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Materials within this collection includes but is not limited to notebooks, articles, teaching materials, research notes, and interview transcripts produced during Jeanne Shapiro Bamberger's time at MIT. The collection also includes slides as well as audiovisual recordings primarily in casette form.

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The collection documents the professional activities of Jeffrey I. Steinfeld from circa 1962 to 2008.

Materials include: correspondence, research notebooks, reprints, travel and course notes, reports, and files.

Scope and Contents of the Collection Records about Wiesner's activities at MIT include correspondence, memoranda, and reports from the Department of Electrical Engineering, correspondence about his involvement with the Council for the Arts, and information about his fund raising efforts. A tribute from the MIT faculty upon his retirement from the MIT presidency in 1980 is included. Wiesner's consulting to government, industry, private foundations, and other groups such as the President's Science Advisory Committee, 1960-1961,...

Abstract Jerome Clarke Hunsaker, a graduate of the US Naval Academy and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, taught the first course in aeronautical engineering and aviation design at MIT. In 1933 he was made head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, in charge of the course in aeronautical engineering, becoming head of the Department of Aeronautical Engineering when it was founded in 1939. The collection contains correspondence, photographs, and reports on the development of...

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The collection documents the professional activities of Jerome Saltzer from approximately 1965 to 1980.

Materials include: correspondence, Multics systems books and programming manuals, hardware specification books, Multics checkout bulletins, and system programmer's supplement revisions.

Scope and Contents of the Collection The collection of Jerome Sondericker papers contains Sondericker's student notes on geodesic surveying, and an English translation of Jacob Weyrauch's Theory of the Elastic Arch, which Sondericker translated while a student at Illinois Industrial University. Also included is an undated notebook containing the Report on the Uniform Method of Testing Cement, by the Committee of American Society of Chemical Engineers, a translation of a German work by A. Wohler, and drawings and notes on a...

Abstract The collection documents the career of Jerome Y. Lettvin, a cognitive scientist who made important contributions to neurophysiology and vision science. Lettvin came to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1951, joining the Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE), He was professor emeritus of electrical and bioengineering and communications physiology at the time of his death in 2011. His research on optic nerve studies and the physiology and psychology of vision is documented...

Scope and Contents of the Collection Notebooks from the MIT Radiation Laboratory (1942-1947), correspondence about the MIT Laboratory for Nuclear Science and the Brookhaven National Laboratory, and information about his research on atomic clocks and molecular beams document Zacharias's scientific work. There is extensive correspondence with colleagues and professional organizations about scientific and educational issues. Correspondence documents his work on the Physical Science Study Committee and there are reports,...

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The collection documents János Beér's professional activities in the form of research publications spanning the years of 1951 to 2007.

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This collection contains primarily laboratory research notebooks.

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The Joe S. Clark papers contain photographs and Clark's calculations for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) synchrotron which was built between 1946 and 1948. Clark was a physicist and a member of the MIT class of 1937.

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The collection documents the professional activities of Joel Moses and span from approximately 1967 to 1981.

Materials include: correspondence, journals, publications, notes, manuals, transparencies, articles, and notebooks.

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The John Bigelow Jr. personal archives consists of three scrapbooks compiled by Bigelow while he was professor of military science and tactics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and date from 1894 to 1898. The scrapbooks contain letters by and to Bigelow, and ephemera such as invitations, cards, and event related material.

Abstract John C. Purves received an SB in civil engineering in 1918 and an SB in mechanical engineering in 1920 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He founded the Purves Corporation to develop the flux-valve--an electrical coil which senses the direction of magnetic north. The invention was licensed to the Sperry Gyroscope Company in 1940 and became a component of accurate airplane navigational equipment widely used in World War II. The collection includes Purves's correspondence...

Scope and Contents of the Collection Sheehan's work on synthetic penicillin is documented in laboratory notebooks, graphs of spectral analyses, and in his book The Enchanted Ring: The Untold Story of Penicillin (1982). His research is also described in copies of journal articles, talks he gave between 1952 and 1989, and patent files. The collection includes a biography of Sheehan, correspondence with pharmaceutical companies he consulted for, correspondence with colleagues and professional...

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Collection contains John Charles Heine's class materials, which he assembled while a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for classes in mechanical engineering and physics; includes problem sets, examinations, and student notes.

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The collection of John Chipman papers includes research notes and other materials about Chipman's work on steel and alloys. Also contains his reprints, correspondence with colleagues, and course notes from his MIT course 3.21, Principles of Steelmaking. Some information from his work on the Manhattan Project is also included.

Scope and Contents The collection consists mainly of the professional correspondence of John D. Runkle, a professor of mathematics and the second president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The bulk of the incoming correspondence is from William Barton Rogers, MIT’s founder, and his wife, Emma Savage Rogers, concerning MIT. Other prominent correspondents include Robert H. Richards, Charles W. Eliot, Benjamin Pierce, William R. Ware, Albert F. Hall, and T. Sterry Hunt. Letters from Edward...

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The papers document Burchard's professional and, to some extent, personal activities from 1923 to 1975. The bulk of the material dates from 1931 to 1975.

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The collection documents the professional activities of John E. Ward between circa 1940 to 1989.

Materials include: Radiation Laboratory files, printed technical reports and writings by Ward, consulting materials on cable television, correspondence, meetings minutes, and memoranda.

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The collection documents the professional activities of John F. Elliott, a professor of metallurgy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The collection materials span the appromxiate years of 1958 to 1991.

Materials include articles and lectures on metallurgy.

Scope and Contents The collection contains the papers of John G. Trump, 1907-1985, professor of electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). It includes material about Trump's study of the use of energized electrons to disinfect municipal sludge; patents issued to Trump and Robert J. Van de Graaff; and information about Trump's involvement with professional associations and other professional activities.One can also find in this collection administrative and research...

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The collection consists of an audio recording of an interview with Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professor John Harbison on WMBR, the MIT radio station, 9 April 1986. Harbison describes his career and philosophy of music; also includes recorded performances of two of Harbison’s compositions, “Confinement” and Symphony no. 1.

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John Heywood is the Sun Jae Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and the author of Internal Combustion Engine Fundamentals. This collection contains materials pertaining to the writing and publication of Internal Combustion Engine Fundamentals, including notes, drafts, and correspondence.

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The collection documents the professional activities of John J. Hibbert from approximately 1935 to 1946. Materials relate to the Radiation Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and include technical manuals, notebooks, photographs, reports, directories, reprints, and a tribute to Karl Taylor Compton.

Scope and Contents This collection documents the professional activities of John King, professor emeritus of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His papers, spanning from 1935 to 2015, comprise curricula, notes, publications, video, speeches, correspondence, and photographic materials. The bulk of the material concerns the teaching of physics through experiments on both a high school and college level. Course materials in the collection are primarily from introductory physics courses,...

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Collection contains research materials on time and motion study. Included are data on assembly standards and piece rates which appear to have been compiled during a study at a Leominster Massachusetts furniture mill; and an outline of a text used by Kudzma on time study fundamentals.