Melville Eastham papers, 1908-1973 (bulk 1930-1964).
Material type:
Mixed materialsDescription: 5,800 items; 32 containers; 12.8 linear feetSubject(s): - 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
Open to research.
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.
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
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