Accession 13-216

Notes, 1965-1976 (2 folders)

Radar Meeting, 1992

Correspondence (general), 1953-2007 (3 folders)

The PTC Research Institute of the George Washington University: Inventors Sessions, 1970

Broadcast Pioneers Conference, 1974

Sivowitch, Elliot N.: "A Technological Survey of Broadcasting's 'Pre-History,' 1876-1920" (1970-1971)

Lecture Papers, 1964-1967

Award and Membership Certificates, 1991-1996

Antique Wireless Association Meeting, 1968-1972

Western Union Contract (Kansas City Southern Railway Company v. Sylvia Weill Marcuse), 1995-1997

Radio Tube Script, 1963

Reports and Article Reviews, c. 1958-1988

History of Broadcasting Course, 1967

Press Releases, 1965

Travel Reports, 1964-1975

History of Broadcasting Course Agreement, 1969

Photographs of Elliot N. Sivowitch, c. 1965-1973

Sivowitch, Elliot N.: "The Historical Development of Radio Receivers in the United States, 1920-1940" (1958)

"The Discovery of Borax" by Robert P. Multhauf

Farmer Article (Moses G. Farmer), 1993-1996

Transistor History

Europe Trip: Photographs and Negatives, 1963

Europe Trip: Travel Report, 1963

Travel Reports (general), 1962-1994

Bell Atlantic (Rita Campbell), 1972-1992

Exhibition Correspondence, 1968-1979

ETL Testing Laboratories, Inc., 1986

Nomenclature for Electricity, 1991

Script for Hall Lecture, 1965

Saroj K. Ghose, 1971-1976

Tom Simpson, 1967-1969

Antique Wireless Association, 1959-1985

James G. Biddle Company, 1970

General Electronics, 1955-1957

General Radio Company, 1958-1961

Pacific Gas and Electric Company, 1958-1959

The Henry Ford Museum (Dearborn, Michigan), 1965-1987

Royal Scottish Museum (Edinburgh, Scotland), 1963-1975

Museum of History and Science (Oxford, England), 1964, 1983

Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers (Paris, France), 1959-1987

Berkshire Museum (Pittsfield, Massachusetts), 1958-1978

American Museum of Natural History (New York City, New York), 1957-1964

New Almaden Museum (New Almaden, California), 1962-1969

Newfoundland Museum (St. John's, Newfoundland), 1969-1979

Science Museum (London, England), 1956-1987

Burndy Library (Norwalk, Connecticut), 1956-1978

University of California (Berkeley, California), 1958-1983

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers/Archive for the History of Electrical Science and Technology, 1972-1994

Europe Travel Reports, 1963-1977

Ganz Electrical Works: Transformers, 1964-1972

Robert A. Chipman, 1959-1961

C. G. Andrus, 1965

Siemensmuseum (Munich, Germany), 1963-1971

Guenter Schwarz, 1959-1961

Lee R. Anderson, 1990

Robert P. Multhauf, 1987-1993

Elliot N. Sivowitch, 1957-1961

Westinghouse Electric Corporation, 1955-1965

Radio Label Information

Exhibition for Federal Communications Commission: "Television: The First Quarter Century," 1968-1969

Finn, Bernard S.: Published Articles, c. 1964-1994

Correspondence (general), 1966-2001

Press Releases, 1977-1978

Photographs of Bernard S. Finn, 1984

Thermoelectricity, 1963-1984

Modern Painting and Sculpture Notes, 1982

Smithsonian Journal of History, 1964-1969

Twenty-Second International Congress of History of Science (Beijing, China), 2003-2005

Smithsonian Institution Seminar: Patterns of Scientific and Technological Impact, 1971

The Institution of Electrical Engineers (London, England), 1973-1976

Dr. Peter Waddell lecture on John Logie Baird, 1990

Menahem Blondheim, 1989

National Science Museum, Masahiro Maejima (Tokyo, Japan), 1992

Pulse of the Planet, Jim Metzner (Croton-on-Hudson, New York), 1990

Georgetown Energy Museum (Dumont, Colorado), 1972-1994

Harvard University (Will Andrewes), 1992

Professional Information

National Science Resource Center, 1987-2003

Museum Exhibitions, 1988-1995

Tufts University

Electric Power Research Institute, 1983

The 2005 World Exposition (Aichi, Japan), 1999, 2005

Lecture Papers (general), 1964-1965, 1969-1970

Lecture Paper on Thomas Edison, 6th Energy Technology Conference and Exposition, (Washington, D.C.), 1979

