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Dodge Moving Stair Patents, 1870s-1905 (bulk 1898-1899) - Primarly patents (German and French), licenses, drawings, pamphlets, relating to Dodge’s patents on moving stairs....

Dolby Laboratories, Inc. Records -

Research and Development subgroup (lab notebooks mainly); legal correspondence; product engineering and manufacturing drawings; museum objects (breadboards, prototypes, and a few "homegrown" manufacturing devices); test data and photographs generated d...

Dominick Labino Papers, 1929-1975 - Labino was born in Fairmount City, PA and studied at the Carneige Institute of Technology and Toldeo Museum of Art School of Design. He is a glassblower and sculptor, using a technique of free hand blowing and hot glass sculpting. Labino’s papers inlcude ...

Dominion Resources Incorporated Records, n.d. - Records contain minutes of executive board meetings, financial and accounting records, annual reports, sales and marketing materials, research and development materials, facility blueprints, and memorabilia....

Don Carlos Buell Papers, 1813-1961 - Papers include correspondence regarding a patent Buell submitted for a steam dishwashing machine, 1876-1889. Also included are letters from Scientific American and others discussing the machine....

Donald R. (Donald Robert) Hull Papers, 1941-1995. - Donald Robert Hull was born in Minneapolis, Minn., on January 31, 1911 and graduated from the University of Minnesota with a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering in 1934. He joined E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company in the same year and worked at ...

Donald Winslow Emmerson fonds, 1946-1979 -

Donald W. Emmerson, chemist, was born in Moncton, N.B. and received a B.Sc in Chemistry from Mount Allison University in 1937. After working successively with Al...

Donnelly Family Papers, 1875-1928 - John Donnelly, was an inventor and blacksmith of Brandford, Connecticut. Papers consist of correspondence, invoices, patents, diaries, and other papers relating to his inventions including tobacco pipes, scrapping tools, and can openers. ...

Dora de Pédery-Hunt fonds, 1920-1987 -

Dora de Pédery-Hunt, sculptor and medallist, was born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1913. She completed studies, in Budapest, at the Royal Academy of Applied Arts in 1943; two years later, she and her family moved to Hamburg, Germany, where her father, a ph...

Dorothy Benbow Ragsdale interview, June 14, 1982 - Interviewed by Donna Frey on 14 June 1982 in Columbus, Mont., as part of the repository's Montanans at Work Oral History Project. Topics include the life of her inventor-miner father, Thomas C. Benbow, and the Benbow chromium mine on

Rock Creek ne...

Dorothy F. Rodgers Papers, 1922-1987 - Writer and inventor Dorothy Feiner Rodgers (1909-1992) graduated from the Horace Mann School (1926) and attended Wellesley College (1926-1928). In 1930 she married composer Richard Rodgers; they had two daughters, Mary and Linda. Richard Rodgers died in 1...

Dorothy Ringle Papers, 1862-1961 -

The core of the Dorothy Ringle Papers is the information they contain on the political activities of several farmer's groups from 1941 through 1959. The minutes, correspondence, membership lists, reports and other materials focus on Rolla M. Myers' act...

Douglas Leigh Papers, 1903-1999 -

The collection measures 17.8 linear feet and dates from 1903 to 1999 (bulk 1924-1992) and documents the career of advertising designer and executive Douglas Leigh. Found are 83 volumes of publicity scrapbooks that contain most...

Douglas Tilden Papers, 1860-1970 -

Collection includes personal and professional correspondence (chiefly incoming), contracts, sketches, diaries, scrapbooks, manuscripts of published and unpublished writings, and "written" conversations between Tilden, who was deaf, and others. Also inc...

Douglass D-558 Drawings, 1946-1947 - The Douglass D-558 series aircraft were high-speed research aircraft designed by Douglass Aircraft for the United States Navy and the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) for flight testing at Munroc Dry Lake, California. The collection cont...

Douglass Ottinger, 1839-1892 - Ottinger’s papers include letters received, receipts, patent applications, transcripts of testimony in a disputed patent case, published congressional documents, and other papers relating to Ottinger’s inventions for the purpose of saving lives, together ...

Dr. Irvin M. Borish Papers, 1939-1996 -

The papers of Dr. Irvin Borish contain manuscripts, patents, awards and notices, conference proceedings, print items, correspondence, photographs, as well as audio and video recordings. Items in the collection date from 1937 to 1996 with...

Dr. Irvin M. Borish Papers, 1939-1996 - ...

Dr. William Phillips Innovative Lives Presentation, April 27, 2001 - Born November 5, 1948 in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. B.S., Juniata College, 1970; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1976.

Approx. 5-1/2 hours of video footage documenting an interview with Dr. William Phillips, a physicist and Nobel la...

