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Finding Aids to Official Records of the Smithsonian Institution Archives
Record Unit 479
National Air and Space Museum. Department of Space History
Exhibition Records, circa 1976-1990
Collection Overview
General Information About This Collection | |
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Repository: | Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington, D.C. Contact us at osiaref@si.edu. |
Creator: | National Air and Space Museum. Department of Space History |
Title: | Exhibition Records |
Dates: | circa 1976-1990 |
Quantity: | 11.8 cu. ft. (11 record storage boxes) (1 document box) (2 oversize folders) |
Collection: | Record Unit 479 |
Language of Materials: | English |
Summary: | This record unit documents the curation of the "Beyond the Limits: Flight Enters the Computer Age" exhibition by Paul E. Ceruzzi of the Department of Space History. It includes the concept and label script, correspondence with donors, material concerning funding, reports, plans, photographs, and material concerning the design and production of the exhibition. |
Descriptive Entry
This record unit documents the curation of the Beyond the Limits: Flight Enters the Computer Age exhibition by Paul E. Ceruzzi of the Department of Space History. It includes the concept and label script, correspondence with donors, material concerning funding, reports, plans, photographs, and material concerning the design and production of the exhibition.
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Name
- Beyond the Limits: Flight Enters the Computer Age (Exhibition) (1989-2011: Washington, D.C.)
- Ceruzzi, Paul E.
Subject
Physical Characteristics of Materials in the Collection
Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 479, National Air and Space Museum. Department of Space History, Exhibition Records
Container List
Box 1
Ceruzzi
National Air and Space Museum Script
Computer Gallery - Interactive Exhibit Status
Aerospace Computing
Computer Gallery
External Correspondence
Details
Gallery Label Script
Preliminary Audiovisual Script (2 folders)
Old Label Script (2 folders)
Exhibit Status Reports
Box 2
Computer Gallery
Computer Gallery Proposal
Funding
Concept Script
340-350 "ECO" for Pioneer (2 folders)
Computer
Association of American Museums (AAM) Seminar
Label Script - Original (3 folders)
Label Script, March 1988
Comments and Feedback
Comments - Testing
Computer Graphics
Art Gallery Executive Committee
Film Series
Floor Plans
Graphics Packages to Exhibit, February 1988
Box 3
Computer Glossary
Invitation List
Interactives - Status
Meeting, May 4, 1988
Memoranda
Models
Models, Scale
Monthly Reports
NEXT Computer
Opening
Photo Orders
Poster
Gallery Prospectus
Restoration
Smithsonian Institution Shops
Silver Hill
Status Reports
Software Film (2 folders)
Walk-Through
Trademark
VCO
Thank you letter
Symposium
Computer Exhibit
Prodigy
Ford Aerospace
General Dynamics
General Electric
Goodyear Aerospace
Gould
Grid
DFVLR
Box 4
Deutsches Museum
Eisenhower Library
Evans and Sutherland
Grumman
Harris
Hewlett-Packard
Hughes - Ground Sys.
IBM
Computer Animation
ISC
JMP
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
Lockheed
Martin Marietta
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Laboratory
McDonnell Douglas
Microprose
Mitre
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Headquarters
NASA - Ames
NASA - Dryden
NASA - Goddard
NASA - Langley
National Bureau of Standards
NEXT
NASA - Johnson Space Center
Radio Shack
Northrop
Silicon Graphics
Singer
Softech
SPAR
Sperry
United States Geological Survey (USGS)
Vitro
Winthrop Group
Apogee
Apollo
AT&T
Autocad
AUVS
BB&N
Boeing
Canadian Marconi
Cincinnati-Milacron
Museum of Science and Industry
Computervision
Computer Museum
Cray
Box 5
DEC
Computer Gallery Correspondence
Computer Gallery International Visitor Experience
Computer Gallery Distribution
Computer Gallery Mailing Lists
Computer Gallery Prospectus
Gallery Entrance
Aerospace Computers Today
Computer Floor Plan
Early Flight
Apollo Era
Chronologic File, 1985 March to December
Chronologic File, 1985 March to December, Paul Ceruzzi
Hilburn Investments, 1986
Georgetown University, 1986
Geostar Corporation, 1984
German Democratic Republic, 1986
Ghirardelli Chocolate Co., 1985
Goodyear Aerospace Corporation, 1984
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, 1983-1984
Box 6
Gorman-Rupp Company, 1984
The Granger Collection, 1983
Hemmings Motor News, 1984
Grumman Aerospace Corporation, 1983-1985
QN Autopilot Sim
Velocity 3-D
Maintenance
Evans and Sutherland
A look at CAD IVIS
Tektronics
NATC Mockup
CFD
TSP
P51 Mustang
A64 Simulator
Cosmic Overview
Gravity - Asst. Nav.
