Fessenden, Reginald A., Papers, PC.1140

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Fessenden, Reginald A., Papers, PC.1140

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Title
Fessenden, Reginald A., Papers
Call Number
PC.1140
Creator
Fessenden, Reginald K., 1866-1932
Date
1887-1935
Repository
State Archives of North Carolina

Collection Overview

Reginald Aubrey Fessenden (October 6, 1866-July 22, 1932) was an American inventor and physicist whose career was varied and colorful. Born in Quebec, Canada, he was educated in schools in Canada and the United States. After two years as principal of Whitney Institute in Bermuda, he went to New York to develop his scientific interest through practical experience. After a year's work as tester for Edison Machine Works, in 1887 he was made chief chemist of the Edison Laboratory at Orange, New Jersey. In 1890 he went to Pittsfield, Massachusetts, as chief electrician for the Westinghouse plant there. He was professor of electrical engineering at Purdue University, 1892, and at Western University of Pennsylvania, 1893-1899. Fessenden came to North Carolina in 1900 under the auspices of the United States Weather Bureau to conduct experiments in wireless telegraphy on Roanoke Island. His two years' work here attracted considerable publicity and corresponded in time with the experiments of the Wright Brothers in that locality.

In 1902 Fessenden formed the National Electric Signaling Company with Darwin S. Wolcott, patent attorney, and T. H. Given and Hay Walker, Jr., financial backers, the purpose of the company being to promote Fessenden's inventions. He left the company in 1911; and after years of litigation, lost his legal fight to gain the right to use his patents privately. It was reported that the company later sold these patents to Radio Corporation of America for three million dollars. Fessenden had many vigorous legal battles over his patent rights, the most outstanding case being that known as the "Combination Suit." In this dispute, Fessenden successfully brought a charge of illegal use of his patents against a combination of eight of the country's leading electrical companies.

Fessenden served as consulting engineer for the Submarine Signaling Company from 1910 until his death in 1932, and, also, for several promi- nent electrical companies at various times during that period. He was married to Helen May Trott in 1890, and they had one son, Reginald Kennelly Fessenden. The inventor died in Bermuda. His biography, Fessenden, Builder of Tomorrows, written by his wife, was published in 1940.

Fessenden's patents number over five hundred, mostly in the field of radio. He is recognized as the originator of the continuous wave principle in wireless transmission, and, also, as the inventor of the heterodyne system of reception. From his Brant Rock experimental station, Fessenden made the first known radio broadcast of speech and music on Christmas Eve, 1906. The same year, he established what was said to be the first two-way trans-Atlantic wireless telegraphic contact, between Brant Rock, Massachusetts, and Machrihanish, Scotland. Among his better known inventions in fields other than radio are the fathometer (or sonic depth finder for ships), the smoke cloud for tanks, the turbo-electric drive for battleships, the wireless compass, and various submarine signaling devices.

The inventor was the author of many scientific papers and was in demand as a lecturer. Several installments of his autobiography were published in Radio News, but the work was never completed. Having been intensely interested in the classics since college days, Fessenden devoted much time in the last years of his life to research in the field of mythological origins, and in 1923 published The Deluged Civilization of the Caucasus, a resume of the book he planned to write. He later published several additional chapters, and also wrote a number of news- paper articles on the subject.

In 1921 the Institute of Radio Engineers awarded its medal of honor to Fessenden. In 1922 he was given the John Scott Medal by the Advisory Committee of the City of Philadelphia for his invention of continuous wave telegraphy and telephony; and in 1929 he was the recipient of the Scientific American Medal for his inventions promoting safety at sea. On April 1, 1952, the Radio Pioneers Club presented its Hall of Fame Award to Fessenden, Dr. Christopher Crittenden accepting the award on behalf of the Fessenden National Memorial Association. The Club inaugurated its Hall of Fame series in 1950. Awards previous to Fessenden were made to Edison and Marconi.

Because of Reginald A. Fessenden's pioneer radio work on Roanoke Island in 1901-1902, the Department of Archives and History, at the suggestion of the Fessenden National Memorial Association, requested his son to deposit the inventor's papers in the Archives. This he agreed to do, and the papers were subsequently received in August, 1944.

Contents of the Collection

1. Fessenden Material Prior to 1905

Correspondence and Miscellaneous Material
167.1.1
Correspondence relative to Fessenden genealogy, 1887-1896
167.1.1.1
Correspondence, 1890
167.1.1.2
Correspondence, 1891
167.1.1.3
Correspondence, 1892
167.1.1.4
Correspondence, 1893
167.1.1.5
Correspondence, 1894
167.1.1.6
Correspondence, 1895
167.1.1.7
Correspondence, 1896
167.1.1.8
Correspondence, 1897
167.1.1.9
Correspondence, 1898
167.1.1.10
American Institute of Electrical Engineers, 1893-1894
167.1.1.11
National School of Electricity, 1894
167.1.1.12
Correspondence and Related Material
167.1.2
Correspondence, 1899
167.1.2.1
Correspondence, 1900
167.1.2.2
Correspondence, 1901
167.1.2.3
Correspondence, 1902
167.1.2.4
Professor A. E. Dolbear, Tufts College, 1899-1906
167.1.2.5
College Register, Class Record, Lectures, etc., 1890-1894
167.1.2.6
Purdue University Register, 1891-1893
167.1.2.6.1
Fessenden's teacher class record, 1892
167.1.2.6.2
Lecture on direct current
167.1.2.6.3
"Curves", 1890
167.1.2.6.4
The Western University Courant (periodical), December, 1894, 1894
167.1.2.6.5
Notebooks and Clippings
167.1.3
Observation record book of F. W. Very, US Weather Bureau Station, Cobb Island, Rock Point, Charles County, MD, 1900-1902
167.1.3.1
Notes relating to wireless telegraphy, 1900-1902
167.1.3.2
Newspaper and magazine clippings, 1899-1903
167.1.3.3

2. Miscellaneous Correspondence after 1905

Correspondence and Miscellaneous Material
167.2.1
References and endorsements, 1908-1922
167.2.1.1
Information given, 1910-1922
167.2.1.2
Information requested by Fessenden, 1909-1930
167.2.1.3
Advertising, 1911-1930
167.2.1.4
Social correspondence, 1906-1926
167.2.1.5

