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Inventions.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:

Augustus Moore Herring papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1990
Abstract Transcripts of Herring-Curtiss Company vs. Glenn Curtiss et al., briefs, exhibits, correspondence, and other papers pertaining to this lawsuit, in which William Maloney was one of the principal trial lawyers, and to related litigation; incorporation papers, minutes, resolutions, stock certificates, legal documents, correspondence, and other items (1909-1031) relating to the business affairs of the company; Augustus Herring's scrapbook (1896-1909) and notebook (ca. 1903-1910) dealing with his...
Dates: 1891-1931.

Bentley collection

 Collection — Manuscript box 24 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065244802]
Identifier: 553
Scope and content One certificate for patent rights for Erasmus Bennett's self-acting brake, July 19, 1866 for Jewett F. Bentley for 11 counties in Wisconsin; one letter from Erasmus Bennett to Jewett F. Bentley, Aug. 15, 1866; one blank share in Erasmus Bennett's self-acting brake; one photograph of Cornell women students, 1890; a manuscript address by Andrew Dickson White on Robert Richardson, sculptor, Munich, May 21, 1889; and a manuscript address by Goldwin Smith about Oxford University, England, about...
Dates: 1866-1891.

Emmet Horton papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1801
Scope and content Correspondence, bills and accounts, contracts and other legal documents, inventories, reports, specifications and drawings, American and foreign patent papers, and related items, Horton's papers deal largely with the patenting, manufacture, and sale of his inventions, which include a clapboard gauge, a reaper and binder, a berry harvester, a combined hammer and nail feeder, and a basket-making machine; the bulk, which pertains to the perfection of the basket-making machine and the...
Dates: 1870-1932.

Harrie E. Greene tape recordings

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1817
Scope and content

Taped reminiscences of fourteen years of employment (1915-1929) in the office and shop with Glenn Curtiss, inventor and aviator. Interview conducted by Lois O'Connor and Edith Fox.

Dates: 1957.

Joel Farnham papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 119
Scope and content

Two patents, and a letter from James Clinton. Patents are for a horizontal reacting water wheel, and a machine for grating or grinding apples for the cider press.

Dates: 1808-1825.

William H. Baker Collection of Glass Plate Negatives.

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 6946 GPN
Abstract Collection contains U.S. patents, 1906-1949, including dams and hydroelectric power transmission, and loom parts and mechanisms; Canadian patents and assignments, 1900-1914; a patent application file, 1893-1894, 1932-1948, predominately for loom parts and mechanisms; reprints of Baker patents, 1899-1937; and information concerning a patent infringement suit, ca. 1927, between Baker and Crompton & Knowles. Also contains correspondence, 1931-1945, with U.S. and foreign patent offices,...
Dates: undated

William H. Baker Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 6946