Hardware
Box 7
Details
Ted Collen's Notebook (4 folders)
Memoranda, January-August 1987
Memoranda, May-December 1986
Lessons Learned
Milestones Alphabetical by Name
Thematic Area Working Meetings Computer Gallery
Computer Program Evaluations
Aerospace Computer Gallery Monthly Report
Construction plans (blueprints from Explus)
Index Cards
Photographs
Lessons Learned
Summary Report Beyond the Limits
Box 8
Introduction
Introductory Material
Casio Electronic Items
TRS 80
4 Computer photos
Photo of minutemen at launch
Bin with a million transistors
VHSIC Chip
Vacuum tube from SAGE
Noyce/Kilby's patents for circuit
First transistor
Minuteman guidance computer
Sci-Fi illustration of computer
VHSIC
Monarch Butterfly
Interactive Gallery Guide
Sunburst Logos
Design motif for "bio-blocks"
Design
Slide Rule, 8 ft. teaching
Bio-Block photo
Men in lofting room
Model-Bristol Fighter
Weight and calculation tables for Bristol fighter
Women in computing
Z-3 Computer that did flutter eq.
Tacoma Narrows
Weight tables from Skyraider
AD-1 Skyraider
Saturn V Rocket - large drawing
Friden desk calculator
Snark scale model
Snark photo
Maddida photo
Photograph, Von Neumann
Small circuit board from IBM 701
Charactron display tube
Copy of Ivan Sutherland's report
Space Shuttle in stages
Milestones of computer graphics
L-3 P-3 Boeing Engines photo
Artist drawings of previous plans for space station
Space Shuttle models
Window opening onto staging area
Space station
Bio-block photo
Preliminary sketches of Space Shuttle
Aerodynamics
220 L-1 G-1
200 L-2 G-2
Montage of wind tunnel models
DYNA SOAR
1950's wind tunnel control
Wind tunnel models
Variable density wind tunnel
Navier-Stokes equations
Shuttle model in Langley
Shuttle model with oil streaks
Shuttle tunnel models
Shuttle tiles
Wind tunnel models
Photograph of kids at work
Illiac IV
Cray-1
S. Cray
Ames Network
Computer Hacker
CFD Images
CFD Pix
Graphic of Yacht
Space Shuttle main engine model
Spaceplane, scale model
230 L-13
Box 9
Boeing 737-300 scale model
240 L-5 AV-5 P-S
HiMat crew at Edwards AFB
Bell X-1
Manufacture
Conrad Zuse
Wing of the HS-293
HS-293 flying bomb
Zuse's patent
Air Force reports on whirlwind
Whirlwind computer
Doug Ross
Ash Tray
Piece of NC tape
The robot
Composite material used in airplane
330 L4-P4
Access space frame
Intelsat wave guide
PERT chart
Testing
Variety of small instruments
Oscillograph strip charts
Photo panel
Merchant desk calculator
Michael Collins
Pilot handbook
Knee Pad
Graphic explaining envelopes
Enterprise photograph
Flying wing models
Operations: Air
Ship-Gyro
Elmer Sperry
Bio-Block
Sperry 1914 Gyroscope
Honeywell Ring laser gyro
510 L-4 P-4
Sperry A-2 Autopilot
Photograph of an autopilot
Norden Bombsight
520 L-5 P-S
X-29 Mannequin
X-29 Operational Mockup
X-29 Computer
Relaxed Stability and the Canard wing
QN Pterodactyl
Stealth Bomber
"Big Picture"
Helmet-Mounted Display - Virtual Cockpit
ADA Programming
Bendix Advertisement
Felsenthal Slide Ruler
Digital Avionics
HP-41C Used by Rutan/Yeager
SAGE Network
SAGE Memory Unit
Contemporary "War Room" Installation
Still from Dr. Strangelove
SAGE Installation
Early ARC Installation
ATC Sector Suite
Modern ATC Map of the United States
Reservation Board Photograph
American Airlines "Lazy Susan"
Revisor Terminal
SABRE Photograph
Low Fares Advertised in Newspapers Advertisements
Box 10
Barcode Computer System (American Express)
Flight Simulators (2 folders)
Edwin Link
