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Cicero Comstock Records, 1836-1873 - Records consist of financial records relating to Comstock’s activities as a farm machinery inventor and manufacturer of Milwaukee, Wisconsin....
Cincinnati Gas & Electric Company Records, n.d. - Records retained include minutes of executive board meetings, financial and accounting data, day files of senior management, annual reports, regulatory information, contracts, patents, sales and marketing information, researcjh and development materials, ...
Clark Dyer Papers, 1880-1980 - Papers contain correspondence, notes from oral interviews, and articles, relating to Dyer’s invention of a machine which he believed would achieve powered flight and perpetual motion....
Cledo Brunetti papers, 1936-1971 - Papers contain class lectures, publications, and other papers relating printed circuits, electronic production, microelectronics, mechanics, plastics, ceramics, design of microminiature electronic equipment, aeronautical, industrial, and medical instrumen...
Cleveland Tractor Company Records, 1913-1934 - Records consist of patents on various Cleveland Tractor Company equipment....
Clifford J. Nuttal Papers, 1946-1969 - Clifford J. Nuttal was a naval engineer who designed water craft (amphibious and land vehicles). The papers include: technical reports from the United States Army and Army Contractors, research notes, test results, lab reports, personal records, correspon...
Cling-Surface Company Records, 1900-1959 - Founded in 1896 by Albert Barnes Young, Cling-Surface manufactured dressings to prevent slippage of power transmission belts. During World War II the company produced dubbing for shoes and other leather products for use in the military.
Clowes-Clarke Family Papers, 1789-1927 - Papers include correspondence and other papers of Issac Clowes (b. 1772), and inventor, farmer, and religious enthusiast of Virginia and his sister, Aletta Clowes Clarke (1761-1810) of Delaware. Topics include agricultural and business affairs, social and...
Coal and Gas Trust Investigation Collection, 1870-1929 - The papers document an investigation by M.L. Webb, an attorney, into possible trust violations by the coal and gas industry of ...
Cobb Family Photographs, 1909 - Consists of a photograph album. Included is a document assigning patent rights for a churning machine from the inventor, Robert T. Simmons, to Leonard Y. Cobbs....
Cocke Family Papers, 1725-1939 - The papers of the Cocke family of Fluvanna County, Virginia, and related Barraud family, Faulcon family, and other families, consist of ca. 25,000 items, (194 Hollinger boxes, ca. 64.5 linear shelf feet), 1725- 1939, and contains correspondence, legal and...
Coke Family Papers, 1822-1936 - The majority of the papers are financial. Included are two U.S. patents, one for car-couplings and one for band cutters and feeders, registered to James Guthrie Coke, et al in 1882....
Coleman Sellers Letters and Accounts, 1806-1838 - ...
Collier Family Papers, 1833-1896 - Papers include material on the invention of a fountain pen in 1874 by H.C. Collier. ...
Collins Company Records, 1837- - Includes trademark registers, patents of Luke Chapman, correspondence and reports of a Collinsville, Connecticut edge tool manufacturer....
Columbus Steam Pump Company Records, 1846-1914 - Correspondence, cash and wage receipts, check registers, tool invoice, and journals of a steam pump and hydraulic machinery manufacturing company....
Cominco, Ltd., selected records, 1896-1985, 1987 - An extensive collection of records selected by Cominco, from officesin Vancouver, Trail, and elsewhere. The collection includes annualreports, early correspondence, financial and legal records, researchand development records, records of metallurgic...
Commonplace book of music, 1727 - Musical commonplace book, compiled and written by Gerber, a student of Johann Sebastian Bach at Leipzig. According to the biographical account by his son, Gerber returned to his home in 1727 an...
Company records, 1905-1994. Capitol Gears, Inc. - Records of a machine shop in St. Paul's Midway District that manufactured marine engines, transmissions, gears, and other products. Includes minute and stock certificate books, financial statem...
Company Records, 1938. Dunkley Company. - This collection consists of records relating to a cherry pitting machine manufactured by the Dunkley Company of Kalamazoo, Michigan....
Computer Oral History Collection, 1969-1973, 1977 - Interviews were conducted 1969-1973 in a cooperative project between the Smithsonian Institution and its Division of Mathematics and the American Federation of Information Processing Societies, with scientists, mathematicians, engineers, physicists, and b...
Confederate States of America Records, 1861-1865 - Records contain correspondence with the Patent Office, assignments, and a patent....
Connon family fonds, [ca. 1833-1931] - The Connon family were resident in Elora, Ontario in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century. They operated a general store and a photographic studio. John R. Connon (1862-1931) was a professional photographer and inventor of p...
Constantine Samuel Rafinesque Papers, 1815-1834 and undated - Constantine Samuel Rafinesque (1783-1840) was born near Constantinople. In 1792, he moved with his family to Leghorn, Italy, where he was educated by private tutors. Rafinesque showed an early enthusiasm for the study of nature, beginning the systematic c...
Construction Innovation Forum Records, 1987-2001 - International non-profit organization established in 1987 to recognize innovations in the construction industry that improve the quality, efficiency and cost effectiveness of construction. Administrative records, including minutes and re...
Containerization Oral History Collection, 1995-1998 - Original audio cassettes and transcripts of oral history interviews with individuals involved in the transportation industry known as containerization. ...
Continental Inc. Records, ca. 1945-1955 - Continental Inc., was formed in 1945 at the Danbury Airport in Danbury, CT, to develop a “roadable aircraft designed by Robert E. Fulton, the company’s president. The cabin of the Fulton Airphibian was designed to be detached from its fuselage and wings a...
