Silvio A Bedini (b. 1917), an historian and author, attended Columbia University, 1935-1942, and received a LLD from the University of Bridgeport in 1970. In 1961, he began his career at the Smithsonian Institution as Curator in the Museum of History and Technology (MHT), Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering. By 1965, Bedini became Assistant Director of MHT, and in 1972 was appointed Deputy Director of the National Museum of History and Technology. Following his tenure as Deputy Director, he served as Keeper of the Rare Books at the Dibner Library from 1978 until his retirement in 1987. Bedini is currently Historian Emeritus at the Smithsonian, a title he has held since retiring. During his long association with the Institution he has authored more than twenty books and countless articles, particularly on the history of science, and is a leading authority on the life of Thomas Jefferson.

Material primarily includes Bedini's correspondence and memoranda with Smithsonian colleagues, scholars, professional organizations, publishers, and the general public documenting his research activities for special projects and publications. Also includes Bedini's publications; book reviews; research notes; photographs of scientific instruments, individuals, and exhibitions; copies of primary and secondary sources; and biographical information.

Box 1 of 26

Bedini's Publications, c. 1962-1992

• Exposition Books
• Holy Smoke
• We Declare Independence
• That Awful Stage
• The Tube of Long Vision
• An Early Optical Lens - Grinding Lathe
• A Renaissance Lapidary Lathe
• G. Campani, Pioneer: Optical Inventor
• Giuseppe Campani: Pioneer Inventor
• Contributo di Giuseppe Campani alla Scienza Ottica
• The Clock of Death
• Chinese Mechanical Clocks
• The Cobbler's Clockwork
• The Borghesi Astronomical Clock
• La biblioteca Di Bernardo Facini
• XIVth and XVth Century Public Clocks of the Papal Marches
• Scent of Time
• Rolling Ball Clocks in England
• Perpetuum Mobile
• Thomas Jefferson, Clock Designer
• 17th Century Magnetic Timepieces
• Science and Liberty: The Scientific Instruments of King's College and 18th Century Columbia College in New York
• The Evolution of Science Museums
• Die Mechanische Uhr in Japan und China
• Compass Cord of Paul Revere
• Early American Surveyors
  
• Galileo Galilei and Time Measurement
• Galileo Galilei and the Measure of Time
• Galilean Jovilabe
• The Makers of Galileo's Scientific Instruments
  
• Scientific Instruments of Lewis & Clark Expedition
  
• The 17th Century Table Clepsydra
  
• Evolution of Science Museums
  
• Vatican Library Archives
  
• Johann Wolfgang Gello of Ulm
  
• Godfather of American Invention
  
• The Dentzel Brothers of Ulm
  
• The Perspective Machine of Wentzel Jamnitzer
  
• Lens Making for Scientific Instrumentation in the 17th century
  
• Bramante and the de'Dondi Astrarium
  
• Instrumentation
  

Box 2 of 26

• Oriental Concepts of the Measure of Time
  
• Agent for the Archduke
  
• The Unfinished Utrecht Quadrant
  
• The Instruments of Galileo Galilei
  
• Papal Pachyderms
  
• Pectoral Cross Watch of Pope Pius VII
  
• Peter Hill: Clockworker
  
• Time and Light
  
• Andrew Ellicott: Surveyor of the Wilderness (printed copies)
  
• Andrew Ellicott: Surveyor of the Wilderness (photocopies and original in publication)
  
• The Aerial Telescope
  
• Telescope Tubes in the 17th Century
  
• The Practical Science in the American Revolution
  
• The Strange Adventure of Lafayette's Stolen Watch
  
• The Pocahontas Watch
  
• The Tinkers Timepiece
  
• Vatican Astrological Paintings
  
• Vatican Library and Archives
  
• Benjamin Banneker and the Survey of the District of Columbia, 1791
  
• D.C. Washington Markers
  
• Articles [two folders]
  
• Derek J. Desolla Price, 1922-1961
  
• Miscellaneous Articles and Correspondence, 1965-1974

Box 3 of 26

Ellicott Research

• Ellicott Items
  
• Correspondence: A-H, 1971-1980 [two folders]
  
• Correspondence: I-Q, 1971-1980
  
• Correspondence: R-Z, 1971-1984
  
• Correspondence, 1986
  
• Photographs: Joseph Ellicott [?], etc.
  