"Keeping in Touch" Lecture Paper, 1978

United States Patent System: 175 Anniversary Symposium, 1965

Lecture Paper: "How Kelvin paid for the Lalla Roohk"

Origins of Benjamin Franklin's Electrical Theory

"Communications World" Transcripts, 1987

National Endowment for the Humanities Panel, 1982

Lecture Paper: "Genius Forgotten: Charles Wheatstone," 1983

Lecture Paper: "Edison and Revolutions," 1987

Office of Museum Programs: Workshop Series, 1982

Lecture Paper: "Since the Discovery of Columbus," College of William and Mary, 1981

Lecture Paper: "Communications in Three Dimensions," Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Conference, 1981

"John Kruesi" Lecture

Lecture Paper: "Technology Transfer"

Lecture Paper: "Western Union: Nineteenth Century Mentality in the 20th Century Laboratory"

Lecture Paper: "Technology and Society: Implications for Museums," CIMUSET Meeting (Rome, Italy), 1991

Lecture Paper: "Archives and Artifacts - Implications for the Edison Project," Edison Symposium and the Society for the History Technology (SHOT) Meeting, Newark, New Jersey, 1979

Lecture at the Resident Associate Program on the National Museum of History and Technology (NMHT) name change to the National Museum of American History (NMAH), 1981

Lecture Paper: "History, Historians, and Museums" at Eastern Carolina University, 1987

Lecture Paper: "The Timing of Innovation: Electrical Communications in the Nineteenth Century," School of Electrical Engineering Colloquium (Cornell University), 1991

"Themes and Evolutions" Lecture (New Brunswick), 1987

Lecture at the AMSTA "Care of Collections" Workshop, 1983

Lecture at the Capital Children's Museum, 1982

Finn, Bernard S.: "The Museum of Science and Technology Historic Outline," 1984

Finn, Bernard S.: "Thermoelectricity," Advances in Electronics and Electron Physics, Vol. 50, 1980

SHOT Milwaukee Lecture Summaries

"Science and Technology in Telecommunications," International Congress of the History of Science (ICHS) Symposium, 1993

Encyclopedia of the Confederacy: "Telegraph" article, 1992

SHOT/Uppsala Exhibition Text (by panels), 1992

Lecture Paper: "Collecting for a Purpose," SHOT, 1985

Finn, Bernard S.: "Laplace's Correction to the Newtonian Speed of Sound," 1959

Finn, Bernard S.: "Laplace and the Speed of Sound," 1964

Finn, Bernard S.: "Working at Menlo Park," 1989

Finn, Bernard S.: "Exhibit Reviews: Twenty Years After," 1989

Lecture Paper: "Telegraph Practice in the Nineteenth Century," ICHS Meeting (Moscow, U.S.S.R.), 1971

The Pinch Effect

Edison Papers Project, 1985

Lecture Paper: "Submarine Telegraphy: Impacts Related to Technology," ICHS Meeting (Edinburgh, Scotland), 1977

Lecture Paper: "The Influence of Experimental Apparatus on Eighteenth Century Electrical Theory," ICHS Meeting (Washington, D.C.), 1968

Lecture Paper: "Electron Theories of Conduction in the Nineteenth Century: The Problem of Electrical-Thermal Interactions" (Warsaw, Poland), 1965

Finn, Bernard S.: "Alexander Graham Bell's Experiments with the Variable-Resistance Transmitter," 1966

Artifacts and the History of Technology Conference and Workshop, 1997

Lecture Paper: "Suggestions for Looking at Museums," 1998

Lecture Paper: "Impact of Electrical Communications," Technology and Society Seminar (Hagley Foundation), 1969

Lecture Paper: "Electrical Communications: A Comparison of Origins"

Publications and Articles (general), c. 1964-1994 (3 folders)

Award Certificates, 1991-1995

"Atlantic Cable" Exhibition, 1972

Book Reviews, 1965-1992

Arete Museum Article, 1978

Japan and China Museum Professionals, 1988-2006

Electric Companies Research Notes, c. 1979-1980 (2 folders)