Contract file - This record group consists of documents removed from the Secretary's Contract File in the Radio Corporation of America because of supposed historical value. At some point after 1980, they became associated with the B.L. Aldridge file in Record Group II, b...
Control Data Corporation records. Engineering, Research and Development, 1957-1986 (bulk 1960s-1970s) - This series documents the research, development, and engineering activities of the Control Data Corporation from 1957-1985 (bulk 1960s and 1970s). Materials include memos, correspondence, phot...
Cook Family Papers 1872-1976 - The Cook Family Papers, dating from 1872 to 1976, include material documenting the lives of the children of Arthur Clarico and Emma Blow Freeman, and later generations. Most of the collection centers on the personal and business papers of Allen Merriam Co...
Cooley Family Papers, 1869-1960 - Papers of Charles Andrew Cooley and other members of the Cooley family of Detroit, Michigan. Collection contains information about inventors. ...
Cooper-Hewitt collection, [ca. 1783-1953] - Peter Cooper (1791-1883) was a manufacturer, inventor, philanthropist, and founder of Cooper Union. Cooper's son-in-law Abram S. Hewitt (1822-1903) was a manufacturer, philanthropist, U.S. Repr...
Copies of Patent Records, 1886 - Copies of Patent Records: 1) Department of the Interior, General Land Office. Certificate #110, to Fred McLosky of Alturas County, ID Lot #5, Block 11, Ketchum, ID. December 6, 1886, 2) Department of the Interior General Land Offi...
Corle Family Papers, 1825-1861 - Papers include correspondence, financial records, and legal documents, of Charles Corle. A patent for the engine pump (1861) granted to Gilbert Van Camp is also included. ...
Cornelia F. Bedell Papers, ca. 1840-1951 - Manuscripts of music, verse, and stories, correspondence, descriptions, brochures, and patent papers concerning games and puzzles invented by Bedell, 1933-1940. ...
Corona Camera: A Videohistory, 1996 - This videohistory explores the contributions of Walter Levison, Frank Madden, and F. Dow Smith in creating a satellite camera that provided photographic imagery of earth from space. Discussed are the technical antecedents of the camera in two balloon reco...
Correspondence Files of the Special Collections Department, 1931-1990s - The papers in this collection consist chiefly of the general correspondence files of the Special Collections Department and like files of its predecessors, the Rare Book Department and the Manuscripts Department. Included are patron use ...
Correspondence of Guglielmo Marconi, 1899-1902 -		Guglielmo Marconi was an Italian physicist who spent much of his professional life in Great Britain. In the late 1890s he began experimenting with wireless telegraphy, whi...
Corsets (Vertical Ephemera Files, Warshaw Collection of Business Americana), 1747-1949. - Primarily advertising cards, correspondence on letterhead stationery, envelopes, bills, receipts, post cards, calendars, blotters, business cards, and printed advertisements from manufacturers, dealers, and im...
Cox (A.G.) Manufacturing Company Records, 1887-1938 - Records contain sales accounts, weekly time books, and patents of a farm implements manufacturing company. Included also are patents for a plow harness and a school desk-set combination....
Coxe Brothers and Company Records, 1870-1935 - Records include annual reports, record book of foreign patents, prints and specifications concerning patents issued to Eckley B. Coxe, a list of patents issued to Coxe, and drawings of mine machinery and buildings, Also included are maps, deeds, leases, a...
Cranch Family Papers, 1749-1928 - Primarily the papers of the Cranch Family, but included are Richard Cranch’s inventions for clocks. ...
Cray Research Incorporated Records, n.d. - Records contain minutes of executive board meetings, financial and accounting records, annual reports, contracts, patents, sales and marketing materials, research and development materials, technical manuals, product specifications, facility blueprints, a...
Curt I. Civin Video Documentation, June 5, 1997 - In the 1970s when Civin began stem cell research, little was known about progeniters, the cells of all other blood lineages. Civin thought that stem cells had their own identifying surface proteins. To test this, he immunized mice with leukemia cells, som...
Curtis Hoover Ltd. Fonds, [1946- 1957] - Curtis Hoover founded numerous companies specializing in oilfield engineering. Incorporations and name changes are as follows: the Hoover Machine Company Ltd. was incorporated on Feb 10, 1940; on Jan 10, 1952, Curtis Hoover Ltd. was incorporated; on Augus...
Curtiss Flying School Photograph Collection, ca. 1912-1915 - Glenn Hammond Curtiss (1878-1930) worked with mechanical objects, seeking faster forms of travel. He developed bicycles, motorcycyles, and aircraft. This collection consists of mounted photographs depicting Curtiss aircraft, flying schools, plants, and pe...
Curtiss Veeder, n.d. - A brief biography giving ancedotes about Veeder’s inventions. Typescript draft with manuscript corrections. ...
Curtiss-Wright Corporation Records, ca. 1925-1949 - This collection contains technical and engineering reports of the Curtiss -Wright Airplane Division’s operations. Includes files of the Patent Department, records of patent filed by Curtiss-Wright and patent-infringement cases involving Curtiss-Wright, fi...
Cushing metallurgical furnace typescript, 1935-1937 - A portfolio of business letters, patents, plans, blueprints, and photographs....
Cushman Family Papers, 1918-1985 (inclusive) - This collection primarily consists of the correspondence, a few diaries, limited financial records, and memorabilia of William and Clarice Cushman of Missoula, Montana, and their son, Roger Cushman. The bulk of the correspondence is letters to Clarice ...

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