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The collection comprises materials from the Experimental Study Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) created from 1969 to 1974.

Materials include reports and related materials, responses for Committee on Educational Policy questions, other files, and a writing by George E. valley on his time with the Experimental Study Group.

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The collection documents the professional activities of George Everett Marsh from 1909 to 1950. Materials include typescripts of papers, patent drawings, diagrams, notes, thesis, bibliography of writings and writings on topics in geophysics and electrical engineering.

Scope and Contents of the Collection The collection contains student notes and course notes of George F. Swain from his time at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (approximately mid-1870s to 1919). One volume of course notes from Swain's class "Structures" was owned by John Neil Ferguson, MIT 1894, who worked for the Metropolitan Water Board of Massachusetts and went on to become Chief Engineer for the Division of Waterways. Ferguson's handwritten notes can be found throughout the volume.Also included in the...

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The collection contains professional correspondence, mostly letters of reference for George M.Tompson, and two annotated copies of published engineers' texts.

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The collection consists of correspondence regarding the disappearance and death of George MacKay's son, Master Engineer George Lewis MacKay (Massachusetts Institute of Technology class of 1914), 117th Engineer Regiment, U.S. Army in France. Correspondents include military personnel, Mrs. A. J. George, executive secretary of the War Service Auxiliary of MIT, and MIT professor William H. Lawrence.

Scope and Contents Records about the MIT Centennial and the Spectroscopy Laboratory document Harrison's years at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Technical notebooks, information about Wavelength Tables, correspondence about consulting projects and with professional organizations, working notes, and other material concerning ruling engines for diffraction gratings document Harrison's research. There are copies of his publications and his scientific and popular speeches (1935-1972). Also included are...

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About half of the collection consists of Scatchard’s published works (boxes 3, 5, and 6). The collection also contains biographical material, including a substantial amount of correspondence relating to his awards and honors (boxes 1 and 2). Also included is a photograph album, which contains pictures from his military service, and a few portraits.

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The collection consists of George McLauthlin's class notebooks describing experiments and coursework in biology, chemistry, and metallurgy at the Massachusetts Instittue of Technology.

Abstract The George W. Clark personal archives contains records from George Clark documenting his career and research. Clark was a member of the faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1954 to 1996 in the Department of Physics. He was a leader in high energy astrophysics and cosmic x-ray research and served as the principle investigator for several satellite projects. Clark was a member of several professional science organizations and committees within MIT, as documented in...

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This collection is composed primarily of student notes, mechanical drawings and memorabilia from George W. Hamblet (class of 1888) of student and class activities. There is additional material pertaining to engineering collected by Hamblet in the years following his graduation as well as his class reunion programs. There is a small amount of material from George W. Hamblet, Jr.’s years as a student at MIT (1922-1926) including programs from student plays and newsclippings.

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The collection consists of a scrapbook of advertisements for cameras, equipment, and darkroom chemicals. Also contains correspondence from suppliers to Weeks about the purchase of chemicals and several advertising brochures from the Boston Society for Amateur Photography.

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This collection documents the activities of Gerald Jay Sussman, the Panasonic Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Materials, dating from 1965 to 2003, include course materials, research, and publication and subject files in the field of computer science and artificial intelligence.

Scope and Contents The collection contains Gerard Swope's student notes from a business law course he took at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1893 taught by Louis Brandeis, as well as personal and family correspondence, and biographical material including photographs. Correspondence reflects Swope's professional involvement with Western Electric Company, General Electric Company. It also documents his many philanthropic efforts, particularly in education including the Technion Institute for...

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The collection documents the professional activities of Giorgio Diaz de Santillana from 1905 to 1974. Materials include correspondence, speeches, photographs, slides, notebooks, reports, calendars, reprints, manuscripts, and notes.

Abstract Gordon H. Pettengill, born 1926, was Professor Emeritus in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is known for using radar to map the surface of Venus. The Gordon H. Pettengill personal archives includes research materials relating to projects on Venus, Mars, and Saturn's rings, travel files for conferences and professional organizational meetings, biographical materials, correspondence, teaching and administrative...

Scope and Contents of the Collection The Gordon Stanley Brown collection documents Brown's career as teacher, research engineer, and administrator at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Lecture notes, problem sets, and other teaching materials describe his course Theory and Applications of Servomechanisms, first taught in 1940. A summary of wartime activity, as well as correspondence, describes Brown's role as founder and director of the Servomechanisms Laboratory. Correspondence and reports document his relationship...

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Collection includes musical scores and recordings of compositions by Tucker including dramatic and band compositions, chamber music, pieces for the piano, and works for choruses. Also included are recordings of the MIT Choral Society and Concert Band.

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The György Kepes papers is a collection of materials pertaining to the publication of Kepes's Arts and the Environment volume from the Vision and Value series.

Abstract This collection comprises subject files compiled by Harold "Hal" Abelson, the Class of 1922 Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His field of interest is educational computing and applications of symbolic and numerical computing to science and engineering. Materials in this collection, spanning from approximately 1962 to 2004, are arranged alphabetically. Subject files primarily consist of correspondence, proposals,...

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The collection comprises an audio recording of Hans Bethe's comments as part of the March 4, 1969 MIT panel "Arms Control, Disarmament, and National Security."

Scope and Contents of the Collection Hans-Lukas Teuber's efforts to establish the Department of Psychology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his activities as head ofthe department are documented in correspondence with colleagues, grant and project proposals, committee records, and other administrative correspondence. The collection also includes videotapes, audiotapes, and some transcripts (1968-1976) of lectures Teuber gave at MIT including a complete set of his introductory psychology (course 9.00) lectures....

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The collection consists of research and laboratory notebooks relating to DNA research.

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The collection documents the professional activities of Harald A. Reiche.

Materials include: a files index, correspondence, files, class notes, reprints and photocopies, drafts, and lectures.

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The collection comprises correspondence created by Harold A. Freeman.

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Collection contains printed material relating to tests conducted at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) at the request of the Select Committee on Small Business of the United States Senate concerning effects noted when the battery additive AD-X2 was added to lead acid storage batteries.