Manuscripts
Series II. First Day Covers
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Dibner Autographed Documents and First Day Covers collection
Manuscripts
This collection contains 74 items, chiefly documents including letters, postcards, typescripts, photographs, handwritten notes, and blank cards, autographed by leading figures in the sciences, including multiple Nobel Prize winners; several documents contain multiple signatures. The collection also includes autographed 20 first day covers, mostly stamps dedicated to science-related themes such as nuclear energy, communications, electronics, space exploration, and naval aviation; dates of these items range from 1948-1973. Signatures on various types of documents include those of British explorer John Franklin (1786-1847); Joseph Henry (1797-1878), first secretary of the Smithsonian Institution; American medical physicist Rosalyn S. Yalow (1921-2011); American medical researcher Albert B. Sabin (1906-1993); polar explorer Ernest Shackleton (1874-1922); and American president Herbert Hoover (1874-1964). Many of the autographed letters are addressed to R. Frederick Allen of Lewiston, Maine, often in response to birthday greetings or other communications from Allen, and several autographed items are accompanied by information about the signers in the form of clippings or typed or handwritten annotations. The first day covers commemorate developments and events including the Atoms for Peace campaign (initiated in 1953) and the Atomic Energy Act (1962); the launch of Echo I, the world's first communications satellite, in 1960; the dedication of the Palomar Mountain Observatory, Palomar Mountain, California, in 1948; and various other innovations and innovators. Signatures on first day covers include those of Edward Teller (1908-2003), on Atoms for Peace covers; Wernher von Braun (1912-1977), on a cover featuring Echo I (1960); J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967), on a cover marking the Atomic Energy Act (1962); Jonas Salk (1914-1995), on a cover honoring those battling polio (1957); and Donald W. Douglas (1892-1981), on two covers celebrating the 50th anniversary of naval aviation (1961).
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Manuscripts
This collection contains 74 items, chiefly documents including letters, postcards, typescripts, photographs, handwritten notes, and blank cards, autographed by leading figures in the sciences, including multiple Nobel Prize winners; several documents contain multiple signatures. The collection also includes autographed 20 first day covers, mostly stamps dedicated to science-related themes such as nuclear energy, communications, electronics, space exploration, and naval aviation; dates of these items range from 1948-1973. Signatures on various types of documents include those of British explorer John Franklin (1786-1847); Joseph Henry (1797-1878), first secretary of the Smithsonian Institution; American medical physicist Rosalyn S. Yalow (1921-2011); American medical researcher Albert B. Sabin (1906-1993); polar explorer Ernest Shackleton (1874-1922); and American president Herbert Hoover (1874-1964). Many of the autographed letters are addressed to R. Frederick Allen of Lewiston, Maine, often in response to birthday greetings or other communications from Allen, and several autographed items are accompanied by information about the signers in the form of clippings or typed or handwritten annotations. The first day covers commemorate developments and events including the Atoms for Peace campaign (initiated in 1953) and the Atomic Energy Act (1962); the launch of Echo I, the world's first communications satellite, in 1960; the dedication of the Palomar Mountain Observatory, Palomar Mountain, California, in 1948; and various other innovations and innovators. Signatures on first day covers include those of Edward Teller (1908-2003), on Atoms for Peace covers; Wernher von Braun (1912-1977), on a cover featuring Echo I (1960); J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967), on a cover marking the Atomic Energy Act (1962); Jonas Salk (1914-1995), on a cover honoring those battling polio (1957); and Donald W. Douglas (1892-1981), on two covers celebrating the 50th anniversary of naval aviation (1961).
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Atoms for Peace and Atomic Energy Act
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Includes first day covers for the Atoms for Peace campaign signed by Edward Teller and Lewis L. Strauss (1896-1974) (Items 55-56, 1955). Also includes an Atomic Energy Commission postcard commemorating James O'Brien McMahon (1903-1952) and featuring stamps for the Atoms for Peace campaign and the Atomic Energy Act, signed by several people, including Glenn T. Seaborg and Robert R. Wilson (1914-2000) (Item 57, 1962); and first day covers for the Atomic Energy Act signed by J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967), Glenn T. Seaborg, and Edward Teller (Items 58-60, 1962).
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Age: 50 yrs. After Hiroshima (NEI Video News release)
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Format of original: VHS (See DVD copy) Run time: 9:02 NEI video news release of a report examining the use of nuclear power following Eisenhower's "atoms for peace" speech. Focuses on the uses of atomic research for cancer treatment and as an energy source. Includes commentary from Hans Bethe (Manhattan Project) and Takeo Nakagawa (Science Ambassador for Japan).
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Atomic Power Policy Committee
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Contains Correspondence, Notes and Three Papers Regarding Nuclear Energy for Electric Utilities, "Statement of Alex Radin, General Manager, American Public Power Association, Before Joint Atomic Energy Committee, February 10, 1955", *Development and Utilization of Atomic Energy Under the Recent Legislation" by Wm. S. Peterson and "Report on Atomic Energy Act of 1954."
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Echo I satellite, Palomar Mountain Observatory, and other space initiatives
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Includes first day covers for the dedication of the Palomar Mountain Observatory, Palomar Mountain, California (1948), signed by Ira Sprague Bowen (1898-1973) (Item 61); for Echo I, Communications for Peace (1960), signed by Thomas Keith Glennan (1905-1995), James B. Fisk (1910-1981), and Wernher von Braun (1912-1977) (Items 62-64); and for the launch of the Ranger VII spacecraft to the moon (1964) signed by Harold C. Urey (Item 65). Also includes a first day cover commemorating the Apollo 15 mission and the Kennedy Space Center (1971) signed by Hermann Oberth (1894-1989) (Item 66); the stamps are affixed on a two-page typescript by Oberth entitled Moon Car.
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