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Cyrenius Wakefield and Company Records, 1944-1967
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Patent medicine manufacturer founded in 1847 by brothers Zera and Cyrenius Wakefield, best known for its Wakefield’s Blackberry Balsam. Company records include cash books, journal, ledger, daybook, medicine formula book and advertising material of C. Wake...
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Cyrus Bentley papers [manuscript], 1847-1930
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Corrected page proofs dated 1930 for the book entitled, The Invention of the McCormick Reaper, by Chicago lawyer Cyrus Bentley. Plus a last will and testament of William Bentley, 1847; and an 1890 apartment lease....
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Cyrus Hall McCormick Correspondence & Subject File, 1788-1939
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Papers of McCormick, inventor of the reaper, and a Chicago industrialist, comprising correspondence, memoranda, and letterbooks concerning the growth of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company. The correspondence is voluminous and contains personal and b...
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Cyrus Hall McCormick Papers, 1855-1861
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Business correspondence pertaining to the sale of reapers invented by McCormick. ...
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D.S. Morgan Company Collection, 1843-1942
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D.S. Morgan & Company billed themselves as the firm who manufactured the first successful reaping machine. The collection contains business correspondence, papers relating to McCormick’ patent and litigation, patents, patent renewals and litigation of...
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D.T. Dudley and Son Records, 1877-1926
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Records conatin correspondence, patents, financial and inventory records, work papers, and photographs of a textile shuttle manufacturing firm....
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d’Arusmont Family Papers, 182?-1915
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Papers relate to systems of musical and phonetic notation devised by William Phiquepal d’Arsumont (1779-1855) and continued by other family members. The papers contain patent applications and notebooks of philosophical observations, correspondence, charts...
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Dache McClain Reeves, 1917-1970
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Correspondence, patents, career resume, investigation of alleged fifth column activity during World War II and other papers....
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Dan Gibson fonds, 1943-2006
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Daniel Armstrong Gibson was born on January 19, 1922 in Montreal. He attended Upper Canada College from 1937 to 1940. It is in Algonquin Park at Camp Ahmek as a camper and then staff member that he fell in love with wildlife and the wilderness. Camp Di...
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Daniel Augustis Tompkins Papers, 1774-1976
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Letters and papers relating to Tompkins’ work in Pennsylvania steel industry, specifically with the Bethlehem Iron Works, his career as an industrial engineer in North Carolina, his personal life, and his activities as co-owner of the Charlotte Observer a...
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Daniel French Papers, 1796-1816
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Papers include business records with patent applications and items concerning French’s shingle and tile making machine and patent materials....
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Daniel Hall Family Papers, 1849-1870
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Papers consisting of correspondence relating to patents, and marketing of a recumbent chair and bag tie, and bills of sale....
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Daniel Henderson Portable Electronic Devices Documentary Collection, 1968-2002
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Inventor who worked closely with Kazuo Hashimoto, widely recognized for having developed the telephone answering machine. After Hashimoto died in August 1995, Henderson strove to ensure that Hashimoto’s wor...
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Daniel J. McQuaid Papers, 1943-1982
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Correpondence, pamphlets, manuals, newspaper clippings, drawings, and photos, relating to a system devised for converting blueprints to three-dimensional drawings....
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Daniel Lynch Papers, 1840-1916
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Contains information on the invention of the mop ringer....
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Daniel W. Lord Papers, 1830-1892
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Papers contain items related to Lord’s invention of and improvements on the buoyant propeller. Included are previous and related patents, notes, sketches, and items related to his application and patents....
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Dann Brothers and Company Records, 1867-1930
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Dana Brothers and Company manufactured carriage and wagon bodies, gears, and bent wood. Records contain correspondence, financial ledgers, patents, stock certificates, advertisements, clippings, and other records. ...
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Darby Windsurfing Collection, 1946-1998
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S. Newman Darby and Ken Darby conceived, designed and developed The Darby Sailboard in November 1964.