Africa, 1988-1989

Argentina, 1980

The Asia Society, 1993

Australia, 1995

Bangladesh, 1999-2000

Brazil, 2001

Canada, 1997

China: Exhibition Information, 1992-1995

China: Jixing Pan, 1982-1987

China: Kangniang Yan, 1994-1997

China: Shanghai Group, 1996

China: University of Hong Kong, 1980-1981

China Association of Science and Technology, 1990-1994

China Science and Technology Museum, 1994

Columbia, 1995

Cuba (general), 1992-1997 (2 folders)

Cuba: Conference Information, 1994-1995

Cuba: Conference Participants, 1993-1995

Cuba: James Don Edwards and Ralph Steuer, 1994

Cuba: Jose Altshuler Project, 1987-1999

Cuba: Jose Altshuler Visit to D.C., 1994-1995

Cuba: Post Conference, 1995-2000

Czechoslovakia, 1985

Egypt, 1981

Foreign Visitors, 1977-1984

France and Exhibition, 1980-1996

Great Britain, 1995

Honduras, 1995

India: Ingit Kumar Mukhopadhyay, 1996-1997

India: Robert Friedel, 1995-1996

India: Smithsonian-National Council of Science Museums Program, 1991-1997

India: Visit of Arjun Singh, 1994

Italy, 1993-1997

Japan: Chiba Museum of Science and Industry, 1994-1998

Japan: Chubu Electric Power Company, Inc., 1993-1996

Japan: Construction Plan for the Museum of Civil Engineering, 1999

Japan: Eiju Matsumoto, 1994-1999

Japan: Gakushuin University, 2001

Japan: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)/Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan (IEEJ) Collaboration, 1993-1996

Japan (general), 1980-1998

Japan: Japanese Visit, 1998

Japan: Maui Meeting (Hawaii), 1995

Japan: Miti Museum, Hakuhodo Incorporated, and Momo International, Inc., 1993-1997

Japan: National Institute for Informatics, 2003-2004

Japan: National Science Museum, 1992-1993

Japan: NEC Corporation, 1996

Japan: Nikkei, 1996-1997

Japan: Sendai Science Museum (Takashi Kusaka)

Japan: Suzuki Hiroshi, 2001

Japan: Third Maui Meeting, 2004

Japan: Tokyo Electronic Power Company, Inc., (Tokyo, Japan), 1993

Japan: Tokyo Electronic Power Company, Inc., (Washington, D.C), 1989-2004

Japan: Trip to Japan, 1998

Japan: Yokogawa Electric Corporation, 1991-1998

Japan: Tsuneo Mitsui Visit, 1996

Japan: Yuzo Takahashi, 1994-2002

Norway, 1997

Portugal, 1997

Russia (Moscow), 1998

Sweden, 1994-1998

Telecom (Thomas Werner), 1993

West Germany, 1981

Yugoslavia, 1996-1997

Sloan Project, 1999-2002

Smithsonian Journal of History, 1969

Research Review Committee, 1992-1993

Reengineering Team, 1998

Town Meeting, 2001

Saudi Arabia Science Center Project, 1982

India, 1993

Danmarks Tekniske Museum, 1983-1992

Interview Groups, 1997

Science in American Life, 1989

Documents Collecting/Archives, 1977-1980

Wolfgang W. Mache, 1987

Richard R. John, 1994

Next Chairman Notes

Arts & Industries Building Proposal, 2008

Museums and Historians, 1984-1992

1876 Centennial Exhibition (Arts & Industries Building), 1974-1976

Research in Museums as Scholarships, 1993

Reorganization of the National Museum of American History (NMAH), 1993-1994

Center for Historical Studies at the Smithsonian Proposal, 1987

Research Task Force Report, 1993

Constituent Units of NMAH (Smithsonian Council Meeting), 1993

Research Review Committee Report, 1992

Collections Policy and Management Survey, 1975-2001

National Museum of History and Technology (NMHT) Library, 1961-1975

Fellows, 2001-2004

Trenton Science Museum Project, 1999

Television Interview, 1999

International Telecommunications Union Meeting (Minneapolis, Minnesota), 1997

Columbus Project, 1998

University of California (Berkeley, California), 1989

Tokyo Electric Power Company: Electric Power Historical Museum, 2001-2002

Removal of the Foucault Pendulum at NMAH, 1998

Satoko Oshima, 2001-2003

"The Messengers" Television Series/Telecourse on Human Communications, 1981-1984

Research Center for the History of Science and Technology at NMAH, 1990

Freedom Train, 1975-1977

Kellogg Project, 1983-1984

Scholarly Resource Center at NMAH, 1993

NMHT Generalizations, 1970-1976

Richard Loomis Project, 1996

"Manuscripts in U.S. Depositories Relating to the History of Electrical Science and Technology" (David A. Hounshell), 1974-1975

