Organization: United States. Office of Naval Research - Philadelphia Area Archives Search Results

Extent:: 12 boxes
Abstract:: Harold Gardiner Bowen was director of the Naval Research Laboratory (1939-1942), special assistant to the Secretary of the Navy (1939-1947), chief of the Office of Naval Research (1946-1947), and executive secretary of the Thomas Alva Edison Foundation. This collection consists of selected papers of Vice-Admiral Bowen, including speeches, articles, documents, printed matter, and manuscripts for his book Ships, Machinery, and Mossbacks, The Autobiography of a Naval Engineer (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1954).

Held at: Princeton University Library: Public Policy Papers [Contact Us]

Extent:: 23.5 linear feet (17 boxes.)
Abstract:: Correspondence, patents, publications, notes, production plans, proposals, memos, reports, and data belonging to the Commercial Solvents Corporation (CSC), as well as the personal files of Richard S. Egly, CSC's Associate Scientific Director, and Emory E. Toops, Jr., a physical chemist in CSC's Technical Development Department. The collection deals with the production of nitroparaffins and nitroparaffin derivatives, an area in which Commercial Solvents Corporation was preeminent.

Held at: Science History Institute Archives [Contact Us]

Extent:: 20.0 linear feet (25 boxes)
Abstract:: This collection contains the correspondence, notes, article reprints, reports, and notebooks of American physical-organic chemist Paul D. Bartlett.

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Extent:: 27 boxes and 16.30 linear feet
Abstract:: Walker Bleakney was a renowned physicist who served as a Princeton professor of physics (1932-1969) and chairman of the physics department (1960-1967). This collection consists of Bleakney's papers, including published and unpublished reports, drafts of articles, graphic data and photographs of experiments, and other material concerning Bleakney's defense-related research on shock waves at the Princeton Gas Dynamics Laboratory, as well as lecture notes and correspondence.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

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