04193cpcaa2200625 4500 mm 74049684 DLC 20260227111615.0 cr ||||||||||| 750331|||||||||||| eng mm 74049684 ms 76000140 DLC dacs DLC DLC S lcmd Acheson, Edward Goodrich, 1856-1931. Edward Goodrich Acheson papers, 1872-1968 (bulk 1899-1930). 13,000 items. 48 containers plus 2 oversize. 20.5 linear feet. 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. Open to research. 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. Electrochemist, engineer, and inventor. Collection material in English. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011057 Acheson, Edward Goodrich, 1887-1962 Correspondence. Acheson, George Wilson, 1892- Correspondence. Acheson, John Huyler, 1893-1938 Correspondence. Acheson, Raymond Mahler, 1888- Correspondence. Deringer, John P. Correspondence. Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931 Correspondence. Hunt, Alfred E. (Alfred Ephraim), 1855-1899 Correspondence. Huyler, John Seys, 1846-1910 Correspondence. Mellon, Andrew W. (Andrew William), 1855-1937 Correspondence. Nichols, E. L. (Edward Leamington), 1854-1937 Correspondence. Rathenau, Walther, 1867-1922 Correspondence. Smith, William Acheson Correspondence. Sprague, Edmund C. Correspondence. Szymanowitz, Raymond, 1898- Bakewell & Bakewell Correspondence. Carborundum Company (Niagara Falls, N.Y.) Cowles Electric Smelting and Aluminum Company Correspondence. Electrochemical Society Correspondence. Chemistry. Electrochemistry. Inventions. Electrochemists. itoamc Engineers. itoamc Inventors. itoamc Acheson, Edward Goodrich, 1856-1931. 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. 1910 Finding aid http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011057 Finding aid (PDF) http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011057.3 39312 39312