• Articles/Publication, c. 1978-1979 [two folders]
  
• Clocks: Joseph Ellicott, 1988
  
• Compass, Surveying (Metal) Andrew Ellicott
  
• Joseph Ellicott Research Material, c. 1979
  
• Photographs:
  Adams Circle
  Zenith Sector
  Ellicott, Andrew: Copying Press
  Altitude Instrument
  Seal of Andrew Ellicott
  Andrew Ellicott Surveying Compass
  Seal, Andrew Ellicott
  Telescope
  Ellicott, Andrew Letters found in copying press
  Andrew Ellicott Portrait
  Unlabelled Photographs
  Unlabelled Negative
  Various [two folders]
  
• Newspaper Clippings, 1972
  
• Andrew Ellicott Research Material, c. 1972 [five folders]
  
• Cogs in the Wheel
  
• The Planetarium of Giovanni de Dondi Citizen of Padua (in three parts), 1964
  

Box 4 of 26

• Collection de Differens Traites Instrumens D'Astronomie, etc
  
• Descriptions et usages de plusieurs nouveaux microscopes… (copy from microfilm)
  
• An Account of the 71st Anniversary of the Providence Association of Mechanics and Manufacturers, 1860 (photocopy)
  
• Ellicott: Miscellaneous Items
  
• Sborník pro dejiny prírodních ved a techniky
  
• IX Acta historiae rerum naturalium nec non technicarum (photocopy)
  
• Die Armillarsphare van Dr. Phil, Friedrich Nolte, 1922
  
• Manuscript Book B Andrew Ellicott
  
• Photocopies of Letters
  
• Photographs: Ellicott Quadrant

Scientific Instruments Research

• Handwritten Manuscript
  
• Photographs: Various Images, 1977 [two folders]
  
• Novæ coelestivm (photocopy)
  
• Scientific and Technological Instrumentation displayed at National
  
• Museum of History and Technology (brochure)
  
• General Research Material
  
• Book Cover: Thinkers and Tinkers
  
• Publications, Articles, and Photographs
  
• "The Study of Time" by J.T. Fraser
  
• Scientific Instruments
  
• Thomas Jefferson: Statesman of Science
  
• Bedini Articles on Scientific Instruments
  
• Photographs: Galileo
  
• Original Manuscript
  
• Astrolabes
  
• Clocks [three folders]
  
• Photographs: Greenough
  
• Photographs: Scientific Instruments
  
• Miscellaneous Photographs [two folders]

Box 5 of 26

• Photographs of Chinese Sundails
  
• Photographs: Compasses [two folders]
  
• Correspondence: July-December, 1985 Jul-Dec [two folders]
  
• Connecticut Historical Society Bulletin, Spring 1987 - A Skirmish in America: A Rare Etching...by Silvio A. Bedini
  
• Early Military Books in the University of Michigan Libraries
  
• Il Bugnarroti de Benvenuto Gasparoni..
  
• Physics and Astronomy by Accrombie
  
• Relazione di Sintesi by Eugenio Garin
  
• Natural History by Maries Boas Hall
  
• Le Musée d'Histoire de la Science by Marla-Luisa Bonelli
  
• Foreign Articles
  
• Photographs: Chinese Sundials

NMHT/Smithsonian Research

• Brochures, 1982-1983
  
• History of the National Museum of History and Technology, 1973-1979
  
• A Study of the Smithsonian Centennial Collection, 1972
  
• Collection Academique
  
• The Smithsonian Institution and the American Philosophical Society
  
• Correspondence, 1971
  
• Orrery Photographs and List [two folders]
  
• "The National Treasury of American History Proposal" by Silvio A. Bedini
  
• General Information re: NMHT Research Project, c. 1961-1973 [four folders]
  
• Early Smithsonian
  
• NMHT Museum Project [three folders]
  

Box 6 of 26

• "The Sinews of Independence" by Neil York [four folders]
  
