Eastham, Melville 1885-1964 creator mixed material monographic eng 5,800 32 12.8 Correspondence, diaries, notebooks, reports, company files, clippings, printed matter, blueprints, plans, sketches, photographs, and other papers relating chiefly to Eastham's career as radio engineer and as head of the General Radio Company. Includes files pertaining to long-range navigation and the Loran project at Massachusetts Institute of Technology Radiation Laboratory. Also documents his avocation of collecting sixteenth- and seventeenth-century maps and atlases. Correspondents include Fred S. Barton, Cedric M. Benham, Ralph Bown, Vannevar Bush, Trevor Clark, K.T. Compton, James Bryant Conant, George Friedrichs, Nicole Friedrichs, Charles S. Grover, Alfred L. Loomis, Claude Lyons, Henry S. Mears, William P. Murphy, Marie E. Schaefer, and Henry Southworth Shaw. Open to research. Maps transferred to Library of Congress Geography and Map Division. Radio engineer and manufacturer. Collection material in English. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011211 Barton, Fred S Correspondence Benham, Cedric M Correspondence Bown, Ralph Correspondence Bush, Vannevar 1890-1974 Correspondence Clark, Trevor Correspondence Compton, K. T. (Karl Taylor) 1887-1954 Correspondence Conant, James Bryant 1893-1978 Correspondence Friedrichs, George Correspondence Friedrichs, Nicole Correspondence Grover, Charles S Correspondence Loomis, Alfred L. (Alfred Lee) 1887-1975 Correspondence Lyons, Claude Correspondence Mears, Henry S Correspondence Murphy, William P 1923- Correspondence Schaefer, Marie E Correspondence Shaw, Henry Southworth Correspondence General Radio Company. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Radiation Laboratory. Atlases Collectors and collecting Maps Collectors and collecting Radar Radio Navigation Loran Engineers Manufacturers mm 82052381 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms011211 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms011211.3 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011211 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011211.3 Open to research. DLC 821109 20260227111715.0 mm 82052381