3. Papers of Corporations With Which Fessenden Was Associated

American Telephone and Telegraph Company-General Electric Company
167.3.1
American Telephone and Telegraph Company: G. C. Campbell, 1910-1913
167.3.1.1
American Telephone and Telegraph Company: General, 1917-1927
167.3.1.2
American Telephone and Telegraph Company: Vail and Carty, 1907-1917
167.3.1.3
Atlantic and Pacific Radio Corporation: General, 1916-1924
167.3.1.4
Atlantic Communication Company: Knight Brothers, 1915-1920
167.3.1.5
Atlantic Communication Company: Dr. K. G. Frank, 1915-1922
167.3.1.6
General Electric Company: General, 1915-1917
167.3.1.7
General Electric Company: General, 1918-1930
167.3.1.8
General Electric Company: Patent Department, 1905-1910
167.3.1.9
General Electric Company: Generation and storage of power from natural sources, 1909
167.3.1.10
General Electric Company: Power storage and coal dust engine data and correspondence, 1911
167.3.1.11
General Electric Company: Albert G. Davis, 1924-1928
167.3.1.12
General Electric Company: Selected letters returned from office of Hurlburt, Jones, and Hall, 1917-1925
167.3.1.13
General Electric Company: Electric ship propulsion, 1909-1926
167.3.1.14
Fessenden Engineering Laboratory-National Electric Signaling Company
167.3.2
Fessenden Engineering Laboratory: Applications, 1917
167.3.2.1
Fessenden Engineering Laboratory: Office correspondence, 1917-1920
167.3.2.2
Fessenden Engineering Laboratory: Routine of work
167.3.2.3
Fessenden Engineering Laboratory: To officers and shareholders, 1920
167.3.2.4
Fessenden Engineering Laboratory: Engineers' Contracts, 1920
167.3.2.5
Fessenden Engineering Laboratory: General, 1917-1920
167.3.2.6
Fessenden Engineering Laboratory: Financial statements, 1920
167.3.2.7
Fessenden Engineering Laboratory: Reports, 1920
167.3.2.8
Geophysical Corporation: Hurlburt, Jones, and Hall, 1927-1933
167.3.2.9
Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company: John Bottomley, 1902-1917
167.3.2.10
Mechanical Transfer Car Corporation: General
167.3.2.11
National Electric Signaling Company: Hay Walker, President, 1903-1904
167.3.2.12
National Electric Signaling Company: Hay Walker, President, 1904
167.3.2.13
National Electric Signaling Company: Hay Walker, President, 1905
167.3.2.14
National Electric Signaling Company: Hay Walker, President, 1905
167.3.2.15
National Electric Signaling Company
167.3.3
Hay Walker, President, 1906
167.3.3.1
Hay Walker, President, 1906
167.3.3.2
Hay Walker, President, 1907
167.3.3.3
Hay Walker, President, 1907
167.3.3.4
Hay Walker, President, 1908
167.3.3.5
Hay Walker, President, 1909
167.3.3.6
Hay Walker, President, 1926
167.3.3.7
A. E. Braun, Secretary-Treasurer, 1905
167.3.3.8
A. E. Braun, Secretary-Treasurer, 1906
167.3.3.9
National Electric Signaling Company
167.3.4
A. E. Braun, Secretary-Treasurer, 1906
167.3.4.1
A. E. Braun, Secretary-Treasurer, 1907
167.3.4.2
A. E. Braun, Secretary-Treasurer, 1907
167.3.4.3
A. E. Braun, Secretary-Treasurer, 1908
167.3.4.4
A. E. Braun, Secretary-Treasurer, 1908
167.3.4.5
A. E. Braun, Secretary-Treasurer, 1909
167.3.4.6
A. E. Braun, Secretary-Treasurer, 1909
167.3.4.7
National Electric Signaling Company
167.3.5
A. E. Braun, Secretary-Treasurer, 1909-1910
167.3.5.1
A. E. Braun, Secretary-Treasurer, 1910
167.3.5.2
A. E. Braun, Secretary-Treasurer, 1910
167.3.5.3
John V. L. Hogan, 1910-1914
167.3.5.4
T. H. Given, 1903-1904
167.3.5.5
T. H. Given, 1905
167.3.5.6
T. H. Given, 1906
167.3.5.7
T. H. Given, 1907
167.3.5.8
T. H. Given, 1909
167.3.5.9
Fessenden and Brant Rock staff, 1906-1908
167.3.5.10
Fessenden and Brant Rock staff, 1909
167.3.5.11
Fessenden and Brant Rock staff, 1910
167.3.5.12
National Electric Signaling Company
167.3.6
Fessenden and Brant Rock staff, 1910
167.3.6.1
Selected letters, Given and Walker, 1903-1904
167.3.6.2
Selected letters, Given and Walker, 1905-1906
167.3.6.3
Selected letters, Given and Walker, 1907-1908
167.3.6.4
Selected letters, Given and Walker, 1909
167.3.6.5
Data relative to files
167.3.6.6
Fessenden's dismissal, 1910-1911
167.3.6.7
Notebooks-sketches and drawings, 1904-1905
167.3.6.8
National Electric Signaling Company
167.3.7
Experiments-notes and sketches, 1906-1909
167.3.7.1
Operating Department reports, 1910
167.3.7.2
National Electric Signaling Company
167.3.8
Operating Department, sending reports, 1907
167.3.8.1
Newspaper clippings, 1905-1908
167.3.8.2
National Electric Signaling Company
167.3.9
Newspaper clippings, 1908-1909
167.3.9.1
Photographs
167.3.9.2
National Electric Signaling Company, 1905-1906
167.3.10
National Electric Signaling Company: "Instruction Book," Machrihanish Station, Scotland, 1905-1906
167.3.11
Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company-Submarine Signaling Corporation
167.3.12
Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company: General, 1901
167.3.12.1
Queen and Company: General, 1909-1929
167.3.12.2
Radio Corporation of America: Correspondence, 1921-1928
167.3.12.3
Radio Corporation of America: Publications and reports, 1922-1925
167.3.12.4
Republic Steel Corporation: General, 1930-1931
167.3.12.5
Submarine Signaling Corporation: R. F. Blake, Assistant to the President, 1917-1920
167.3.12.6
Submarine Signaling Corporation: T. R. Madden, Vice President, 1918
167.3.12.7
Submarine Signaling Corporation: Frederic Parker, President, 1918
167.3.12.8
Submarine Signaling Corporation: F. K. Tappan, Secretary-Treasurer, 1918-1919
167.3.12.9
Submarine Signaling Corporation: F. K. Tappan, Secretary-Treasurer, 1919
167.3.12.10
Submarine Signaling Corporation: T. R. Madden, Vice President, 1919
167.3.12.11
Submarine Signaling Corporation: Gordon Dexter, President, 1919
167.3.12.12
Submarine Signaling Corporation
167.3.13
R. F. Blake, Assistant to the President, 1919
167.3.13.1
R. M. Tappan, Secretary-Treasurer, 1920
167.3.13.2
T. R. Madden, Vice President, 1920
167.3.13.3
Gordon Dexter, President, 1920
167.3.13.4
F. Minden Cole, Canadian Agency, 1918-1919
167.3.13.5
Annual statements, etc., 1919-1933
167.3.13.6
P. H. Coleman, Assistant Secretary, 1917-1920
167.3.13.7
Directors' meetings, 1912-1915
167.3.13.8
Board of Directors, 1920
167.3.13.9
Major Higginson, 1914-1918
167.3.13.10
Data
167.3.13.11
Contracts
167.3.13.12
Judge Lowell's decision-fathometer suit, 1926
167.3.13.13
Memoranda, 1917-1920
167.3.13.14
Patent Committee Reports, 1917-1920
167.3.13.15
Submarine Signaling Corporation
167.3.14
Tests, 1918
167.3.14.1
Tests-Memo, 1907-1920
167.3.14.2
Catalogues and literature, 1912-1932
167.3.14.3
Pictures, photographs, etc.
167.3.14.4
Correspondence, 1912-1923
167.3.14.5
Correspondence, 1924-1933
167.3.14.6
General, 1912
167.3.14.7
Submarine Signaling Corporation
167.3.15
General, 1913-1919
167.3.15.1
Professor Fessenden's mail, 1914
167.3.15.2
Contents of Fessenden's desk, 1914
167.3.15.3
Miscellaneous, 1913-1925
167.3.15.4
G. E. M. Bertram, Engineer, 1919
167.3.15.5
Submarine Signaling Corporation
167.3.16
C. F. Cairns, Engineer, 1917-1919
167.3.16.1
H. J. W. Fay, 2nd Vice President, 1917-1920
167.3.16.2
Richard Fay, Engineer, 1917-1919
167.3.16.3
H. McB. Parker, Production Engineer, 1919
167.3.16.4
H. McB. Parker, Production Engineer, 1920
167.3.16.5
A. E. Hart, Engineer, 1915-1919
167.3.16.6
H. V. Hayes, Engineer, 1917-1919
167.3.16.7
R. L. Williams, Engineer, 1916
167.3.16.8
R. L. Williams, Engineer, 1919-1920
167.3.16.9
E. C. Wood, Engineer, 1917-1919
167.3.16.10
War Department, 1918-1920
167.3.16.11
Bureau of Standards, 1917-1920
167.3.16.12
US Shipping Board, 1917-1920
167.3.16.13
Submarine Signaling Corporation
167.3.17
Submarine Board, Optical Office, 1919
167.3.17.1
Internal Revenue, 1918-1920
167.3.17.2
Inter-Department Radio Board, 1920
167.3.17.3
Government Printing Office, 1919
167.3.17.4
Bureau of Ordnance, 1918-1920
167.3.17.5
Department of Justice, 1919
167.3.17.6
Government Departments-General
167.3.17.7
National Research Council, 1918
167.3.17.8
Council of National Defense, 1917-1918
167.3.17.9
J. T. Tompkins, Naval Operations, 1918-1919
167.3.17.10
E. Stuart Tucker, Navy Yard, New York, 1920
167.3.17.11
Bureau of Construction and Repair, 1917-1919
167.3.17.12
Special Naval Board on submarine devices, 1917-1918
167.3.17.13
Report on anti-submarine work, Naval Experimental Station, 1918
167.3.17.14
Reports of Submarine Signaling Corporation, Volume I
167.3.17.15
Submarine Signaling Corporation-United Fruit Company
167.3.18
Reports of Submarine Signaling Corporation, Volume II
167.3.18.1
Takata Company: General, 1924
167.3.18.2
United Fruit Company: General, 1910-1922
167.3.18.3

