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The collection documents the activities of David Staelin from 1965 to 2010.

Materials inlcude: photographs, course materials, articles, and audiovisual media.

Scope and Contents of the Collection The Davis R. Dewey papers document Dewey's personal and professional life. The papers date from 1883 to 1913, the period of his early career as an academic economist. Most of the collection consists of correspondence with Dewey's family; with members of the St. Botolph Club; and with the Alumni Association of the University of Vermont. Of most interest is Dewey's voluminous professional correspondence concerning the affairs of the economics profession, correspondence and clippings...

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The collection documents the professional and personal activities of Denis M. Robinson from 1920 to 1988.

Materials include: correspondence, notebooks, calendars, speeches, talks, and interviews, and slides.

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Combined records of the joint Detroit Institute of Technology - Massachusetts Institute of Technology Title III Grant.

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This collection documents the career of Dietmar Seyferth, Professor Emeritus of Chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The bulk of the collection is composed of articles and reports authored or co-authered by Seyferth, spanning from the 1950s to 2010. Other material includes research notebooks, transparencies, and reprints of publications.

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Donald A. Schön was a member of the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning from 1968 until his death in 1997. The collection documents Schön’s research in organizational theory and urban planning and includes correspondence, publications, research files, reports, and working papers.

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The collection documents the professional activities of Donald Blackmer and spans the approximate years of 1940 to 2010. Materials include: course documents, correspondence, and letters of reference and recommendation. Topics include the Center for International Studies (CIS) and Council for European Studies (CES).

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The majority of the papers of Donald R. F. Harleman consist of correspondence, notes, reports, drafts, conference materials, lecture transcripts, and articles related to Donald Harleman's consulting work involving the prevention of tidal flooding in Venice, Italy. Some reports and publications are in Italian. Also included are several folders related to Harleman's consulting work for Qatar Vinyl Company Ltd. involving its wastewater treatment plant.

Scope and Contents of the Collection The papers were collected by Dorothy Bowe who was centrally involved in issues relating to women at the Masssachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) both formally in staff roles and informally. The material is largely MIT records and was created in the period 1970-1984. The papers provide documentation of a period of change when issues of women students came into focus by those advocating change to increase numbers of women students and address career of women graduates. Included in the...

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The collection contains biographical information about Dorothy Weeks, a physicist, and the first woman to receive a PhD in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The collection also includes material about the women who gathered in summer terms at MIT in the late 1940s to work with George Harrison in the spectroscopy lab on compiling wave length tables.

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The collection comprises material from both Douglas Ross and SofTech, and spans the period of approximately 1945 to 2007.

Materials include: correspondence, reports, documentation, and project files.

Abstract The collection documents the career of Dugald C. Jackson, a member of the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1907 to 1935. Correspondence, reports, and other materials document Jackson's years as head of the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering, his innovations in the department and the undergraduate curriculum, the establishment of a cooperative education program (course 6-A), and his work on MIT committees. His work as a consulting engineer and inventor is...

Scope and Contents This collection documents the career of E. Cary Brown, professor emeritus of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Brown was a member of the faculty at MIT from 1947 to 2007. He specialized in the field of fiscal policy and taxation. Materials in this collection, spanning 1940 to 2001, comprise correspondence, speeches, teaching materials, research, manuscripts, and publications. The bulk of the correspondence in the collection dates from between the 1950s and 1980s,...

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The collection documents the activities of E. Eugene "Gene" Larrabee between the approximate years of 1947 to 2001.

Materials include: correspondence, memoranda, drafts, reports, course notes, and publications.

Scope and Contents of the Collection The volume consists of E. L. Cochrane's undated student notes from courses taken at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) entitled "Warship Design"; "Anchor windlass, Rudder, Steering arrangements, Third Term, 1920"; "Warship Design Notes, History, Captain William Hovgaard"; "Vibration and Pitching of Ships, 3rd Term, 1920"; "Introduction to Design, Naval Oil Tankers, Captain Hovgaard, 2d term, 1920"; "Merchant Ship Building, Professor Jack, First Term, 1919-1920"; and lecture...

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The collection consists of four folders, three of which contain old exams and suggested questions, and one that contains materials relating to Hartley’s work on the Humanities Department Policy Committee from 1959 to 1960.

Scope and Contents of the Collection The ESI-PSSC-EDC collection is a partial record of some of the major activities of these groups in the areas of curriculum development and educational reform. The records cover the period 1957-1970 and include the beginnings of the PSSC Physics text (which preceded the formation of ESI), the merger of ESI with the Institute for Educational Innovation to form EDC in 1967 and the activities of that group until 1970. The collection has been arranged in two series. Series I...

Scope and Contents of the Collection A highlight of this collection is the lecture outlines and problem sets for courses in physics taught by Charles E. Pickering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology between 1867 and 1869. Lecture topics include hydrodynamics, hydrostatics, mechanics, heat, and optics. Notes include some student lists and grades. The collection also includes several articles and a pamphlet authored by Pickering about activities at the Harvard College Observatory. There is also biographical materials as...

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The collection documents the activities of Edward Cohen and spans the years of approximately 1970 to 2000. Materials include scores, sketches, and reel-to-reel tapes.

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The collection documents the professional activities of Edward E. David, Jr. from 1950 to 1994. Materials in the collection are primarily files, with some correspondence, reports, budgets, and memoranda. Topics include NATO, the White House, Exxon, and Bell Labs.

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Collection includes articles, addresses, photographs, and a partial draft of Warner's book tentatively titled Design of Airships.

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The collection consists primarily of reprints of Edward Phelps Allis's articles on the morphology and paleontology of marine life, 1909-1938. Also included are a few brief biographical pieces about the Allis family and Edward Allis.

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The Edward S.Philbrick Collection consists of correspondence, notes, and calculations relating to specifications for a sewer system for the town of Brookline (Mass.), circa 1870.

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...

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The collection comprises reprints dating from between 1865 to 1922. The reprints cover a wide spectrum of topics including biology, sociology, and public health.