• "Research and Study Resources of the NMHT" (1977) by Silvio A. Bedini
  
• Staff Publications, October 1977
  
• "The National Museum of History and Technology, 1974-1978" by Silvio A. Bedini
  
• Museum News Article
  
• Newsletter: Conference Board of the Mathematical Science, May-June 1978
  
• Long Term Plan for Revitalization of Exhibits in the Institution, May 31, 1950
  
• Photograph: Underwood and Underwood
  
• Notes
  
• Conceptual Plan of the Museum of History and Technology
  
• Correspondence, 1975
  
• Relics of the Revolution, 1969 [two folders]
  
• Howe, Elias
  
• Proposal: "The National Treasury of American History," by Silvio A. Bedini
  
• Preliminary Outline: "The National Treasury of American History"
  
• Letter from Wittfield J. Bell, 1974
  
• Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, Illinois
  
• Newspaper Clippings
  
• Smithsonian Employees (prior to 1876)
  
• Franklin Press, 1979-1980
  
• Franklin Press: Research
  
• National Museum Children's Room
  
• 1876 Philadelphia Centennial
  
• Early American Museums [two folders]
  
• Booklet: Exhibits in the Museums of the Smithsonian Institution
  
• Article re: Patent Office, Harpers Weekly, April 11, 1891 [two folders]
  
• Draft Chapters of Book, 1980
  
• Chronology of Events: NMHT, 1978
  
• SAO and SI News/Photo Recommendations [two folders]
  

Box 7 of 26

• SAO and SI News/Photo Recommendations
  
• Photographs: Nouvelle Division des Instrumens
  
• "Editto"
  
• La Macchina Di Leonardo Per L' Orfeo Del Poliziano
  
• NMHT book sources, 1979
  
• La LaFayette Cannon, 1980
  
• Miscellaneous Photographs
  
• Here at the Smithsonian
  
• "In the Smithsonian" Series
  
• The Canvas of Culture: Rediscovery of the Past as Adaptation for the Future
  
• Page 1, Unit V draft (copy)
  
• Lafayette Cannon, 1979-1981 [two folders]
  
• Photographs: Scientific Instruments
  
• Miscellaneous Research Items
  
• Dedication of the Museum of History and Technology of the Smithsonian Institution, 22 January 1964 (photocopy)
  
• SI Annual Reports [two folders]
  
• NMHT Book: Arts & Industries Building, 1979
  
• "The Torch" Articles, 1979-1980
  
• "Torch" article by FA Taylor, 5 March 1956
  
• "Mechanical Powers"
  
• Patent Models
  
• The Institute Polka
  
• Newspaper Sections re: Smithsonian, 1965-1966
  
• Articles
  
• Significant Patent Models
  
• "The Hardware of History" (1977) by Silvio A. Bedini
  
• Photographs: Arts & Industries Building
  
• Photographs: Patent Office
  
• Photographs: Carl Mitman
  
• Miscellaneous Negatives
  
• Photographs: Exhibitions
  
• Photographs: Smithsonian "Castle" Building
  
• Photographs: Work Shop [?]
  
• Smithsonian Postcards
  
• Photographs: Washington DC
  
• Photographs: A&I Building Storage Areas
  
• Museums: Their History and Use by David Murray (Vol. 1)
  
• 57th Congress House of Representatives, Doc. 314: New Building for the UD National Museum, 22 January 1903
  
• The Smithsonian Institution and the American Philosophical Society by Leonard Carmichael, Oct 1957 (reprint)
  
• News articles re: Smithsonian Institution
  
• Photographs: Washington Tents
  
• Photographs of Manuscript
  
• Photographs: Presidential Memorabilia
  

Box 8 of 26

• Photographs: Arts & Industries Building/Exhibits [three folders]
  
• Photographs: Miscellaneous Objects
  
• Photographs: Washington and Jefferson Objects
  
• NMHT Postcards
  
• Photographs: NMHT Exhibits [four folders]
  
• Newspaper Clippings and Pamphlets re: Smithsonian Museums, c. 1965-1970 [three folders]

Research Files: Correspondence/Other, I-Z

• I (general), 1974-1980
  
• Instruments in Art (photographs)
  
• Instruments: Scientific [two folders]
  
• ISIS: Correspondence, 1965-1986
  
• J (general), 1964-1976
  
• Jesuits in Science, 1980
  
• Jones, Edward, 1964-1977
  
• Research Correspondence: K, 1975-1980 [two folders]
  
  

Box 9 of 26

• Kelly, John T., 1970-1978 [two folders]
  