4. Correspondence and Data Regarding United States Government

Bureau of Aircraft Production-Navy Department
167.4.1
Bureau of aircraft production, 1918-1919
167.4.1.1
Department of Justice, 1919-1920
167.4.1.2
Fuel Administration, Bureau of Conservation, 1918
167.4.1.3
Federal Radio Commission, 1926-1930
167.4.1.4
Treasury Department, Coast Guard, 1915-1922
167.4.1.5
President, 1913-1928
167.4.1.6
Senate, 1906-1928
167.4.1.7
War Department, 1914-1925
167.4.1.8
Bureau of Standards, 1906-1931
167.4.1.9
Coast Artillery, 1915-1920
167.4.1.10
Shipping Board, 1915-1917
167.4.1.11
Bureau of Lighthouses, 1917-1918
167.4.1.12
Navy Department: General, 1911-1918
167.4.1.13
Navy Department Naval Office-Fessenden personal
167.4.2
Navy Department: General, 1919
167.4.2.1
Navy Department: General, 1924-1931
167.4.2.2
Navy Department: Submarine Board, 1917-1919
167.4.2.3
Navy Department: Priority Orders, 1918
167.4.2.4
Navy Department: W. P. Beehler, 1918-1919
167.4.2.5
Navy Department: B. C. Decker, 1917-1919
167.4.2.6
Navy Department: J. R. Defrees, 1918-1919
167.4.2.7
Navy Department: M. A. Libbey, 1917
167.4.2.8
Navy Department: General, 1918
167.4.2.9
Naval Offices: Admiral A. W. Grant, Commander of Submarine Force, Atlantic Fleet, 1917
167.4.2.10
Naval Office: C. S. McDowell, Special Board, Naval Experimental Station, 1917-1918
167.4.2.11
Naval Office: C. S. Gillette, Machinery Division, New York Navy Yard, 1920
167.4.2.12
Naval Office: Commander Beehler, Machinery Division, New York Navy Yard, 1920
167.4.2.13
Naval Office: Charlestown, Massachussetts Navy Yard, 1917-1919
167.4.2.14
Naval Office: Admiral Benson, Naval Operations, 1917-1918
167.4.2.15
Naval Office: Naval Consulting Board, 1917-1918
167.4.2.16
Naval Office: Radio-Telegraphic Laboratory, 1911-1917
167.4.2.17
Naval Office: Selected Letters, Fessenden v. Radio Trust, 1924-1928
167.4.2.18
Naval Office: Bureau of Steam Engineering, 1917-1920
167.4.2.19
Naval Office: G. K. Calhoun, 1917-1918
167.4.2.20
Naval Office: Admiral Griffin, 1917-1920
167.4.2.21
Naval Office: S. C. Hooper, 1917-1922
167.4.2.22
Naval Office: R. H. Leigh, 1917-1918
167.4.2.23
Naval Office: Turbo-electric drive, 1908-1919
167.4.2.24
Fessenden personal, 1913-1918
167.4.2.25

5. Correspondence and Data Regarding Foreign Governments

Foreign Government Correspondence
167.5.1
Imperial Japanese Government, 1917-1920
167.5.1.1
Italian Embassy and Military Commission, 1918
167.5.1.2
Canadian Government, 1912-1915
167.5.1.3
Russian Government, 1915-1932
167.5.1.4
British Admiralty, Lieutenant H. Babington, 1918-1919
167.5.1.5
British Admiralty and Embassy, Commander Gaunt, 1917
167.5.1.6
British Consulates and Embassy, 1914-1926
167.5.1.7
British Government: Air inventions committee, 1918
167.5.1.8
British Government: Board of Invention and Research, 1917-1919
167.5.1.9
British Government: Ministry of Munitions, 1915-1918
167.5.1.10
British Government: General Post Office, Sir Matthew Nathan, 1910-1916
167.5.1.11
British Government: War Office, 1914-1921
167.5.1.12
British Government: Fessenden memorandum, military and naval methods and apparatus, 1915-1918
167.5.1.13
British Government: Development of special munitions, 1915
167.5.1.14
Great Britain: Rifle and machine gun sights, 1914
167.5.1.15
Great Britain: Aircraft in mass, 1914
167.5.1.16
Great Britain: Aeroplane engines, 1914-1915
167.5.1.17
Great Britain: Location of concealed artillery, 1914
167.5.1.18