Du Pont and Company Legal Department Records, 1801-1965 -

Records of the Legal Dept. include copies of the Du Pont Company's original partnership agreements between E.I. du Pont and Peter Bauduy (1801). There are also copies of the 1899 dissolution agreement

Dugald C. Jackson Papers, 1878-1952 - Family and professional correspondence, travel diaries, minutes, manuscripts of articles and speeches, reports, letters patents, memoranda, programs, clippings, printed material, and other papers relating to Jackson’s tenure as head of the Department of E...

Duke Power Company Records, n.d. - Materials consist of minutes of executive board meetings, fiancial and accounting records, correspondence, annual reports, regualtory information, contracts, patents, sales and marketing materials, research and development materials, catalogues and price ...

Duncan Family Yo-yo Collection, 1928-2002 - Manufacturers of the original wooden Duncan Yo-yo.

The corporate archives of the Duncan Yo-yo Company, including business and financial records, advertising, photographs, scrapbooks, training films, promotional material, and printed mate...

Dupont Nylon Collection, 1939-1977 - The E. I. DuPont De Nemours & Company was founded July 19, 1802 by Eleuthere Irenee DuPont on Brandywine Creek to manufacture gunpowder. From this beginning the company engaged in the research, development and manufacture of a variety of products, inc...

Duracell International Incorporated Records, n.d. -

Records deal with the battery industry and include minutes of executive board meetings, financial and accounting records, annual reports, regulatory information, patents, research and development materials, product specifications, and memorabilia. Phot...

E. Remington & Sons Records, 1879-1888 - Papers relating to the dissolution and reorganization of the company, which manufactured guns, agricultural implements, sewing machines, typewriters, and other products. Includes statements, drawings and patents concerning a sewing machine and improvement...

E.E. Josef Manufacturing Company Patent Records and Business Correspondence, 1888-1891 - Drawings, claims, and other papers concerning various inventions of E.E. Josef, 1888-1891; correspondence regarding product orders, mostly with Meadville Malleable Iron Company, 1929-1934; and business cards. ...

E.I. du Pont de Memours and Company. Executive Records, 1903-1991 (bulk 1950-1982) - The Executive Committee of E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company was formed on February 4, 1903, as part of the reorganization and modernization of the company undertaken by Pierre S., T. Coleman, and Alfred I. du Pont. It was initially composed of the pr...

E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Experimental Station. Records, 1908-1921. - In 1903 the Du Pont Company's Executive Committee established the Experimental Station, a research facility located on the banks of the Brandywine Creek across from Du Pont's first black powder works. Initially, the Experimental Station was to be a small ...

E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Foreign Relations Dept. Records, 1928-1947. - In 1929 E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company signed an agreement with the recently formed British combine, Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd. to exchange scientific information on a routine basis. Part of the reason for devising this agreement was to per...

E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Legal Dept. Records, 1801-1965. - The Legal Dept. was established as a staff department in 1905, following the reorganization of the company by 1902 Pierre Samuel du Pont, Alfred du Pont and T. Coleman du Pont.

Records of the Legal Dept. include copies of the Du Pont Com...

E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Office of the president. Records, 1909-1952 (bulk 1914-1948) - The black powder manufacturing company, E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, was organized as a family partnership in 1801. The original mills were located on the banks of the Brandywine River, just north of Wilmington, Delaware. By the second decade of...

Eagle Lock Company Records, 1860-1910 - Records consist of patent assignment, license and infringement materials....

Earl R. Larson Papers, 1981-1985 - As a judge of the Fourth Division of the United States District Court in Minnesota, Larson presided over the Honeywell vs. Sperry Rand trial (1971-1973) and ruled Sperry Rand’s patent invalid partly because the patent was derived from the work of John V. ...

Earl S. Tupper Papers, 1914-1970s - In 1937, Tupper went to work for DuPont. He left after a year to strike out on his own and in 1938, formed the Earl S. Tupper Company. His company advertised the design and engineering of industrial plastic products. The collection contains five series: p...

Earl Theisen Collection, 1771-1935 -

The Earl Theisen Collection spans the years 1773-1935 (bulk 1895-1934) and encompasses 1.0 linear foot. The collection consists primarily of correspondence and general files relating to the early history of the cinema. The correspondence files contain ...

Earl W. Kintner Papers, 1953-1975 - Earl W. Kintner (b. 1912), a lawyer, was in private and later public practice in Indiana from 1938-1948. He served as deputy U.S. Commissioner to the United Nations War Crimes Commission from 1945-1948. Kintner was with the Federal Trade Commision from 19...

Early Aeronautucal Plant Collection, ca. 1860-1932 - Collection contains patent drawings for devices pertaining to aeronautics. Mounted reproductions of patents issued between 1860 and 1898. Some include explanatory text for the drawing....

Eastman National Business College Records, 1844-1935 - Records include patents and advertisements from Harvey G. Eastman’s inventions. ...

Eaton Knitting Company office files, 1916-1958 -