• King, Benjamin, 1966-1973
  
• Kranzberg, Melvin, 1967-1979
  
• L (general), 1969, 1980
  
• Lafayette: O. Connick Mss, 1952-1962 [three folders]
  
• Lafayette: Printed Resources, c. 1952-1957 [three folders]
  
• Lafayette Watch (photographs), 1979-1981 [two folders]
  
• Leonardo DaVinci: Madrid Codices, 1963-1975
  
• Leonardo DaVinci: Madrid Manuscript [three folders]
• Leonardo DaVinci: The Unknown Leonardo, 1973
  
• Leonardo DaVinci, 1980
  
• Leonardo DaVinci: Exhibition Booklet [three folders]
  
• Leonardo DaVinci: "To Do With Time (The Horological Sketches of Leonardo)" by Silvio A. Bedini
  

Box 10 of 26

• Leonardo DaVinci: Windsor Collection, c. 1976 [six folders]
  
• Lewis and Clark: Speech and Article, 1983 ("The Scientific Instrumentation of the Lewis and Clark Expedition" by Silvio A. Bedini) [two folders]
  
• Library Research
  
• Library of Congress: Council of Scholars, 1979
  
• Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, c. 1963
  
• Lynch, Kenneth, 1964-1986 [four folders]
  
• M (general), 1967
  
• Machgamer, Peter K., 1968-1973
  
• Mailing List: "Early American Scientific Instruments and Their Makers," 1964-1974
  
• "Man and Time: Proposal for an Exhibition," by Silvio A. Bedini
  
• "Man-Made Man (Mechanical Automata to Modern Computer)" by Silvio A. Bedini
  
• Man, Time, and the Sun
  
• Maryland Academy of Science, 1975
  
• Maryland Historical Society, 1965-1976
  
• "Mechanical Universe (The Astrarium of Giovanni de Donti)" by Silvio A. Bedini and Francis R. Maddison, c. 1964-1973
  

Box 11 of 26

• "Mechanical Universe (The Astrarium of Giovanni de Donti)" by Silvio A. Bedini and Francis R. Maddison, c. 1964-1973
  
• Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1959-1977
  
• Michaelis, Anthony, 1966-1974
  
• Michaelis Collection and Publications
  
• Microscopes, 1963
  
• Colonial American Microscopy
  
• Middelton, W.E.K., 1963-1978
  
• Millburn, John R., 1980
  
• Miscellaneous Illustrations, c. 1974
  
• Miscellaneous Articles, 1979
  
• Museology Bibliography, 1979
• Museum of History and Technology, 1965-1979
  
• Museum of the History of Science, 1962-1978 [two folders]
  
• NMHT: Office of the Director, 1980 [three folders]
  
• NMHT: Office of the Director, 1979 [two folders]
  
• NMHT: Office of the Director, 1978
  
• N (general), 1969, 1980
  
• Napoleon's Caesar Emerald, 1979
  
• National Academy of Sciences, 1974-1976
  
• National Archives, 1976-1980
  
• National Geographic Society, 1965-1982
  
• National Portrait Gallery, 1978
  
• National Science Foundation, 1979-1983
  
• National Maritime Museum, 1967-1983
  

Box 12 of 26

• National Maritime Museum: Instrument Symposium, 1981-1983 [two folders]
  
• National Treasures Act
  
• Navigation
  
• N.Y. Historical Society, 1963-1978
  
• NISI, 1971-1983
  
• Nocturnal
  
• Octants [two folders]
  
• Obelisks
  
• Odemeters
  
• Optical Instruments [two folders]
  
• Optical Society of America, 1965-1966
  
• Oracle Bones (Chinese), 1965-1967
  
• Orrery
  
• P (general)
  
• Patent Office Research, 1962-1968
  
• Professional Accomplishments Evaluation Committee:
  Evaluation Plan, 1965-1967
  
• Perpetual Motion in America, 1978-1979
  
• Peters Collection (relating to Science)
  
• Physick, 1976
  
• Port Royal Project (Jamaica), 1978-1979
  
• Prager, 1979
  
• Price, Derek, 1963-1982 [three folders]
  

Box 13 of 26

• Priestly, Joseph: Burning Glass, 1965
  
• Photograph and Book Purchases: Correspondence, 1962-1978 [six folders]
  