6. Inventions

Miscellaneous Materials Relating to Inventions
167.6.1
List of inventions, etc.
167.6.1.1
Newspaper clippings, 1902-1929
167.6.1.2
Newspaper clippings
167.6.1.3
Miscellaneous Materials Relating to Inventions
167.6.2
Pictures of equipment, etc.
167.6.2.1
Two notebooks entitled, "Sending Station," and "Receiving Station"
167.6.2.2
New method of agricultural engineering, Herbert Smith, 1929
167.6.2.3
Agricultural Engineering, Newspaper clippings, 1921
167.6.2.4
New method of book publishing, 1921
167.6.2.5
Engine, 1912-1919
167.6.2.6
Echo sounder, clippings, 1925-1928
167.6.2.7
Electric heating, 1922-1923
167.6.2.8
Eliminating bubbles from steel ingots, 1930
167.6.2.9
Miscellaneous Materials Relating to Inventions
167.6.3
Fathometer: data, photos, and clippings, 1921-1930
167.6.3.1
Radio compass, 1911-1928
167.6.3.2
Height indicator, 1925-1930
167.6.3.3
Hot wire anomometer, 1919
167.6.3.4
Loud speaker: Patent infringements, 1907-1927
167.6.3.5
Loud speaker: George K. Woodworth, Attorney, 1924-1925
167.6.3.6
Loud speaker: Roehm and Adsit, Attorney Fischer, 1926
167.6.3.7
Loud speaker: Charles Messer Stow and others, 1924
167.6.3.8
Loud speaker: Clippings, 1921-1924
167.6.3.9
Loud speaker: Clippings, 1925-1926
167.6.3.10
Loud speaker: Clippings, 1927-1928
167.6.3.11
Loud speaker: Trade circulars, State of the Art
167.6.3.12
Loud speaker: Large diaphragm, 1929
167.6.3.13
Mechanical and electrical garage parking systems, 1919
167.6.3.14
Ore location: General, 1922-1932
167.6.3.15
Ore location: Fessenden patents, 1919
167.6.3.16
Miscellaneous Material Relating to Inventions
167.6.4
Ore location: Patent data, 1926-1934
167.6.4.1
Ore location: "The Oil and Gas Journal" March 25, 1926
167.6.4.2
Ore location: Fessenden memoranda, 1926
167.6.4.3
Ore location: Kenyon and Kenyon, 1926-1930
167.6.4.4
Ore location: Geophysical Research Corporation, 1926-1931
167.6.4.5
Ore location: Geophysical Research Corporation; Minthrop patent
167.6.4.6
Ore location: Hurlburt, Jones, and Hall, 1926-1933
167.6.4.7
Oscillator, 1907-1915
167.6.4.8
Power storage, 1912-1924
167.6.4.9
Prism reflector test, 1921-1922
167.6.4.10
Short Wave Patent: Infringements
167.6.4.11
Miscellaneous Materials Relating to Inventions
167.6.5
Short Wave Patent: Material relative to, 1920-1930
167.6.5.1
Short Wave Patent: Wireless transmission and reception, 1926
167.6.5.2
Short Wave Patent: Radio telephone and secrecy sending, clippings, 1902-1928
167.6.5.3
Short Wave Patent: Photo album of wireless telegraphy apparatus and instruments
167.6.5.4
Short Wave Patent: Scrapbook of clippings relative to wireless
167.6.5.5
Tea infusers: Marcus May: Wright, Brown, Quimby and May, 1925
167.6.5.6
Tea infusers: General, 1923-1929
167.6.5.7
Tea infusers: H. F. Sahlin, 1922-1925
167.6.5.8
Tea infusers: John Koren, 1922
167.6.5.9
Tea infusers: Peter Gray and Sons, 1922-1925
167.6.5.10
Tea infusers: Atlas Machine Company, 1921-1922
167.6.5.11
Tea infusers: Aluminum Company of America, 1921-1927
167.6.5.12
Miscellaneous Material Relating to Inventions
167.6.6
Tea infusers: Data
167.6.6.1
Tea infusers: Patent information, etc., 1925-1927
167.6.6.2
Television: Clippings, 1924-1925
167.6.6.3
Television: Clippings, 1926
167.6.6.4
Television: Clippings, 1927
167.6.6.5
Television: Clippings, 1928
167.6.6.6
Television: Clippings, 1929-1930
167.6.6.7
Turbo-electric drive, 1908-1928
167.6.6.8
Bendix Aviation Corporation, 1930
167.6.6.9
Electric ship propulsion-clippings, 1926
167.6.6.10
Blueprints
167.6.7
Blueprints
167.6.8
Blueprints
167.6.9
Blueprints
167.6.10
Blueprints
167.6.11
Blueprints
167.6.12
Blueprints
167.6.13
Blueprints
167.6.14

