Edward Goodrich Acheson papers, (Record no. 39312)
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| NUCMC control number | ms 76000140 |
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| Original cataloging agency | DLC |
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| Transcribing agency | DLC |
| Modifying agency | DLC |
| 072 #7 - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE | |
| Subject category code | S |
| Source | lcmd |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Acheson, Edward Goodrich, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1856-1931. |
| 245 00 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Edward Goodrich Acheson papers, |
| Inclusive dates | 1872-1968 |
| Bulk dates | (bulk 1899-1930). |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 13,000 |
| Type of unit | items. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 48 |
| Type of unit | containers plus |
| Extent | 2 |
| Type of unit | oversize. |
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| Extent | 20.5 |
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| 351 ## - ORGANIZATION AND ARRANGEMENT OF MATERIALS | |
| Organization | Arranged in 6 series. Series 1: Diaries, 1884-1931; Series 2: Letterbooks, 1889-1915; Series 3: Business Correspondence, 1910-1934; Series 4: General Correspondence, 1873-1968; Series 5: Miscellany, 1872-1956; and Series 6: Oversize. |
| 506 0# - RESTRICTIONS ON ACCESS NOTE | |
| Terms governing access | Open to research. |
| 520 8# - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Correspondence, diaries, laboratory notebooks relating to his various experiments and inventions, biographical material, financial records, newspaper clippings, and other papers relating to Acheson's career as an electrochemist, engineer, and inventor as well as to his companies. Includes a typescript of his autobiography entitled A Pathfinder: Discovery, Invention and Industry (1910), two volumes of court proceedings concerning a case in which Acheson's Carborundum Company was involved in 1894, and research materials of his biographer, Raymond Szymanowitz. Correspondents include John P. Deringer, Thomas A. Edison, Alfred E. Hunt, John Seys Huyler, Andrew W. Mellon, E.L. Nichols, Walther Rathenau, William Acheson Smith, and Edmund C. Sprague; Acheson's sons, Edward Acheson (1887-1962), George Wilson Acheson, John Huyler Acheson, and Raymond Mahler Acheson; and organizations including Bakewell & Bakewell, Cowles Electric Smelting and Aluminum Company, and the Electrochemical Society. |
| 545 0# - BIOGRAPHICAL OR HISTORICAL DATA | |
| Biographical or historical data | Electrochemist, engineer, and inventor. |
| 546 ## - LANGUAGE NOTE | |
| Language note | Collection material in English. |
| 555 8# - CUMULATIVE INDEX/FINDING AIDS NOTE | |
| Cumulative index/finding aids note | Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011057">http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011057</a> |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Acheson, Edward Goodrich, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1887-1962 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Acheson, George Wilson, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1892- |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Acheson, John Huyler, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1893-1938 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Acheson, Raymond Mahler, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1888- |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Deringer, John P. |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Edison, Thomas A. |
| Fuller form of name | (Thomas Alva), |
| Dates associated with a name | 1847-1931 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Hunt, Alfred E. |
| Fuller form of name | (Alfred Ephraim), |
| Dates associated with a name | 1855-1899 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Huyler, John Seys, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1846-1910 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Mellon, Andrew W. |
| Fuller form of name | (Andrew William), |
| Dates associated with a name | 1855-1937 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Nichols, E. L. |
| Fuller form of name | (Edward Leamington), |
| Dates associated with a name | 1854-1937 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Rathenau, Walther, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1867-1922 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Smith, William Acheson |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Sprague, Edmund C. |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Szymanowitz, Raymond, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1898- |
| 610 20 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | Bakewell & Bakewell |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 610 20 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | Carborundum Company (Niagara Falls, N.Y.) |
| 610 20 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | Cowles Electric Smelting and Aluminum Company |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 610 20 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | Electrochemical Society |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Chemistry. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Electrochemistry. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Inventions. |
| 656 #7 - INDEX TERM--OCCUPATION | |
| Occupation | Electrochemists. |
| Source of term | itoamc |
| 656 #7 - INDEX TERM--OCCUPATION | |
| Occupation | Engineers. |
| Source of term | itoamc |
| 656 #7 - INDEX TERM--OCCUPATION | |
| Occupation | Inventors. |
| Source of term | itoamc |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Acheson, Edward Goodrich, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1856-1931. |
| Title of a work | A pathfinder: discovery, invention and industry; how the world came to have aquadag and oildag; also carborundum, artificial graphite and other valuable products of the electric furnace. The first of a series of educational biographical sketches of eminent inventors. |
| Date of a work | 1910 |
| 856 4# - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Materials specified | Finding aid |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011057">http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011057</a> |
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| Materials specified | Finding aid (PDF) |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011057.3">http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011057.3</a> |
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