• Quadrants, 1977
  
• Quadrants, Gunners
  
• Queen Elizabeth II, 1977
  
• R (general), 1969
  
• Research Correspondence, 1979-1984 [eleven folders]
  

Box 14 of 26

• Research Correspondence, 1985
  
• Sundials
  
• Richards, Oscar, 1963-1976
  
• Ring Dials
  
• Ripley, S. Dillon Projects, 1979-1981
  
• Rittenhouse, Benjamin, 1975-1980
  
• Rittenhouse, Benjamin: Metal Surveying Compass
  
• Rolph, Miles, 1966
  
• S (general)
  
• Science Museum, 1962-1978
  
• Science Museums, History of: Early Years, 1964
  
• Saxton, Joseph, 1968-1980
  
• Science Teaching Instruments, 1979
  
• Scribners' Sons, 1968-1977
  
• Sectors
  
• Semi-Circle
  
• "Seventeenth Century Magnetic Timepieces" by Silvio A. Bedini
  
• "The Seventeenth Century Table Clepsydra" by Silvio A. Bedini
  
• Sextants
  
• Sheaffer, Louis, 1968-1977
  
• Short, William, 1979
  
• Skills That Made America, 1971
  
• Silver Jubilee Exhibit, c. 1977 [three folders]
  
• Slemp, James, 1965-1974
  
• Smith, William A., 1976
  
• Society of American Historians, 1979
  
• Society of the History of Technology, 1978-1983
  
• Society for Industrial Architecture, 1978
  
• Societe Internationale de L'Astrolabe, 1979-1980
  
• Surveying Instruments
  
• SWABE Astrolabe, 1979
  
• Symposium Washington Collegium, 1978
  
• T (general), 1970-1978
  
• Tchenekal (Russian Instruments), 1963-1970
  
• Technology and Culture, 1979-1984
  
• Telescopes, c. 1965-1972
  
• The Ariel Telescope
  
• The Hurried Pace (XIII), 1982
  
• Theodolites
  
• "Thinkers and Tinkers: The Early American Men of Science," by Silvio A. Bedini
  

Box 15 of 26

• Timekeeping, 1968
  
• Time Life, 1964-1977
  
• Torriano, Juanelo, 1980
  
• Tube for Distant Vision, 1972
  
• Tuttell, Thomas: Playing Cards, 1967
  
• Tyler, John D., 1964-1975
  
• Unidentified Objects: Fragments from Rod [?], 1972
  
• United States Merchant Marine Academy (Campbell Collection), 1971
  
• Utah: ACSM-ASP Convention, 1983
  
• "Universe in Miniature" by Silvio A. Bedini, 1964-1965
  
• V (general)
  
• Varden, John, 1979 [two folders]
  
• Volpaia, Della [three folders]
  
• W (general), 1963-1964
  
• Wall, George
  
• Warshaw Collection, 1971
  
• Washington, George, 1965-1977
  
• Washingtoniana, 1972
  
• Watches, 1974-1976 [four folders]
  
• Watt, James, 1963-1974
  
• What's-its Exhibition, 1984
  
• Williams, William, 1967-1972
  
• Writing Desk: NMHT, 1973
  

Box 16 of 26

General Correspondence: A-Z, c. 1978-1988

• A (a-l)
  
• A (m-z)
  
• Ashmun, Dr. Lee M.D.
  
• B (a-m) [two folders]
  
• B (n-z) [four folders]
  
• Battle, Dr. John [three folders]
  
• C (a-m) [two folders]
  
• C (m-z)
  
• Collins, M.
  
• D [two folders]
  
• Dibner, Ben
  
• E [two folders]
  
• F [two folders]
  
• G (a-i)
  

Box 17 of 26

• Grondive
  
• Galuzzi, Paolo
  
• Garcia, Diego, Jose A.
  
