diaries
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Scope Note: Refers to books containing the daily, personal accounts of the writer's own experiences, attitudes, and observations. Use "journals (accounts)" when referring to an individual's or an organization's account of occurrences or transactions.
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Beaumert H. Whitton diary and photographs of Thorne-Loomis Trip through Industrial America
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 39080024709757]
Identifier: MC-0111
Scope and Contents of the Collection
The Beaumert H. Whitton collections consists of photographs and a diary by Whitton of a trip taken with other Massachusetts Institute of Technology students from Boston to Minneapolis, Birmingham, Ala., and back to Boston during which they visited manufacturing plants and military facilities. This trip occured from June 13, 1932 to July 24, 1932, covered 5,500 miles, 23 states in the United States, and visits to 30 plants. Site visits are described in the diary, and photographs complement...
Dates:
1932, 1959
Francis Bitter papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MC-0077
Abstract
These papers document the career of Francis Bitter, who helped establish the National Magnet Laboratory at MIT. The bulk of the collection postdates 1934, when Bitter came to MIT. The papers consist primarily of correspondence with colleagues, professional societies, and concerns that hired him as a consultant.
Dates:
1925 - 1967
Harold E. Edgerton, High-Speed Motion Pictures of Insects, Used from June 1938 to December 22, 1939, and from 1948 to 1989
Digital Record
Identifier: MC0025_401719
Dates:
1938 - 1989
Harold E. Edgerton papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MC-0025
Abstract
Research materials, laboratory notebooks, correspondence, autobiographical materials, audio and video recordings of Harold E. Edgerton, professor of electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1928 to 1966, Institute Professor from 1966 to 1968, and Institute Professor Emeritus from 1968 to 1990. Edgerton perfected the stroboscope and developed photographic techniques that allowed very rapid events to be observed and captured on film. He also developed techniques...
Dates:
1889 - 1999
Robert H. Richards papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MC-0116
Scope and Contents of the Collection
Of interest in the collection are materials documenting instruction in mining and metallurgy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology during the beginning years of the Institute. Instruction in the mining course consisted of lectures, laboratory work, and a summer school. Diaries record information about the summer school mining trips taken under the direction of Robert Richards. Some of the diaries are written by Richards, other diaries were kept by students for the school. The diary...
Dates:
1871 - 1914
Samuel M. Felton diary and student notes
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 39080022094541]
Identifier: MC-0452
Scope and Contents of the Collection
The collection consists of the diary of Samuel M. Felton, a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The diary covers the time period June 10, 1872 to July 16, 1872, describing his travels through Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky, Missouri, Colorado, and the Rocky Mountains. The diary includes sketches of bridges and a list entitled "Dimensions of some of the longest - spans in the country - Trusses," which gives names, location, number of spans and length of eight bridges of the...
Dates:
1872 - 1872
William Otis Crosby papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MC-0068
Scope and Contents of the Collection
The bulk of the collection of the papers of William O. Crosby consists of correspondence and geological research as well as reports of consulting projects on sites in Boston, New England, Long Island, Colorado, Alaska, western United States mines, and other US locations, maps of the Massachusetts area by Crosby, bibliographies, reports, reprints, and printed material. Plans and maps of the "New Technology," the new campus for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, made by...
Dates:
1873 - 1931
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