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Edward C. Polhamus Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1990-051
Abstract

Edward C. Polhamus (1923-2001) was an aeronautical engineer active in aerodynamics research related to the development of high-speed aircraft. The collection include reprints of articles and reports by Polhamus, correspondence, notebooks, photographs relating to his patents, and materials relating to his Wright Brothers lectureship.

Dates: 1962 - 1986

James Robbins Randolph Papers

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Identifier: Ms-1971-001
Abstract

This collection consists of the papers of engineer, mathematician and physicist James Robbins Randolph, including notes, calculations, correspondence and writings.

Dates: 1922 - 1969

Reed Precision Identifiers for Airplanes

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2024-058
Abstract

This collection consists of three volvelles manufactured by the Electric Corporation of America that were used to identify American, German, British, Italian, and Japanese aircraft.

Dates: ca. 1941-1945

Rockwell International, Collins General Aviation Division Publications

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1994-012
Abstract

This collection includes twenty-one booklets from the Collins General Aviation Division of Rockwell International contain information regarding products of the division, such as Electronic Flight Instrument system and Weather Radar systems. One booklet is from Dorne & Margolin, Inc., about their antennas and accessories.

Dates: 1979 - 1984

Donald K. "Deke" Slayton Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2023-058
Abstract This collection contains materials belonging to American astronaut, Donald K. "Deke" Slayton (1924-1993). This collection contains materials about the Apollo-Soyuz Program, programs and invitations to events, photographs, a map of Moscow, and newspaper clippings. Slayton was one of the first seven American astronauts, selected by NASA as part of the Mercury 7. He flew on the Apollo-Soyuz Progam mission, where American astronauts and Soviet cosmonauts docked together and completed several...
Dates: 1974-1979, 1995

Hartley A. Soule Papers

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Identifier: Ms-1987-004
Abstract

The collection includes research files, personal notes, film scripts, and publications collected by Soule, an aerospace engineer, on the fields of aviation, aeronautics, and aerospace, particularly on the NACA and NASA programs, including the X-1 and X-15 jets, and the Mercury and Gemini space programs.

Dates: 1950 - 1967

Robert Eldred Taylor Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1994-033
Abstract

This collection consists of the selective service records of Robert Eldred Taylor of Larned, Kansas, during World War II. This includes materials such as Taylor's Aviation Cadet Training Rejection, an honorable discharge certificate, and a later letter explaining that he may be eligible for army duty. Other materials include a flight chart of Central America and a certificate of recognition for completion of the Gulf Sea Frontier Transport Pilot Course.

Dates: 1942 - 1948

Earl A. Thornton Papers

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Identifier: Ms-2010-026
Abstract

The collection includes research files, personal notes, audio recordings, videocassettes, photographs, and publications collected by engineer and professor Earl A. Thornton on the fields of aviation, aeronautics, and aerospace.

Dates: 1885 - 2000

John W. Townsend, Jr., Papers

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Identifier: Ms-1990-068
Abstract This collection contains six boxes of John W. Townsend, Jr.'s personal and professional papers from 1949 until his retirement from corporate and government aerospace work in 1990. In addition to professional correspondence, memos, and subject files, there are extensive travel files from 1949-1968 and 1985-1990, congressional testimony on NASA projects from 1982-1986, and files on the history of the Upper Air Rocket Research Program at the Naval Research Laboratory from about 1956-1958....
Dates: 1949 - 1990

Marjorie Rhodes Townsend Papers

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Identifier: Ms-1986-003
Abstract Marjorie Rhodes Townsend (1930-2015) was the first women to earn an engineering degree at George Washington University, receiving her Bachelor of Electrical Engineering in 1951. After eight years at the Naval Research Laboratory, she moved to National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)'s Goddard Space Flight Center in 1959, where she worked until 1980. Townsend was project manager for three Small Astronomy Satellites (SAS, 1966-1975) and for Applications Explorer Missions...
Dates: 1960-1994, n.d.

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Avitabile, James J. 1
Bierman, David 1
Blasingame, B. P. (Benjamin Paul), 1919- 1
Cahill, Edward H. 1
Christopher, George William, 1908-2002 1
Clark, Evert, 1925-1988 1
Clark, Jeanette (Drury) 1
Clark, John A. 1
Clark, John D., 1907-1988 1
Corson, Blake W. 1
Dean, James D. 1
Draper, C. S. (Charles Stark), 1901-1987 1
Duberg, John E. (John Edward), 1917-2002 1
Duce, G. Grahame 1
Gough, Melvin N. (Melvin Neilson), 1906-1994 1
Herrick, Samuel, 1911-1974 1
Hill, Paul R., 1909-1990 1
Kelley, H. J. (Henry Joseph), 1926-1988 1
Langley Aeronautical Laboratory 1
Lawson, Alfred W. (Alfred William), 1869-1954 1
Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center (1973-) 1
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McLean, F. Edward 1
Ottinger, C. Wayne 1
Page, Thornton L., 1913-1996 1
Parker, Otis Jerome, 1918-1995 1
Parker, W. Dale (William Dale), 1925-2007 1
Parsons, John T., 1913-2007 1
Phillips, William H. (William Hewitt), 1918-2009 1
Project Mercury (U.S.) 1
Randolph, James Robbins, 1891-1969 1
Rockwell International 1
Slayton, Donald K. (Donald Kent), 1924-1993 1
Taylor, Robert Eldred 1
Thornton, Earl A. (Earl Arthur), 1936- 1
Townsend, John W., Jr. (John William), 1924-2011 1
Townsend, Marjorie Rhodes, 1930-2015 1
United States. Civil Aeronautics Board 1
United States. Federal Aviation Agency 1
University of Virginia 1
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