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Eisler Engineering Company Records,
1885-1988 (bulk 1920-1950s)

Extent and Forms of Material: 30 cubic feet, including photographs and blueprints (49 boxes, 25 oversize folders)
Creator: Eisler Engineering Company
Abstract: Records document Charles Eisler, a Hungarian immigrant who was a skilled mechanic and engineer and his company, Eisler Engineering Company of Newark, New Jersey, which manufactured equipment for producing electric lamps, television and radio tubes, welding equipment and laboratory equipment.
Repository: Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; archivescenter@si.edu; 202-633-3270; www.americanhistory.si.edu/archives
Collection Number: AC0734
Processing Note: Processed by John Mask, intern, and Alison Oswald, archivist, December 2006.
© 2008 by the Smithsonian Institution. All rights reserved.

Information for users of the collection

Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for research use. Series 3, Employee Records, personnel files are restricted; see repository for details.
Physical Access: Researchers must handle unprotected photographs with gloves.
Conditions Governing Reproduction and Use: Copyright held by the Smithsonian Institution. Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Reproduction permission from Archives Center: fees for commercial use.
Preferred Citation: [Title and date of item], Eisler Engineering Company Records, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, box number X, folder number XX, digital file number XXXXXXXX

Container listing: series 5, 6, 7

Series 1 ::: Series 2 ::: Series 3 ::: Series 4 ::: Series 5 ::: Series 6 ::: Series 7 ::: Series 8 ::: Series 9

