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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
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1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Demonstration lectures at Oxford: Keill and Desaguliers: conference paper and essay
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Manuscripts
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
Copy of a 12-page conference paper written and presented by Donald deB. Beaver at the 13th Annual Meeting of the Midwest Junto [for the History of Science], April 12, 1969. Also includes a one-page typed letter to Bernd Dibner dated May 5, 1969, enclosing the paper and inquiring about materials on Edward Bissell Hunt in the Burndy Library.
mssHM 83066
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Copy of a 26-page typescript for a conference paper written and delivered by Thomas Parke Hughes at the New York Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1960, accompanied by an abstract, conference agenda, and letter from Hughes to Bern Dibner dated 1960, December 6, noting that Dibner was to be the session's commentator.
mssHM 83031-83032
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This paper, which Everitt delivered at the Washington meeting of the History of Science Society in December 1969, deals with Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell and British scientist Michael Faraday. It is accompanied by a letter by Everitt to Bern Dibner gifting him the copy of the paper.
mssHM 80259
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The paper by Morris D. Hooven was delivered at the Symposium on the Role of the Organized Profession, Centennial of Engineering, 1952, September 3, in Chicago, Illinois. Also includes typed letter from Hooven to Bern Dibner dated 1954, February 16, enclosing the typescript and praising Dibner's contributions to the history of engineering.
mssHM 83084
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Copy of translation of Hans Christian Ørsted's autobiography sent by Robert C. Stauffer, an associate professor in the Department of the History of Science at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, to Bern Dibner. The translation, which is heavily marked up, is by Martha Trytten. Also includes a copy of a one-page undated letter from Trytten to Stauffer regarding the translation, and a one-page cover letter from Stauffer, who had initially requested the translation, to Bern Dibner, dated 1965, August 24.
mssHM 83087
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In this two-page letter to Dibner, Paynter comments on Dibner's recent series of articles published in the journal Electrical engineering. Paynter asks for Dibner's "interest and support in another project" involving the "origin and development of the now commonplace electric circuit symbols." The copies of his notes are for Paynter's class at MIT, "Analysis and design of engineering systems" (course 2.751). This is an incomplete copy.
mssHM 75974