Link Trainer - Wartime
Link Trainer (1934)
Outtake - Donald Duck
ASCA
IMS and Terrain
Terrain Board and Camera
Dome Flight Simulator
Pilot's View of Dome
Shuttle Simulator
Space Operations
Sensor from Saturn V
Saturn Launch
Launch Control Room, Shuttle
Launch Control Room, Apollo
Dr. Wernher Von Braun
Computer Shuts Launch
V-2/Saturn
Main Label - Science Fiction
Earth Path Indicator
Gordon Cooper
Quotation from President Kennedy
Gemini Computer and DSKY
Photograph of Mercury capsule
Apollo guidance computer and DSKY
Apollo core rope
Apollo 11 Starcharts
Slide rule used on Apollo 13
HP-41 calculator used on shuttle
Grid compass
Gravity assisted trajectory
Mariner 10
Voyager/Jupiter
Plaque on Pioneer 10
Workstation involved in search for ET
Graphics
Model of Globe
World Map of Intelsat Organization
Intelsat V model
Intelsat VI model
Ground station
Back-lit transparencies
Timeline
Quotations
Quetzalcoatlus northropi (QN)
Technical illustration of QN's innards
QN on a Macintosh
Video of QN's crash at Andrews
Aeroenvironment workshops
Ed Heineman's design tools
Ed Heineman Photograph
Data Reduction sheets
MADDIDA's Operating Manual
Flutter Audiovisual
Aerospace computing
University of Paris Pictures
Wylie, Romney & A. C. Evdahl
Face: Henri Gourand
David C. Evans, 1973
Contoured Landscapes
LDS 1 Photograph Manual
CAORF Photographs
Airplanes
SPLINES
Teapot Graphics
The Workstation
Interactive - Relational database for space stations
Boeing workshop
Micro-vax finite element
L-5 Space colony
IVIS design interactive
Box 11
Bio-Block photos
Graphic on the 4 forces of flight
Experimental Aerodynamics
Robins' whirling arm
Ford Trimotor
Wright Brothers wind tunnel
Drafting tools
North American Aviation
Spin tunnel
Drop model
Large wind tunnel photographs
Wind tunnel photographs
Grid of points
Tunnel hours needed to design select
Von Karman
Speed Ranges
Penske racing car
Model - text
Aerobraking used in 09W
NASA Lewis
National Aerodynamics simulator
Cray-2 used in NAS photo
NAS Cray-2
Computer model of shuttle reentry
Aerodynamic interactive
Ethernet cable
Douglas D-558-1 photo
Video of HiMat in flight
Whirlwind photograph
NC tools used by Aerospace industry
Complexity
PERT chart
Graphic on integration of CAD with CAM
Tony Levier
Strain Gauges
Data processing system
Strip charts and Charles Johnson
Flight data notebooks
In-Flight refueling
On-Board instrumentation complexer
Videos associated with flight testing interactive
513. Navigation text
A Beast of Burden Obsessed with Motion
The Gyroscope, a new use for a children's toy
Extending the Flight envelope
When looking out the window won't do
Ground Control
Airline Reservation Systems
Ground Operations
Evolution to more realism
The level of computer graphics
A simulator for the home
Space Shuttle assorted photos
Satellite pictures of Egypt
Von Braun Quotation
V-2 Simulator
On Board Guidance and Navigation
713. CSC Interaction
Aerospace's Hidden Partners
721. Miscellaneous
Correspondence
V-2 Receiver
Genesis of artificial intelligence
Financial trading
USA Today
Apollo 11 photos
Analog digital displays
2001
IBM 4 pi shuttle and DSKY
Sunracer
Miscellaneous
Missile Tracking
The Revolution
Software
Introduction
Northrop
Box 12
Logistics
Missile Tracking
Whirlwind
Apollo
Design and Production
Simulation Testing, control
Software
Conclusion
Appendix
Lockheed
Beyond the Limits Drawings (2 folders)
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