Newman Darby, born in West Pittston, Pa., invented windsurfing in 1964 when he connected a sail to a board by means of a universal rope...
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Dave M. Manning Collection, 1930-1984
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This collection consists of materials relating to the business career, legislative service, and personal life of Dave M. Manning. Records consist of business records (1930s-1970s) including files for the Yucca Movie Theatre (Hysham, Montana), Manning's co...
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David A. Roach Papers, 1870-1918
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Roach was an attorney in Crawfordsville, was elected prosecuting-attorney for the Judicial Circuit Court, was secretary-treasurer of the Clip Body Company, and later sheriff of the Indiana Supreme Court. The collection includes Roach’s business correspond...
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David Baltimore Papers, 1959-1992
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David Baltimore graduated from Swarthmore College and Rockefeller University. He became an associate professor of biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1968, professor of biology in 1972, and was appointed American Cancer Society Profess...
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David Bushnell Papers, 1783-1956
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Bushnell’s papers contain miscellaneous materials and documents about his inventions include letters with accounts of Bushnell’s submarine and attempts to promote Bushnell’s naval warning device. ...
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David F. Fisher Papers, 1870
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Letter of FIsher, Commission of the Patent Office to Senator Henry B. Anthony regarding the impossible situation to comply with the provisions of a house resolution which specifies that all copies of patents must be signed by the comissioner. ...
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David F. Waugh Papers, 1932-1989
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David F. Waugh developed a quick and accurate test for active insulin and a method of synthesis which increased insulin production. Waugh’s teaching activities are documented in course notes for classes he taught at MIT; his research is recorded in a sequ...
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David Gittens Innovative Lives Presentation, May 7, 1997
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Gittens's Ikenga 5302 has several applications--aerial photography, aerial surveying, air courier, border patrol, cattle herding, commuting, crop spraying, flying doctors, intelligence gathering, pipe line inspection, postal service, reconnaissance, and s...
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David P. Doughtery Papers, 1858
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Indenture whereby David P. Dougherty and Alfred T. Ludington purchased the patent rights to an improvement on a churn. ...
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David Peck Todd Papers, 1862-1939
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Astronomer, teacher, writer, aeronautical enthusiast, inventor; B.A., Amherst, 1875; Ph.D. Washington and Jefferson College, 1888; professor of astronomy and director of the observatory at Amherst College, 1888-1917; leader of expeditions to observe so...
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David Thompson's notebooks and journals, 1789-1851, 1864
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David Thompson (1770-1857) was a fur trader, surveyor, and astronomer known for his explorations and mapping of western Canada, as well as his survey work on the United States border for the Briti...
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David W. Brunton Engineering Record, 1870-1920
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Colorado mining engineer, inventor, consultant. B. June 11, 1849 Ayre, Ont., Canada. Began residence and work in Colorado 1875; also worked as engineer and consultant in many Western states and foreign countries. Some Colorado projects with which associat...
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David W. Brunton Letters, 1912-1916
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Letters of David W. Brunton in three notebooks. Letters contain business and professional matters....
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Daystrom, Inc. Records, ca. 1750-1938
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Colllection contains patents for type and print designs dated primarily from the 1880s and twentieth century....
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Dayton Reginald Eugene Brown Papers, 1942-1971
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Correspondence, diagrams, publications, and tape recordings, relating to Brown’s experiments in camouflage and illumination. Also included are research notes and material on patents and inventions....
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Dell Computer Corporation Records, n.d.
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Records consist of minutes of executive board meetings, financial and accounting records, correspondence, annual reports, regulatory information, contracts and bids, patents, sales and marketing information, catalogues and price lists, purchase orders, an...
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Dennis Gabor Correspondence, 1961-1969
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Gabor (1900-1979) held over 100 patents and won the 1971 Nobel prize for physics for his invention of holography. He also corresponded with numerous persons who shared his interest in futurism.
Collection contains correspondence, with at...
