career of meteorologist Hurd C. Willett, who was a member of the faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1929 to 1988. Correspondence, grant proposals, reports, and data document Willett's research in long-range weather forecasting, climate fluctuations and trends, sea level pressure anomalies, and temperature changes. Also included are reprints of Willett's writings on fog and haze, solar variability, sunspots and ozone, and general...

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Collection includes letters from John Corrin Hutchinson to Ruth S. H. Van Hoesen concerning Margaret Hutchinson's marriage to Karl Taylor Compton and other family matters; and letters to John Hutchinson from his former colleagues at the University of Minnesota containing anecdotal and biographical information on Hutchinson's tenure as professor of Greek literature.

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The collection consists of two books written by I. Austin Kelly III in 1986.

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The collection includes drafts of articles and case studies for a proposed second volume written by project staff concerning the effects of Proposition 2 1/2 on local governments in Massachusetts. Also included is the project newsletter, Impact: 2 1/2.

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This collection includes more than 400 independently produced tarot decks from 1992-2019. The decks are mainly contemporary and artist-made and are spiritually and religiously diverse. The collection focuses on radical feminist, POC, and queer themes in particular.

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Collection consists of cassettes and a transcript of an interview of Arthur Porter by Mark D. Bowles of Case Western Reserve University, February 6, 1995. The purpose of the interview was to learn about Porter's observations of the differential analyzer in both Britain, where he worked with Douglas Hartree, and the United States where he worked with Vannevar Bush.

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The collection consists of an audio recording of the interview of Howard Johnson by John Matill on August 16, 1983.

Scope and Contents of the Collection The collection consists of a 50-minute interview with Philip Morrison conducted by David Suzuki on November 23, 1981, for the Canadian Broadcasting Company program The Nature of Things. Topics discussed in the interview include Morrison's early interest in physics and his work on the Manhattan Project to build an atomic bomb during World War II, his account of the first atomic bomb test at Los Alamos, wartime military intelligence work, and his participation in the army's mission to Japan...

Scope and Contents Sixth annual MIT Thorne-Loomis tour to Europe, sponsored by the Thorne-Loomis Foundation for Course 15 students. Contents: Europe #1, Europe #2, two 14 inch rolls of 16mm movie films of the trip, summer 1938. The film was taken by Ira Lohman, class of 1938, one of 15 MIT undergraduate students to travel through Europe in the summer of 1938 with the purpose of inspecting 23 factories in ten countries.The following countries or regions were visited: England, Scotland, Norway,...

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A group of Iraqi journals on Engineering and Art, that were puchased together from a private collector.

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The collection consists of letters from Tsien's MIT students Chang assembled in preparation for writing her book Thread of the Silkworm.

Abstract The collection documents the career of Irving Ballard Crosby, 1891-1959, a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and son of William Otis Crosby, a professor of geology at MIT. Irving Crosby was an engineering geologist who specialized in water supply problems. Correspondence, reports, graphs, illustrations, and photographs document his geological consulting projects, including the Passamaquoddy Tidal Power Project in Maine and other projects relating to dam sites,...

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The colleciton of Iriving Kaplan's course notes contains bound course notes, lectures, and problem sets used by Kaplan for courses in reactor physics and nuclear physics in the Department of Nuclear Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Scope and Contents The Irving M. London personal archives includes professional files from Irving M. London documenting his career from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons to his teaching and adminstrative work for the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology (HST). Materials include London's student notebooks; lab notebooks from his research and time teaching at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons; Paris notebooks from the late 1940s to the early 1950s; an...

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The collection documents the professional activities of Irving Singer from approximately 1950 to 2009.

Materials include: reports, writings, including drafts and proofs, reprints, notes, and program materials.

Scope and Contents The Irwin A. Pless papers comprises materials on the Large Volume Detector (LVD) collaboration, a particle physics experiment in the Gran Sasso laboratory in Italy and is operated by the Italian Institute of Nuclear Physics. Also included in the collection are materials on the Precision Encoding and Pattern Recognition (PEPR) device development records and Data Analysis System, as well as records relating to the history of bubble chambers. Materials in the collection date from 1964 to...