7. Patent Materials

Patent Office; Clippings; Patent Attorneys
167.7.1
Patent Office, 1911-1920
167.7.1.1
Patent Office, 1921-1927
167.7.1.2
Clippings, 1924-1933
167.7.1.3
Patent Attorneys: Christy and Christy, Darwin S. Wolcott, 1901
167.7.1.4
Patent Attorneys: Christy and Christy, Darwin S. Wolcott, 1902
167.7.1.5
Patent Attorneys: Christy and Christy, Darwin S. Wolcott, 1903
167.7.1.6
Patent Attorneys: Christy and Christy, Darwin S. Wolcott, 1903
167.7.1.7
Patent Attorneys: Christy and Christy, Darwin S. Wolcott, 1904-1908
167.7.2
Patent Attorneys: F. W. H. Clay, 1907
167.7.3
Patent Attorneys: F. W. H. Clay, 1907-1908
167.7.4
Patent Attorneys
167.7.5
F. W. H. Clay, 1909
167.7.5.1
F. W. H. Clay, 1909
167.7.5.2
F. W. H. Clay, 1909
167.7.5.3
F. W. H. Clay, 1910-1911
167.7.5.4
F. W. H. Clay, 1912-1913
167.7.5.5
Abel and Imray, 1910-1913
167.7.5.6
Lyman and Fish-Jones, 1926
167.7.5.7
Patent Files: Patents #777,014-#916,428
167.7.6
Patent Files: Cards showing cross index between patent numbers and serial numbers
167.7.6.1
Patent 777,014 - transmitting and receiving signals
167.7.6.2
Patent 793,647 - cable condenser
167.7.6.3
Patent 793,648 -- receiver for electro-magnetic waves
167.7.6.4
Patent 793,649 - wireless telephone
167.7.6.5
Patent 793,650 - wireless telephone
167.7.6.6
Patent 793,651 - aerial for wireless signaling
167.7.6.7
Patent 793,652 - aerial
167.7.6.8
Patent 793,718 - water aerial
167.7.6.9
Patent 793,777 - condenser capacity A
167.7.6.10
Patent 814,951 - condenser capacity A
167.7.6.11
Patent 846,081 - receiver
167.7.6.12
Patent 897,278 - wireless telegraphy
167.7.6.13
Patent 897,279 - generation of high frequency oscillations
167.7.6.14
Patent 915,280 - electric signaling
167.7.6.15
Patent 916,428 - improvements in receivers
167.7.6.16
Patents #916,429-#938,836
167.7.7
Patent 916,429 - receiver
167.7.7.1
Patent 917,574 - detecting device for wireless telegraphy
167.7.7.2
Patent 918,306 - method of wireless signaling
167.7.7.3
Patent 918,307 - apparatus for wireless signaling
167.7.7.4
Patent 921,531 - receiver for electro-magnetic waves
167.7.7.5
Patent 923,962 - receiving and transmitting signals on same antenna
167.7.7.6
Patent 923,963 - method of generating high frequency oscillations
167.7.7.7
Patent 928,371 - selective signaling apparatus
167.7.7.8
Patent 932,111 - capacity changer
167.7.7.9
Patent 932,112 - lighting arresters
167.7.7.10
Patent 938,836 - methods for cleaning guns
167.7.7.11
Patents #941,565-#979,145
167.7.8
Patent 941,565 - method for determining positions of vessels
167.7.8.1
Patent 941,565 - determining position of vessels
167.7.8.2
Patent 948,068 - wireless telegraphy, steel tower
167.7.8.3
Patent 956,489 - sending conductors
167.7.8.4
Patent 960,631 - wireless signaling
167.7.8.5
Patent 962,014 - wireless recorder
167.7.8.6
Patent 962,015 - receiver for electric signaling
167.7.8.7
Patent 962,016 - self-exciting liquid barretter
167.7.8.8
Patent 962, 017 - current-operated devices
167.7.8.9
Patent 962,018 - method of inverting signaling
167.7.8.10
Patnet 962,417 - electrical receiving apparatus
167.7.8.11
Patent 974,762 - wireless telegraphy
167.7.8.12
Patent 979,144 - transmission and receipt of electrical energy
167.7.8.13
Patent 979,145 - improvements in electric signaling
167.7.8.14
Patents #981,406-#1,019,236
167.7.9
Patent 981,406 - multiplex telegraphy
167.7.9.1
Patent 998,567 - antenna for wireless signaling
167.7.9.2
Patent 1,002,049 - signaling by electro-magnetic waves
167.7.9.3
Patent 1,002,050 - receivers for signaling
167.7.9.4
Patent 1.002.051 - signaling by electro-magnetic wave
167.7.9.5
Patent 1,002,052 - improvements in electric signaling
167.7.9.6
Patent 1,002,141 - determining position of ships
167.7.9.7
Patent 1,015,881 - transmission of writings, sounds and pictures
167.7.9.8
Patent 1,019,236 - atmospheric booth for elimination of electrostatic in signaling
167.7.9.9
Patents #1,020,032-#1,050,441
167.7.10
Patent 1,020,032 - wireless telegraphy
167.7.10.1
Patent 1,022,539 - receiver for electro-magnetic waves
167.7.10.2
Patent 1,022,540 - wireless signaling
167.7.10.3
Patent 1,0222,584 - method of determining frequency of periodic impulses
167.7.10.4
Patent 1,035,334 - improvement in wireless telegraphy
167.7.10.5
Patent 1,042,778 - receiver for electro-magnetic waves
167.7.10.6
Patent 1,044,637 - receiver for electro-magnetic waves
167.7.10.7
Patent 1,045,781 - wireless telegraphy
167.7.10.8
Patent 1,045,782 - wireless telegraphy
167.7.10.9
Patent 1,048,670 - relay patent
167.7.10.10
Patent 1,050,441 - puller-in, for receiving signals
167.7.10.11
Patents #1,050,728-#1,121,722
167.7.11
Patent 1,050,728 - signaling
167.7.11.1
Patent 1,059,665 - wireless telegraphy
167.7.11.2
Patent 1,059,666 - improvement in preventing interference with receipt of telegraphic signals
167.7.11.3
Patent 1,074,423 - wireless signaling
167.7.11.4
Patent 1,074,424 - wireless telegraphy
167.7.11.5
Patent 1,080,271 - signaling
167.7.11.6
Patent 1,101,895 - signaling by sound and other longitudinal elastic impulses
167.7.11.7
Patent 1,101,914 - Fessenden antenna
167.7.11.8
Patent 1,101,915 - horizontal aerial
167.7.11.9
Patent 1,112,441 - system of storing power
167.7.11.10
Patent 1,114,975 - storage of wheeled vehicles
167.7.11.11
Patent 1,121,722 - agricultural engineering
167.7.11.12
Patents #1,126,966-#1,154,750
167.7.12
Patent 1,126,966 - sending and receiving electro-magnetic waves
167.7.12.1
Patent 1,132,465 - apparatus for converting heat into work
167.7.12.2
Patent 1,132,568 - improvements in electric signaling
167.7.12.3
Patent 1,132,569 - improvements in wireless telegraphy
167.7.12.4
Patent 1,133,435 - method and apparatus for reproducing impulses
167.7.12.5
Patent 1,141,386 - wireless telegraphy by electro-magnetic waves
167.7.12.6
Patent 1,141,453 - wireless by electro-magnetic waves
167.7.12.7
Patent 1,147,010 - wireless telegraphy
167.7.12.8
Patent 1,154,750 - amplifying electrical impulses
167.7.12.9
Patents #1,156,677-#1,167,366
167.7.13
Patent 1,156,677 - multiple frequency aerial
167.7.13.1
Patent 1,157,094 - simultaneous transmitting and receiving
167.7.13.2
Patent 1,158,123 - generating and receiving electro-magnetic waves, diamond bridge arrangement
167.7.13.3
Patent 1,158,124 - aerial navigation
167.7.13.4
Patent 1,165,862 - high frequency generator
167.7.13.5
Patent 1,166,892 - apparatus for producing high frequency oscillations
167.7.13.6
Patent 1,166,893 - apparatus for producing high frequency oscillations
167.7.13.7
Patent 1,167,366 - oscillator
167.7.13.8
Patents #1,170,969-#1,184,843
167.7.14
Patent 1,170,969 - improvements in means of transmitting intelligence
167.7.14.1
Patent 1,172,017 - apparatus for wireless telegraphy
167.7.14.2
Patent 1,172,018 - electro-magnetic indicator
167.7.14.3
Patent 1,175,418 - improvements in wireless telegraphy
167.7.14.4
Patent 1,176,282 - group beats and group heterodyne
167.7.14.5
Patent 1,178,507 - wireless signaling call
167.7.14.6
Patent 1,179,906 - electric signaling
167.7.14.7
Patent 1,182,003 - generating electro-magnetic waves
167.7.14.8
Patent 1,182,843 - direction finding switch
167.7.14.9
Patent 1,184,843 - signaling by electro-magnetic waves
167.7.14.10
Patents #1,191,072-#1,240,328
167.7.15
Patent 1,191,072 - generating power
167.7.15.1
Patent 1,207,387 - clipping clutch oscillator
167.7.15.2
Patent 1,207,388 - signal selector
167.7.15.3
Patent 1,212,202 - submarine, subterranean and aerial telephony
167.7.15.4
Patent 1,213,176 - phonograph kinetoscopes
167.7.15.5
Patent 1,213,610 - dynamo electric machinery
167.7.15.6
Patent 1,214,531 - power generation
167.7.15.7
Patent 1,217,165 - power plants
167.7.15.8
Patent 1,217,585 - iceberg and sounding equipment
167.7.15.9
Patent 1,240,328 - methods and apparatus for locating ore bodies