Sabbatical (London, England), 1972-1974

Society of American Archivists, 1976

Bicentennial Projects, 1970-1971

Office of Museum Programs, 1976-1977

NMAH Correspondence (general), 1992-1999

Exhibition Planning, 1969

Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories, 1975

United States Army Signal Corps, 1949-1983

Memoranda (general), 1975-1982

General Electricity Collections: Correspondence, 1959-1975

Historical Preservation of Tyndall, South Dakota Open-Wire Line (Northwestern Bell), 1980

Annual Report, 1970-1975

Correspondence (general), 1978-1989 (2 folders)

Travel Reports, 1964

A (general), 1969-1995

American Association of Museums, 1964

American Institute of Physics, 1959-1978

American Philosophical Society Library, 1958-1979

American Telephone and Telegraph Company, 1968-1987

B (general), 1978-1994

Brown University, 1961-1985

C (general), 1964-1995 (2 folders)

Case Western Reserve University (Melvin Kranzberg), 1965-1969

Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company, 1962-1979

Clemson College, 1962-1974

Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc., 1956-1981

Cornell University, 1956-1974

D (general), 1975-1994

Deutsches Museum, 1958-1985

Department of the Navy, 1957-1969

E (general), 1975-1992

Exhibits (general), 1980-1995

F (general), 1963-1994

Franklin Institute, 1956-1978

G (general), 1963-1991

General Electric Company, 1961-1980

Gray History-of-Wireless Museum (Mason, Ohio), 1963-1969

H (general), 1972-1996

Harvard University, 1963-1988

I (general), 1966-1993

J (general), 1964-1993

K (general), 1974-1992

L (general), 1973-1992

Labadie Electrical Historical Museum (Longueuil, Quebec), 1959, 1977

M (general), 1959-1994

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1957-1985

McGill University (Montreal, Canada), 1966-1967

N (general), 1965-1991

National des Arts et Metiers, 1988

O (general), 1961-1984

P (general), 1965-1994

Peale Museum (Baltimore, Maryland), 1957

Q (general), 1985

R (general), 1965-1993

Radio Corporation of America, 1956-1984

Rijksmuseum voor de Geschiendent Der Natuurwetenschappen (Leiden, Netherlands), 1964

S (general), 1972-1994 (2 folders)

Sony Corporation, 1975-1977

Space Science Center (Los Altos Hill, California), 1965-1978

Syracuse University, 1958-1965

T (general), 1967-1994

Union College (Schenectady, New York), 1957

United States Department of Commerce, 1959-1975

University of Pennsylvania, 1965-1980

V (general), 1969-1992

Victoria and Albert Museum (London, England), 1958

Voice of America, 19691976

W (general), 1964-1985

West Virginia University, 1969-1973

Western Electric Company, 1957-1961

Western Union, 1957-1978

Western Union International, Inc., 1968-1979

Weston Electrical Instrument Corporation, 1955-1959

X, Y, Z (general), 1963-1995

Visitor Log Book (not inclusive), 1978-1988

Edison Papers Project Meetings, 1976-2009 (4 folders)

Smithsonian Amateur Radio Club: Ham Station (NN3SI), 1989-1993

Scripts for Special Exhibitions, c. 1964-1974

Collections Policy (general), 1978-1979

Collections Policy: Correspondence (Bernard S. Finn), 1977-1985

"The Atlantic Cable" by Richard Denison-Pender

Submarine Cable Exhibition (Science Museum, London), 1972-1974

Feasibility Study and Master Plan: Museum Depository and Support Facility (Suitland, Maryland), 1970

Donation Events, 1964-1971

"On the Air: The Pioneers of American Broadcasting" Exhibition: Object List, 1988

"Yesterday's Tomorrows: Past Visions of the American Future" Exhibition: Fact Sheet, 1984

Thirty Millionth Visitor at NMHT, 1970

Nance L. Briscoe, Collection Manager for Electricity and Modern Physics, 1990-1997 (2 folders)

"All Alone by the Telephone" Exhibition Demonstration Flyer, 1984

Price, Derek J.: "The Scientific Humanities: An Urgent Program," 1957

Reports and Proposals in regard to NMAH, 1981-1999

Paul Forman: Publications and Recommendations, 1979-1982, 1991