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 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 165 Collections and/or Records:

William Logan Threlkeld Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1975-005
Abstract

This collection contains the papers of William Logan Threlkeld, professor of zoology and biology at Virginia Polytechnic Institute (1929-1958), including biographical materials, personal and professional correspondence, research files, and printed materials.

Dates: 1919 - 1974

John W. Townsend, Jr., Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1990-068
Abstract This collection contains NASA administrator and physicist John W. Townsend, Jr.'s (1924-2011) 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...
Dates: 1949 - 1990

Marjorie Rhodes Townsend Papers

 Collection
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.

Transcript

 Digital Record
Identifier: Ms1997_011_PandapasJames_Transcript

Clarence Trent Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1985-010
Abstract

The collection comprises the papers of Clarence E. Trent, having to do with his involvement in American Society of Mechanical Enginners, the Lutheran Campus Ministry at Virginia Polytechnic Institute (VPI), and his engineering education.

Dates: 1958 - 1991

"Twenty-Five Years of FORTRAN" (Exhibit, 1957-1982) International Business Machines Corporation Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1983-003
Abstract

Pioneer Day was celebrated on June 9, 1982, at the National Computer Conference in honor of the 25th anniversary of the delivery of the first FORTRAN compiler. As part of the celebration IBM created and displayed this exhibit. Materials include photographs of FORTRAN pioneers, facsimiles of documents, textual analysis, flow charts, memorabilia, FORTRAN manuals and other publications, and a twelve-minute videotape on the history of FORTRAN.

Dates: 1982

Grover W. Underhill Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1987-014
Abstract

The collection consists of a text from radio talk titled "The Insect Menace to Log Cabins and Rustic Woodwork," given by entomologist Grover W. Underhill in 1935.

Dates: 1935

Union Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft Company Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1987-037
Abstract

Photograph album contains 202 images from the Union Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft Company factory in Berlin, Germany, showing factory interior and exterior views, a cable car, and various company products, including meters and generators.

Dates: n.d.

Ventilating Rocking Churn Patent,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2012-044
Abstract

The collection contains a handwritten copy of 1848 patent for a ventilating rocking butter churn.

Dates: 1848

Vine and Ashmead Patent

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1986-014
Abstract

This collection contains a patent awarded to William Vine and James H. Ashmead for "machines beating gold".

Dates: 1850