		SERIES 5, DIAGRAMS AND DRAWINGS, 1924-1960
		Subseries 1, Wiring Diagrams, 1934-1956
32	1	Master File, 1935-1956
	2	Timers and Contactors, 1936-1946
	3	Special Timers and Contactors, 1934-1946
	4	Transformers, Undated
	5	Machine No. 1001 Air Operated Electric Contact Clamp, Undated
		Subseries 2, Drawings, 1924-1960, undated
	O/S Folder 10	Metro Light Corp. 37 East 18th Street, New York, NY August 27, 1931
		Miniature lamp factory layout for Multi Lite Corp. Newark, NJ January 3, 1933
		Chas. Eisler Engineering Co. Newark, NJ Undated
		Factory layout for Northern MFG Co. 371 Ogden Street Newark, NJ Undated
		Factory layout for B.H. Schmitt 215 Clarkson Avenue Brooklyn, NJ July 29, 1924
		Radio Romanuck Works Equipment required for new proposed radio tube plant for 50,000 radio tubes per day Leningrad, USSR December 15, 1932
		Productos Nacionales (Proposed machine layout for) October 12, 1932
		Radio Romanuck Works New proposed radio tube plant for 50,000 radio tubes per day Leningrad, USSR December 15, 1932
		Plan showing land and track to be leased to Lesire Corporation C.R.R. Company of New Jersey Dover, NJ August 2, 1960
		East Blackwell Street Diagram and surrounding area Undated
		Machine Coiler Machine No. 1
	O/S Folder 11	Filament Coil Cutter Machine No. 4-CE
	O/S Folder 12	Tube Bending Machine No. 13-RT, A
	O/S Folder 1	Watch Crystal Forming Machine No. 23-6WN
		Auto Stem Machine No. 23-24P Esiler Tracings
	O/S Folder 2	Auto Stem Machine No. 23-24P Drawing 8 (originals)
	O/S Folder 3	Auto Stem Machine No. 23-24P Blue prints
	O/S Folder 4	Auto Stem Machine No. 23-24P Arrow Machine Tracings
	O/S Folder 5	Auto Stem Machine Folder 2 Arrow Machine Co. Exhaust Tube feed Chuck Opener Auto Wire feed Sketches Unloader Turret Stem head Flare Feed Table and Spider Cover
	O/S Folder 6	Auto Stem Machine Folder 2 Arrow Machine Co. Cane Feed Details Button and cane Feed Details Fear Box Gas and Air Blow Out and Manifolds Cams/Cam levers (CL) Flare and tube Gauge Parts Lists
	O/S Folder 7	Stem Heads Machine Nos. 20, 27, 20-B, 20-D, 20-F, 20-L, 20-S, 20-EY, 20-ES, 20-YK, 20-ST, 20-BSP Special Stem 221-D
	O/S Folder 8	Stem heads, folder 3, draw no. 6 Machine No. 23-12 TEC/TCM
	O/S Folder 9	Stem heads Machine No. 20-FS, 20-SH, 20-BM, draw no. 6
	O/S Folder 13	Getter Cup Machine No. 32-J
	O/S Folder 14	Grid Flattener and Cutter Machine No. 43-A
	O/S Folder 15	Sealing Machine No. 57-7-7
		Bulb Carbonizing Machine No. 57-CAR
		Water Level Sealing Machine No. 57-8-4WL
	O/S Folder 16	Cathode Ray and Tube Sealing Machine No. 57-16-8TV
	O/S Folder 17	Exhaust Machine No. 59
		McLead Gauge Machine No. 59-N
		Neon Units Machine No. 59-NP, NM, N6
		Ex. Machine and G.E. Solar Collector Machine 59-FE
	O/S Folder 18	5 Position Manifold Machine No. 59-R, RT, SUR, C
	O/S Folder 19	Basing and Soldering Machine No. 89-BS, M, BH
	O/S Folder 20	Flashing and Soldering photos and Basing and Soldering 36 Head Machine No. 89-CSV
	O/S Folder 21	Butt Sealing (Tipless) Machine No. 102-D
		X-Ray Butt Sealing Machine No. 102-X
	O/S Folder 22	Beading Machine No. 104, 105-MBT
	O/S Folder 23	Forming Tool for Fluorescent Tubes Machine No. 116-FLO
	O/S Folder 24	G.E. Solar Heat Collector Machine No. 160-12-BFL
	O/S Folder 25	Sealing Machine and G.E. Solar Heat Collector Machine No. 160-12-BFL
44	1	A.S. Stem Machine Flare and Tube Gauge Tracings, Undated
	2	A.S. Stem Machine Flare Feed, 1925
	3	A.S. Stem Machine Unloader, 1926-940
	4	Auto Stem Machine No. 23-24P Drawings never used
	5	Auto Stem Machine Drawings never used
	6	Auto Stem Machine Blueprints
45	1	A.S. Stem Machine Cane Feed Drawings, 1925
	2	A.S. Stem Machine Cane Feed Drawings, 1925
40	1-2	Specification drawings (index)
	3	Fire, burner, miscellaneous, and tool drawings
	4	Small jobs, machine names and parts index
	5-6	Light bulb drawings and specifications
45	4	Subseries 3, Drafting tools, undated
		SERIES 6, SALES RECORDs, 1924-1984
		Subseries 1, Customer Sales Lists, 1951-1958
	7	1956-1958
	8	1951-1952
		Subseries 2, Lamp Machinery Sales Records, 1929-1958
	9	1929-1938
	10	1937-1958
		Subseries 3, Eisler Catalogs, 1924-1979
	11	1924
	12	1929
	13	1933
	14	1934
	15	1935
	16	1936
	17	1937
	18	1938
	19	1941
	20	1945
	21	1948
	22	1949
	23	1950
	24	1951
	25	1953
	26	1955
	27	1956
	28	1958
	29	1971, 1972, 1974, 1979
	30	Undated
43		Index cards for Eisler catalog
		Subseries 4, Other companies catalogs, 1929-1984
40	31	Arrow Manufacturing and Machine Co., 1929
	32	EnerPac Hydraulics Tools, 1983
	33	Federal Standard Stock Catalogue, 1930
	34	General Elevator, 1984
	35	Ideal, [1966?]
40	36	Photographs from magazines for new catalogs, undated
	37	Index for catalog 43-B; CE-48B; 45-CE; 49-FLN
		SERIES 7, LITIGATION AND PATENT RECORDS, 1897-1953
		Subseries 1, Litigation Records, 1926-1929, 1949, 1953
41	1	General Electric vs. Charles Eisler and Eisler Engineering Co. Brief for the Defendant, 1927 On US Patents Nos. 1,128,120 and 1,220,836
	2	General Electric vs. Charles Eisler and Eisler Engineering Co. Brief for the Defendants, 1926 In equity No. 1148
	3	General Electric vs. Charles Eisler and Eisler Engineering Co. Brief for the Defendants, Undated In equity No. 1150
	4	General Electric vs. Charles Eisler and Eisler Engineering Co. Brief for the Plaintiff, 1926 In equity No. 1148
	5	General Electric vs. Charles Eisler and Eisler Engineering Co. Plaintiff's brief, Undated In equity No. 1150
	6	General Electric vs. Charles Eisler and Eisler Engineering Co. Brief for the Plaintiff-Appellant, Undated
	7	General Electric vs. Charles Eisler and Eisler Engineering Co. Brief for the Defendants-Appellees, Undated Docket no. 4074
	8	General Electric vs. Charles Eisler and Eisler Engineering Co. Brief for the Plaintiff, 1928 No. 3725, March 1928 No. 3748, March 1928
	9	General Electric vs. Charles Eisler and Eisler Engineering Co. Brief for the Defendant-Appellants and Defendant-Appellees, February 24, 1928 Docket no. 3725 Docket No. 3748
	10	General Electric vs. Charles Eisler and Eisler Engineering Co. Transcript of Record, March 1928
	11	General Electric vs. Charles Eisler and Eisler Engineering Co. Transcript of Record, October 1929 Volume 2. Exhibit Book Docket No. 4074
	12	United States of America vs. General Electric Company Opinion, 1953 Civil Action No. 1364
	13	United States of America vs. General Electric Company Final Judgment, 1953 Civil Action No. 4575
	14	Antitrust/Lamp Monopoly, 1949
	15	Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co. vs. Beacon Lamp Co., Leopold Rossbach, C. L. Shoninger, A.H. Moses, L.E. Whicher and J.T. Hambay Record, filed March 1, 1897
		Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co. vs. Beacon Lamp Co. Brief for Complainant, March 1898 In equity No. 11 Docket No. 58, September 1896
	16	William Harris correspondence, 1927-1940
		Subseries 2, Patents, 1913-1931
	17	Tube Patents, 1924-1931, Book 3
	18	Raytheon Tube Patents, 1913-1929

Series 1 ::: Series 2 ::: Series 3 ::: Series 4 ::: Series 5 ::: Series 6 ::: Series 7 ::: Series 8 ::: Series 9

Last Update: 8 Jul 2009

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