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    <title>John Hays Hammond papers, 1908-1965 (bulk 1912-1953)</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Hammond, John Hays</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1888-1965</namePart>
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  <abstract>Correspondence, notebooks, technical papers, legal briefs, chronologies, printed matter, sketches, annotated photographs, and other papers relating to Hammond's scientific career and inventions.  Subjects include Hammond's basic experiments in radio control, frequency modulation, intermediate frequency, triode electron tube, and the Elmer Ambrose Sperry dispute on inertial guidance patents.  Correspondents include Ernst Fredrik Werner Alexanderson, Alexander Graham Bell, Lee De Forest, Irving Langmuir, and Nikola Tesla.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Inventor and scientist.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
  <note xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010036.">Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010036.</note>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Alexanderson, Ernst Fredrik Werner</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1878-1975</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Bell, Alexander Graham</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1847-1922</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>De Forest, Lee</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1873-1961</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Langmuir, Irving</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1881-1957</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Sperry, Elmer Ambrose</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1860-1930</namePart>
    </name>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Tesla, Nikola</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1856-1943</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Electron tubes</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Inertial navigation systems</topic>
    <topic>Patents</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Radio</topic>
    <topic>Research</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Radio frequency modulation</topic>
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    <occupation>Inventors</occupation>
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  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Scientists</occupation>
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