167.7.15.10
Patents #1,247,520 - #1,265,766
167.7.16
Patent #1,247,520 - system for storing power
167.7.16.1
Patent #1,265,068 - condenser converter
167.7.16.2
Patent #1,265,766 - naval and military methods and apparatus
167.7.16.3
Patents #1,268,949 - #1,319,521
167.7.17
Patent #1,268,949 - methods and apparatus for agricultural engineering
167.7.17.1
Patent #1,270,398 - transmitting and receiving sound waves through the ground
167.7.17.2
Patent #1,277,562 - multiple diaphragm
167.7.17.3
Patent #1,291,458 - underwater apparatus
167.7.17.4
Patent #1,301,675 - heat insulation
167.7.17.5
Patent #1,311,157 - submarine signaling, recognition signaling
167.7.17.6
Patent #1,318,739 - pressure equalizing
167.7.17.7
Patent #1,319,740 - increased circulation
167.7.17.8
Patent #1,319,145 - detecting and locating ships
167.7.17.9
Patent #1,319,521 - eliminating undersea vibrations
167.7.17.10
Patents #1,331,907 - #1,348,856
167.7.18
Patent #1,331,907 - generating and utilizing power
167.7.18.1
Patent #1,341,795 - locating and destroying enemy gun positions
167.7.18.2
Patent #1,348,556 - apparatus for submarine signaling
167.7.18.3
Patent #1,348,825 - detecting low frequency impulses
167.7.18.4
Patent #1,348,826 - submarine signaling and detection
167.7.18.5
Patent #1,348,827 - submarine signaling
167.7.18.6
Patent #1,348,828 - bubble screen
167.7.18.7
Patent #1,348,855 - locating submarines
167.7.18.8
Patent #1,348,856 - directive signaling
167.7.18.9
Patents #1,355,598 - #1,394,482
167.7.19
Patent #1,355,598 - directive signaling
167.7.19.1
Patent #1,357,449 - artificial leather articles
167.7.19.2
Patent #1,374,293 - wireless direction finders
167.7.19.3
Patent #1,384,014 - signaling and utilizing radiant impulses
167.7.19.4
Patent #1,384,029 - sound signaling, channel finding
167.7.19.5
Patent #1,384,030 - destroying enemy gun positions
167.7.19.6
Patent #1,394,482 - double oscillator
167.7.19.7
Patents #1,394,483 - #1,473,179
167.7.20
Patent #1,394,483 - submarine signaling, sound shadow
167.7.20.1
Patent #1,397,949 - submarine signaling, screened oscillators in oil tank
167.7.20.2
Patent #1,397,950 - stop-clocks
167.7.20.3
Patent #1,414,077 - inspecting materials
167.7.20.4
Patent #1,415,539 - submarine signaling - compensator
167.7.20.5
Patent #1,429,497 - inductance capacity and amplifier
167.7.20.6
Patent #1,453,316 - acoustic methods and apparatus
167.7.20.7
Patent #1,472,558 - directional receiving of submarine signals - tubular sound screens
167.7.20.8
Patent #1,473,179 - eliminating undesired impulses
167.7.20.9
Patents #1,486,735 - #1,616,848
167.7.21
Patent #1,486,735 - distributive elastic wave receiver and microphone
167.7.21.1
Patent #1,497,366 - signaling
167.7.21.2
Patent #1,501,105 - condenser receiver
167.7.21.3
Patent #1,574,074 - channel pilots
167.7.21.4
Patent #1,576,735 - containers for infisionable materials
167.7.21.5
Patent #1,616,416 - co-ordinating radio and phonograph reproduction - generating and detecting impulses
167.7.21.6
Patent #1,616,848 - producing and reading books
167.7.21.7
Patents #1,636,502 - #1,853,119
167.7.22
Patent #1,636,502 - determining distance by echo
167.7.22.1
Patent #1,732,302 - producing reading books
167.7.22.2
Patent #1,802,970 - heating buildings
167.7.22.3
Patent #1,853,119 - determining distance by echo
167.7.22.4
Patents #1,854,025 - #1,901,503
167.7.23
Patent #1,854,025 - generating and detecting impulses
167.7.23.1
Patent #1,859,621 - apparatus for setting to best photographic exposure
167.7.23.2
Patent #1,882,183 - means for parking cars
167.7.23.3
Patent #1,899,026 - means for modulating electric energy by light impulses
167.7.23.4
Patent #1,901,502 - light modulators
167.7.23.5
Patent #1,901,503 - tooth brush
167.7.23.6
Patents #1,924,032 - #1,991,892; Other Patent Materials
167.7.24
Patent #1,924,032 - height indicator
167.7.24.1
Patent #1,991,892 - height indicator
167.7.24.2
Skinner patent application for leather dressing (patent #1,847,629), 1929-1932
167.7.24.3
Original patents, 1893, 1899, 1927
167.7.24.4
Two Volumes of Fessenden Patents, 1891-1935
167.7.25
Extra Patent Copies, #12,115 - #1,157,094
167.7.26
Extra Patent Copies, #1,158,123 - #1,991,892
167.7.27
Submarine Signaling Corporation: Patent Applications, 1903-1904
167.7.28
Submarine Signaling Corporation: Data to be files with licenses from, 1921-1924
167.7.28.1
Submarine Signaling Corporation: Foreign licenses, 1913-1921
167.7.28.2
Submarine Signaling Corporation: Licenses from, 1912-1917
167.7.28.3
Submarine Signaling Corporation: Licenses from, 1918-1928
167.7.28.4
Patent Applications, 1903-1904
167.7.28.5
Patent Applications, 1905-1906
167.7.29
Patent Applications, 1906-1907
167.7.30
Patent Applications, 1907-1910
167.7.31
Pending Applications, 1918-1922
167.7.32
Pending Applications, 1922-1928
167.7.33
Abandoned Applications, 1904-1911
167.7.34
Abandoned Applications, 1912-1918
167.7.35
Abandoned Applications; Patent Applications - Supplementary File, Interference Records, 1919-1928
167.7.36
Abandoned Applications, 1919-1928
167.7.36.1
Patent applications - supplementary file, interference records
167.7.36.2
Patent Applications - Supplementary File, Interference Records
167.7.37
Patent Applications; National Electric Signaling Company
167.7.38
Patent applications - supplementary file, interference records
167.7.38.1
National Electric Signaling Company - foreign Fessenden patents, 1906-1907
167.7.38.2
National Electric Signaling Company - Foreign Fessenden Patents, 1907-1908
167.7.39
National Electric Signaling Company - Foreign Fessenden Patents, 1908-1909
167.7.40
National Electric Signaling Company - Foreign Applications and Patents
167.7.41
National Electric Signaling Company - foreign Fessenden patents, 1909-1910
167.7.41.1
Foreign applications and patents - "Oscillator", 1913
167.7.41.2
Foreign applications and patents - "Long Wave", 1914
167.7.41.3
Foreign Applications and Patents
167.7.42
"Vibratory Motion", 1914
167.7.42.1
"Engine", 1914
167.7.42.2
"Engine", 1914
167.7.42.3
"Iceberg", 1914
167.7.42.4
"Iceberg", 1914
167.7.42.5
"Phonograph Kinetoscopes", 1916
167.7.42.6
"Phonograph Kinetoscopes", 1916
167.7.42.7
Foreign Applications and Patents
167.7.43
"Exhaust gas storage"
167.7.43.1
"Transmission and reception of sound waves through the ground"
167.7.43.2
"Girder case"
167.7.43.3
"Mine case"
167.7.43.4
"Under-water apparatus"
167.7.43.5
"Attuned diaphragm"
167.7.43.6
"Commutator"
167.7.43.7
"Double oscillator"
167.7.43.8
"Methods and apparatus for military and naval purposes"
167.7.43.9
Foreign Applications and Patents
167.7.44
Renewal of British heterodyne patent
167.7.44.1
Colladon and Strum on Lake Geneva experiments
167.7.44.2
Sound shadow
167.7.44.3
Devices for signaling and estimating distances
167.7.44.4
Methods and apparatus for use in locating submerged vessels
167.7.44.5
Improved methods and apparatus for use in submarine signaling
167.7.44.6
Detection and production of compressional waves
167.7.44.7
Infusors
167.7.44.8
Determining distance by echo
167.7.44.9
Foreign Applications and Patents
167.7.45
Oscillator mountings
167.7.45.1
Production of sound or compressional waves
167.7.45.2
Eliminating disturbing energy
167.7.45.3
Submarine signaling (compensator)
167.7.45.4
Directive signaling
167.7.45.5
Channel finding
167.7.45.6
Detecting gun positions
167.7.45.7
Locating submarines
167.7.45.8
Utilizing radiant impulses
167.7.45.9
Submarine signaling
167.7.45.10
Water line sound screen
167.7.45.11
Recognition signaling
167.7.45.12
Bubble screen (sound insulation)
167.7.45.13
Destroying gun positions
167.7.45.14
Foreign Applications and Patents
167.7.46
French patents, 1902-1910
167.7.46.1
German patents, 1902-1908
167.7.46.2
Patents, under International Convention, 1900-1926
167.7.46.3

