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Junius Blair Fishburn Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1958-001
Abstract

The papers include a typescript report on the Fishburn Price Mountain coal property in Montgomery County, Virginia, and a letter by Fishburn regarding the property.

Dates: 1940 - 1947

Food and Agricultural Education Information System Reports

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Identifier: Ms-2008-094
Abstract

The collection contains statistical data compiled by the Food and Agricultural Education Information System regarding college enrollment and degrees in such majors as Agriculture, Family and Consumer Science, Forestry, Home Economics, and Renewable Natural Resources.

Dates: [1981]-2001

Willis E. Franklin Patent

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1967-001
Abstract

This collection contains an 1872 patent transfer for Movable Comb Bee-Hives to Willis E. Franklin from Lorenzo L. Langstroth, the inventor of the modern Langstroth beehive.

Dates: 1872

Chapman J. French Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2009-034
Abstract

The collection contains papers of Chapman J. French, civil engineer employed by Norfolk & Western Railway from 1903 to 1950. It includes correspondence, memoranda, working notes, and specifications for projects as well as company and engineering department procedures. Also includes personal papers, largely relating to purchases for household and farm.

Dates: 1903 - 1957

Hermann Fricke Manuscript

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Identifier: Ms-2008-062
Abstract

This collection contains German cosmologist Hermann Fricke's manuscript of "Eine Neue Sonnentheorie" from 1932 utilizes Sir William Siemens and William Herschel's ideas on sun spots and the solar corona to suggest new theoretical perspectives on the sun's relationship to the atmosphere.

Dates: 1932

Robert R. Gilruth Papers

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Identifier: Ms-1990-053
Abstract

The collection consists of Robert R. Gilruth's papers, notes, records, articles, photographs, awards, degrees, certificates, and artifacts from 1936-1989.

Dates: 1936 - 1989

Irving J. Good Papers

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Identifier: Ms-1982-018
Abstract

The Irving J. Good Papers, 1925-2004, consist of thirty-six bound volumes of photocopied articles reviews, interviews, correspondence, and lectures, created and complied by Good, a British mathematician and codebreaker during WWII, and Emeritus University Distinguished Professor at Virginia Tech. The collection also includes research notes, bibliographies of works, and correspondence.

Dates: 1925 - 2004

Melvin N. Gough Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1987-057
Abstract

The Melvin N. Gough Papers span from 1919 to 1971 and include a wide variety of materials reflecting Gough's career as a test pilot, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) administrator, and flight safety investigator. Types of materials include NACA and Advisory Group for Aerospace Research and Development (AGARD) reports and documents, articles, correspondence, notes and speeches, and newspaper and magazine clippings.

Dates: 1919 - 1971

Roger L. Griffith Papers

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Identifier: Ms-2022-001
Abstract Roger L. Griffith (1934-2018) received his bachelors degree in chemical engineering from Virginia Tech. He worked for several small engineering firms, fifteen years for the Tennessee Valley Authority, and his own engineering firm in Alabama. The collection documents Griffith's career containing blueprints, academic papers, experiment results and data, documents from his work with different engineering firms, governmental reports, and documents relating to his work in foreign countries. The...
Dates: 1952 - 2008

George Grigg and John Carnochan Papers

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Identifier: Ms-2017-006
Abstract

This collection includes documents related to the production and dissemination of George Grigg's and John Carnochan's computer-animated film, produced while students at Virginia Tech from 1969 through 1970 using FORTRAN.