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Department of Agriculture fonds, 1845-1990
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The Bureau of Agriculture and Statistics was created by the United Province of the Canadas (present-day Ontario and Quebec) in 1852. The original Bureau...
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Department of Consumer and Corporate Affairs fonds, [ca 1760-1988]
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The Department of Consumer and Corporate Affairs was established in 1967 (SC 1967, c.16) and upon dissolution in 1993 many of its functions were transferred to the Department of Industry.The Department of Consumer and Corporate Affairs was an "umbrella...
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Deposition in the case of John Ames v. Charles Howard, et al., 1833 [photoprints].
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Thomas Gilpin was born in Philadelphia on Sept. 10, 1776, and died there on March 3, 1853. With his brother, Joshua (1765-1841), he established Delaware’s first paper mill near Wilmington in 1787. Thomas Gilpin invented and patented the first continuou...
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Deposition of Charles R. Cross in United States of America v. American Bell Telephone Company and Emile Berliner, 1893.
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Contains the deposition of Charles Cross, Thayer Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who was called as an expert witness in the patent controversy involving the invention of the telephone. ...
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Descriptions for improvements of steamboats, 1816 Jan. 24.
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Steamboat entrepreneur and inventor.
Certified copy, dated Jan. 24, 1816, of original documents (1809 and undated) by Fulton, ...
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Descriptive accounts of agricultural inventions and of the business cycle, 1940.
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Descriptive accounts of agricultural inventions and of the business cycle....
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Design for a moveable iron-clad battery, n.d.
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The design is apparently a Civil War-era invention of a cannon battery with iron armor which was designed to advance across land on rails to attack the walls of Fort Monroe, Virginia. Extensive pencil notations in the margin explain the design. ...
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Designs for Cigar Labels, 1904-1921
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The collection consists of 71 patent sheets representing patents obtained for stone lithographic designs for cigar box labels. Each patent is accompanied by a specimen printing of the label concerned....
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Diesel engine papers, 1908-1929
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Elmer A. Sperry was born on October 12, 1860, in Cortland, N.Y. He attended the local elementary schools and then enrolled in Cornell University. At Cornell he developed an interest in electrical engineering and began working with a group of Syracuse i...
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Digest of patents relating to breech-loading and magazine small arms, (except revolvers) granted in the United States from 1836 to 1873 inclusive, classified and arranged according to the movement of the principal parts for opening and closing the breech
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Digest of patents relating to breech-loading and magazine small arms, (except revolvers) granted in the United States from 1836 to 1873 inclusive, classified and arranged according to the movement of the principal parts for opening and closing the breech ...
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Digital Equipment Corporation Records, n.d.
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Materials contain financial and accounting records, day files of senior management, correspondence, annual reports, sales and marketing materials, research and development materials, catalogues and price lists, technical manuals, product specifications, a...
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Directors of Industrial Research (U.S.) Records, 1929-1982
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The Directors of Industrial Research was formed in 1923 by and for the directors of America's foremost industrial research laboratories, and has functioned as a forum for the exchange of ideas and information on topics of mutual interest.
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Division of Electricity and Modern Phyics Records, 1886-1978
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These records of the Division of Electricity and Modern Physics relating to electricity consist of some early general correspondence, primarily of George C. Maynard, but also including that of J. Elfreth Watkins and Carl W. Mitman, concerning the inventio...
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Division of Engineering Records, 1886-1956
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These records document the activities of the Division of Engineering and its predecessors. Included is early correspondence between curators and administrators of the United States National Museum and the Smithsonian; an incomplete general correspondence ...
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Division of Research Development and Administration (University of Michigan) Records, 1919-1988
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The University of Michigan Department of Engineering Research was established in 1919 within the College of Engineering. In 1948, it was reconstituted outside the college as the Engineering Research Institute. In 1958, it was again reorganized as the Univ...
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Documents Collection, 1800(ca.)-1982.
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Certificates, awards, deeds, leases, indentures, insurance policies, wills, and miscellany of Troy and Rensselaer County residents. Also letters patent for stove designs, issued to residents of...
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