• G (j-z) [two folders]
  
• H (a-h) [two folders]
  
• Hamarneh, Sami
  
• Hansen, James
  
• H (i-z) [two folders]
  
• I
  
• J
  
• K (a-i) [three folders]
  
• K (j-z)
  
• L [three folders]
  
• Library (NMHT)
  
• M (a-h) [two folders]
  
• M (l-z) [two folders]
  
• N
  
• NMHT [two folders]
  
• O
  

Box 18 of 26

• P (a-m)
  
• P (n-z)
  
• Price, Derek J. de Solla [three folders]
  
• Q
  
• R (a-m) [two folders]
  
• R (n-z)
  
• Ripley, S. Dillon
  
• S (a-m) [three folders]
  
• S (n-z) [three folders]
• S.I. Productions Division
  
• S.I. Press Guidelines
  
• Smithsonian Quadrangle
  
• Supplies
  
• T (a-m)
  
• T (n-z)
  
• Turner, Anthony J.
  
• Turner, Gerard L'E
  
• U
  
• V
  
• W (a-h) [two folders]
  
• Wells, Ellen
  
• W (i-z) [two folders]
  
• X
  
• Y
  
• Z
  

Box 19 of 26

• Correspondence, 1986-1988 [fourteen folders]

Research in Progress

• Research Aids, c. 1980s [eight folders]
  
• Reviews of SAB books
  
• Book Reviews: Currently by SAB, c. 1986 [two folders]
  
• Annals of Science, 1982-1988 [three folders]
  
• Christie's Auction Galleries, 1983
  
• Galileo Project, 1982-1983 [two folders]
  
• Early American Scientific Instruments
  
• The Process of Galileo
  
• George Washington and the Land (photographs)
  
• Historic Gems, 1980
  
• Incense Clocks, 1980-1983
  
• Miscellaneous Research Projects, 1980
  
• History of Patents, 1960-1967
  
• Peale Museum Project, 1987
  
• Rome Science Museum, 1984
  
• Shadowed Stylus (Sundials)
  
• Sheahan, D.B., 1981-1982
  
• Sound of Time, 1982
  

Box 20 of 26

• Sound of Time, 1982 [two folders]
  
• State House Yard Observatory ("That Awful Stage")
  
• Whitaker, 1983
  
• The Nova Reperta ("New Discoveries") by Alice McGinty [two folders]
  
• Wilkes Expedition Exhibition, 1983
  
• Word Processor Computer: Epson, 1981-1984
  
• Yale Instrument Committee
  
• SI Libraries: History, 1990-1992
  
• SIL Facsimile Editions, 1980
  
• Silvio A. Bedini Travel, 1984-1996
  
• Silvio A. Bedini: Proposed Program of Work, 1978-1980

Vatican Project

• Research Materials [three folders]
  
• Vatican & Science: Proposal, 1981-1984 [five folders]
  
• Travel to Italy, 1984-1985 [four folders]
  
• Vatican Correspondence: A-M, 1977-1985 [two folders]
  
• Vatican Correspondence: N-Z, 1977-1985 [three folders]
  
• Vatican & Science: Book Outline, 1983
  
• Vatican & Science: Objects, 1984-1985 [three folders]
  

Box 21 of 26

• Project Vatican, 1976-1982 [three folders]
  
• Vatican & Science: Bibliographical Source Material
  
• The Papal Pachyderms: Lecture and Article, 1982-1985 [two folders]
  
• Project Vatican: Articles, c. 1984 [three folders]
  
• Vatican Obelisk, 1982 [two folders]
  
• Vatican Library and Archives, 1987
  
• "The Vatican's Astronomical Paintings" by Silvio A. Bedini, 1978-1982 [four folders]
  
• Vatican & Science: Articles [three folders]
  
• Instruments in Art, 1962
  
• Vatican News, c. 1984 [three folders]
  
• The Vatican & the New World, 1977
  
• Vatican Scientific Collections, 1980 [two folders]
  
• Vatican Timekeeping, 1981
  
• The Vatican and Calendar Reform, 1984
  
• Barberini Instruments, 1978
  
• Cryptography [two folders]
  
• "Research at the Vatican," (1978) by Silvio A. Bedini
  
• Lecture: Vatican Research, 1978 [two folders]
  
• "The Academia Fisicamatematica Romana (A Preliminary Survey)" by Silvio A. Bedini, 1978
  
• Tower of the Winds, 1980
  
• Cardinal Baum, 1976-1981
  
• Vatican Musei, Monumenti, & Gallerie, 1977-1980
  

Box 22 of 26

• Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticona, 1977-1978
  
• Archivio Segreto Vaticano, 1977-1979 [two folders]
  