Dates: Majority of material found within circa 1960s-2015

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Virginia Polytechnic Institute (1944-1970) 31
Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute (1896-1944) 29
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (1970-) 24
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration 18
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Norfolk and Western Railway Company (1896-1982) 4
Project Apollo (U.S.) 4
Kraft, Christopher C. (Christopher Columbus), 1924-2019 3
Project Gemini (U.S.) 3
Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College (1872-1896) 3
American Brake Shoe Company 2
Audubon, John James, 1785-1851 2
Avery, Howard S. (Howard Shaeffer), 1906-1996 2
Becker, John V. (John Vernon), 1913-2020 2
Collins, Michael, 1930-2021 2
Gilruth, Robert R. (Robert Rowe), 1913-2000 2
Lee, John A. N. 2
Massey, A. B. (Arthur Ballard) 2
Polhamus, Edward C. (Edward Charles), 1923-2001 2
Soule, Hartley A. (Hartley Aiken), 1904-1988 2
Virginia Junior Academy of Sciences 2
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. College of Arts and Sciences (1970-2003) 2
Albert, John Joseph, 1935-1978 1
Alexander, Samuel Adam, 1941- 1
Alford, William J., Jr., 1924-2010 1
Alwood, William Bradford, 1859-1946 1
Appalachian Electric Power Company (1926-1958) 1
Appalachian Power Company 1
Atlantic Telegraph Company (Limited) 1
Avitabile, James J. 1
Babcock & Wilcox Company 1
Babineau, David E. 1
Bailey, Harold H. (Harold Harris), 1878-1962 1
Baily, Joseph T. 1
Baldwin, Robert E. 1
Barnett, John W. 1
Battle, John Stewart, 1890-1972 1
Bertha Mineral Company 1
Bierman, David 1
Blacksburg Electronic Village 1
Blasingame, B. P. (Benjamin Paul), 1919- 1
Bluefield College (Bluefield, Va.) 1
Bozovaisky, Luben Spasoff, 1912-1990 1
Brooke, Henry 1
Brown, Ralph Minthorne, 1878-1958 1
Burke, J. A., Jr. (Jerry Allen) 1
Butterworth, J. M. (Joseph Millard), 1893-1942 1
Cahill, Edward H. 1
Carnochan, John 1
Christopher, George William, 1908-2002 1
Cincinnati & Eastern Railroad Company 1
Clark, Evert, 1925-1988 1
Clark, Jeanette (Drury) 1
Clark, John A. 1
Clark, John D., 1907-1988 1
Claytor, Robert B. (Robert Buckner), 1922-1993 1
Claytor, W. Graham (William Graham), 1886-1971 1
Collins, George 1
Cooper, Byron Nelson, 1912-1971 1
Corson, Blake W. 1
Cresson, John H. 1
D'Invilliers, Edward 1
Dean, James D. 1
Drake, Charles Roy, 1918- 1
Draper, C. S. (Charles Stark), 1901-1987 1
Drinkard, Alfred Washington, Jr. 1
Duberg, John E. (John Edward), 1917-2002 1
Duce, G. Grahame 1
Elliot, Alma P. 1
Faraday, Richard 1
Fenne, Sanford Bernell, 1903-1978 1
Field, Cyrus W. (Cyrus West), 1819-1892 1
Fishburn, Junius Blair 1
Food and Agricultural Education Information System (Texas A & M University) 1
Fox, Joseph A., 1934- 1
Foy, Chester L., 1928- 1
Franklin, Willis E. 1
French, Chapman J. (Chapman Johnston) 1
Fricke, Hermann, 1876-1949 1
Geological Survey. Water Resources Division (U.S.) 1
Good, Irving John, 1924-2009 1
Gough, Melvin N. (Melvin Neilson), 1906-1994 1
Grigg, George C. 1
Gross, Al, d.2000 1
Gruenhagen, Richard H. 1
Hagans, Harrison, 1796-1867 1
Harper, Robert Almer, 1862-1946 1
Hatzios, Kriton K., 1949-2003 1
Henderson, Robert Gordon, 1903-1989 1
Herrick, Samuel, 1911-1974 1
Hickey, Kenneth D. 1
Hill, Paul R., 1909-1990 1
Holden, Roy Jay, 1870-1945 1
Horsfall, Frank, Jr., 1903-1988 1
Hsieh, Alice Langley, 1922-1979 1
Hussey, Robert E. (Robert Elliot), 1888-1985 1
International Business Machines Corporation 1
International Conference on High Energy Physics 1
Jacocks, Henry Morgan, 1878-1950 1
Jenkins, Wilbert Armande, 1905-1956 1
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