8. Legal Disputes

Correspondence and Miscellaneous Material
167.8.1
One copy, "Radio Retailer and Jobber," April, 1926
167.8.1.1
Data for suits, general, 1902-1926
167.8.1.2
Correspondence, 1907-1910
167.8.1.3
Correspondence, 1911
167.8.1.4
Correspondence, 1912-1920
167.8.2
Correspondence, 1921-1930
167.8.3
Correspondence and Legislation
167.8.4
Correspondence, 1924-1928
167.8.4.1
Chronological abstract of letters and events, 1902-1925
167.8.4.2
Legislation pertaining to legal disputes, 1924-1927
167.8.4.3
Legislation pertaining to legal disputes, 1924-1927
167.8.4.4
Law re Combinations and monopolies
167.8.4.5
Patent laws, etc.
167.8.4.6
Articles and Case Files
167.8.5
Clippings
167.8.5.1
Magazines
167.8.5.2
Browne and Woodworth: National Electric Signaling Company suit - patent statement, 1911-1925
167.8.5.3
Browne and Woodworth: National Electric Signaling Company suit - patent statement, 1911-1925
167.8.5.4
Browne and Woodworth: Case account, etc., 1911-1915
167.8.5.5
Browne and Woodworth: George K. Woodworth - copies of letters furnished, 1917-1931
167.8.5.6
Hurlburt, Jones, and Hall, 1924-1927
167.8.5.7
Case Files
167.8.6
Hurlburt, Jones, and Hall, 1928-1932
167.8.6.1
Hurlburt, Jones, and Hall, 1928-1932
167.8.6.2
Hurlburt, Jones, and Hall, 1928-1932
167.8.6.3
Combination Suit: Radio Corporation of America option agreement and release, final form and drafts
167.8.6.4
Combination Suit: Work papers leading up to final draft agreement
167.8.6.5
Combination Suit: Work papers used in combination case
167.8.6.6
Combination Suit: Fessenden statements re Radio Corporation of America suit - patent valuations
167.8.6.7
Combination Suit: Frank J. Staub
167.8.6.8
Combination Suit: Owen D. Young - General Electric Company, Boyd B. Jones file, 1926-1928
167.8.6.9
Combination Suit: Owen D. Young - General Electric Comapny, Fessenden file, 1927-1928
167.8.6.10
Case Files
167.8.7
Combination Suit: Plaintiff's declaration
167.8.7.1
Commonwealth Country Club, 1922-1927
167.8.7.2
Coolidge Corner Electric Shop, 1925-1929
167.8.7.3
Fessenden v. Gordon Dexter of Submarine Signaling Company - bills of complaint (1920) - exhibits, 1912-1920
167.8.7.4
Fessenden v. Gordon Dexter of Submarine Signaling Company - bills of complaint (1920) - exhibits, 1912-1920
167.8.7.5
Fessenden claims against German Government, 1919-1925
167.8.7.6
Kintner, receiver, National Electric Signaling Company v. United States Government, 1916-1925
167.8.7.7
National Electric Signaling Company receivers v. United States Government, 1920-1929
167.8.7.8
Printed briefs, etc.
167.8.7.9
National Electric Signaling Company v. United States Government, 1917-1927
167.8.7.10
Final documents in National Electric Signaling Company suit
167.8.7.11
National Electric Signaling Company, Historical, 1896-1926
167.8.7.12
Fessenden v. National Electric Signaling Company
167.8.8
Memo "A" - assignment of patents
167.8.8.1
Summary of 1911-1912 pleadings
167.8.8.2
Settlement, 1916
167.8.8.3
George K. Woodworth - memo for use in suit, 1915-1925
167.8.8.4
Memo for use in suits, 1914-1927
167.8.8.5
Firth testimony, 1908-1929
167.8.8.6
Failure of Fessenden to assign patents, 1903-1911
167.8.8.7
Letters re business done or turned down, 1905-1909
167.8.8.8
Letters re Fessenden's wireless system, 1903-1908
167.8.8.9
Letters re Fessenden and Walker (#6), 1908-1909
167.8.8.10
Protesting against Company turning down business (#7)
167.8.8.11
Memoranda (#8)
167.8.8.12
Leading to formation of National Electric Signaling Company, (#9), 1901-1902
167.8.8.13
Material, 1892-1902
167.8.8.14
Printed court materials
167.8.8.15
Letters regarding Contract of 1908
167.8.8.16
Letters regarding Contract of 1908-1911
167.8.8.17
Fessenden v. National Electric Signaling Company and Other Case Files
167.8.9
Copies of letters in files of Browne and Woodworth, 1915
167.8.9.1
Copies of letters in files of Browne and Woodworth, 1916
167.8.9.2
Copies of letters in files of Browne and Woodworth, 1916
167.8.9.3
Copies of letters in files of Browne and Woodworth, 1917-1923
167.8.9.4
Radio Telephone Company v. Collins Wireless Telephone Company, 1909-1910
167.8.9.5
Russell Print v. Fessenden, 1926
167.8.9.6
United States Government and Great Britain - Fessenden reimbursement claims, 1907-1917
167.8.9.7
Suits re breakage of furniture: Mr. Cross, Attorney, 1930-1931
167.8.9.8
Suits re breakage of furniture: Pittsburg Plate Glass, 1929
167.8.9.9
Suits re breakage of furniture: Bermuda Line, 1929
167.8.9.10
Suits re breakage of furniture: Stewart's Colonial Furniture, 1929-1930
167.8.9.11
Suits re breakage of furniture: Haywood Furniture Company, 1929-1931
167.8.9.12