• Specola Vaticana, 1976-1980
  
• Papal Processions
  
• Vatican Film Project, 1981
  
• Travel to Italy, 1979-1984
  
• Papal Correspondence, 1981
  
• Vatican: Mappamundi
  
• Vatican Research Expenses, 1982
  
• Vatican Exhibition, 1981
  
• Vatican Correspondence, 1981

Thomas Jefferson Project

• Chronology of Thomas Jefferson and Science
  
• Thomas Jefferson: New Chapters
  
• Correspondence: A-M, 1965-1984
  
• Correspondence: N-Z, 1965-1984
  
• Correspondence: Bear, James A. Jr., 1963-1984
  
• Correspondence: H.J. Coolidge, 1981-1985
  
• Cryptography: Negatives
  
• Cryptography: Papers, c. 1974-1977
  
• Frontiers: Philadelphia Academy of Science, 1981-1982
  
• "Thomas Jefferson and the Beginnings of American Paleontology" by Silvio A. Bedini, c. 1984 [two folders]
  
• Photographs: Thomas Jefferson and Science Exhibition [four folders]
  
• Photographs: Declaration of Independence Desk [two folders]
  
• Declaration of Independence Desk, 1979-1985 [two folders]
  

Box 23 of 26

• Declaration of Independence Desk, 1979-1985 [three folders]
  
• Study at Monticello
  
• Photographs: Polygraphs [three folders]
  
• Polygraph: Thomas Jefferson, 1971-1982 [three folders]
  
• "Thomas Jefferson: Man of Invention" by Silvio A. Bedini
  
• Thomas Jefferson & Science Exhibit Catalogue Scripts
  
• Thomas Jefferson Exhibition: Loans, 1986
  
• Thomas Jefferson Exhibition: Script, 1981 [two folders]
  
• Thomas Jefferson Exhibition: Articles, 1981-1982
  
• Thomas Jefferson Exhibition: News Releases, 1981
  
• Research: Thomas Jefferson, 1976-1985 [six folders]
  
• Declaration of Independence: The Evolution of the Text
  
• Thomas Jefferson: A Reference Biography
  
• Correspondence: The Scientific Pursuits of Thomas Jefferson, 1973-1979
  

Box 24 of 26

• Lectures on Thomas Jefferson
  
• Thomas Jefferson Bible, 1975 [two folders]
  
• Harper's Weekly

Research Files: Correspondence/Other, A-B

• A (general), 1964-1978 [four folders]
  
• Abrams, Harry N., 1969-1980
  
• Adler Planetarium, 1966-1970
  
• Air Pumps (Dr. Prince)
  
• Almanacs (photographs)
  
• Almanacs: Research
  
• Althin, Tarsten, 1964-1969
  
• American Antiquarian Society, 1964-1979
  
• American Association of Museums, 1975-1979
  
• American Historical Review, 1971-1975
  
• American Philosophical Society, c. 1964-1984 [four folders]
  
• Animals on the Mall, 1975-1976
  
• Announcement of Books, 1976
  
• Antiquitarian Horological Society, 1979
  
• Anthony, Susan B., 1975
  
• Apostolic Clocks, 1980
  
• Applied Optics, 1965
  
• Armillary Spheres (photographs)
  
• Astrarium (photographs)
  
• Astrolabes: Research, 1963-1983
  
• Astrolabes: Photographs [two folders]
  

Box 25 of 26

• Astrolabes: Photographs, c. 1966-1980 [five folders]
  
• Astrolabe Analysis Project, 1963-1972 [two folders]
  
• Astronomy, 1968, 1984
  
• B (general), 1970-1978 [four folders]
  
• Backstaffs (photographs)
  
• Barometers (photographs)
  
• Bassett, Preston, 1963-1981
  
• Bedini, Silvio A.: Research Grant/Sabbatical, 1984-1985
  
• Bedini, Silvio A.: Publications, 1983-1984 [two folders]
  
• Bedini, Silvio A.: Projects in Progress, 1969-1978 [two folders]
  
• Bedini, Silvio A.: Bibliography
  
• Bedini, Silvio A.: Biographical Sketch
  

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Oversize Material

• Photographs: Thomas Jefferson and Science
  
• Photographs: Arts & Industries Building
  
• Photographs/Negatives: Octants
  
• Photographs: Miscellaneous

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