9. Interest in Invention and Science in General

Medals of Award
167.9.1
Franklin Institute, John Scott Medal, 1926-1931
167.9.1.1
Institute of Radio Engineers, 1913-1926
167.9.1.2
Medals of award, 1912
167.9.1.3
Clippings and Other Data re Scientific Developments
167.9.2
Article file, 1918-1920
167.9.2.1
Scrapbooks, 1906, 1911-1912
167.9.2.2
Photos
167.9.2.3
Clippings, Whitney article on invention, 1925
167.9.2.4
Scientific clippings, 1926-1930
167.9.2.5
Aeronautics, 1930
167.9.2.6
Report on gyroscopic theory, 1914
167.9.2.7
Pholog or photographic book clippings
167.9.2.8
Power data clippings, 1922-1928
167.9.2.9
Clippings and Other Data; Other Inventors
167.9.3
Clippings and other data: Radio clippings
167.9.3.1
Clippings and other data: "Trusts" - radio and other clippings
167.9.3.2
Clippings and other data: Federal Trade Commission, Government Radio action
167.9.3.3
Clippings and other data: Submarine S-4 disaster, 1927-1928
167.9.3.4
Clippings and other data: American Telephone Company Journal, 1925
167.9.3.5
Clippings and other data: Wireless telegraphy and te;llephony, 1908-1909
167.9.3.6
Clippings and other data: Committee on Postal Affairs, Censorship
167.9.3.7
Other inventors: C. J. Thatcher, 1931
167.9.3.8
Other inventors: W. E. D. Stokes, 1911-1914
167.9.3.9
Other inventors: E. Kilburn Scott, 1911-1913
167.9.3.10
Other inventors: Lambert Schmidt, 1911-1913
167.9.3.11
Other inventors: Rothamsted Experimental Station, 1921-1926
167.9.3.12
Othern inventors: Charles W. Ridinger, Elihu Root, 1923
167.9.3.13
Other Inventors
167.9.4
Professor George D. Birkhoff, 1918-1933
167.9.4.1
F. L. O. Wadsworth, 1911
167.9.4.2
Dr. Birkhoff, reports, 1918
167.9.4.3
Dr. Birkhoff, reports, 1919
167.9.4.4
Dr. Birkhoff, reports, 1920
167.9.4.5
Dr. Lee De Forest, 1915-1929
167.9.4.6
Thomas A. Edison, 1915-1927
167.9.4.7
J. Marvin Roberts
167.9.4.8
Other Inventors; Fessenden Writings
167.9.5
Other inventors: Wright Brothers, 1911-1912
167.9.5.1
Other inventors: Offers of collaboration and/or demonstration from other inventors, 1912-1930
167.9.5.2
Other inventors: Oscar C. Roos, 1928-1929
167.9.5.3
Other inventors: Personal, 1926-1928
167.9.5.4
Fessenden writings: Scientific American, 1916-1928
167.9.5.5
Fessenden writings: The Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1910-1928
167.9.5.6
Fessenden writings: Miscellaneous re scientific writings, 1916-1930
167.9.5.7
Fessenden writings: Science, 1900-1928
167.9.5.8
Fessenden writings: Cohesion, electricity, magnetism and gravitation
167.9.5.9
Fessenden writings: Articles, 1906-1911
167.9.5.10
Fessenden writings: One set Fessenden autobiography in Radio News, Jan.-Nov., 1925
167.9.5.11
Fessenden writings: Autobiography in Radio News, proof sheets
167.9.5.12
Fessenden writings: Autobiography in Radio News, manuscript
167.9.5.13
Fessenden writings: Fessenden biographical material
167.9.5.14

10. Deluged Civilization

Scope and Content:

After World War I until his death in 1932, Reginald A. Fessenden concentrated on a geographical problem inherent in the classical myths which he called "mytharcheology." Assuming a reasonableness in the myths, he found data consistently confusing for one geographical area and concluded there was a misreading of the geographical descriptions. He determined that the "Atlantic Ocean" of the myths was really a reference to the Ocean of Atlantis (today's remnant is the Caspian Sea) and that this ocean and surrounding territory had been profoundly altered by a deluge, probably a tidal wave.

Fessenden also believed that on the western shore of the Ocean of Atlantis had probably existed a race of men living in an advanced state of civilization, in a veritable Garden of Eden, isolated and protected by natural barriers of water and mountains and that the deluge had dispersed these people, fanning them out in migrations for eventual nations of Greeks, Phoenicians, Egyptians, Sumerians, Finns, and Semites.

In 1923, worried that the new colonizations in the area of the Caucasus Isthmus by the Russians would obscure archeological data necessary to support his thesis, Fessenden hurried into print with a four chapter explication of a portion of this theory of the lost civilization as well as two extraneous chapters. In this collection are two copies of page proof and a typescript of THE DELUGED CIVILIZATION OF THE CAUCUS ISTHMUS (Boston: T. J. Russell Print Co., 1923), Pp. 139, 500 copies. The titles of the chapters are an adequate revelation of the contents:

I. The Geography of Greek and Semitic Mythology.

II. Sequences (Traditions of the Deluge, Birthplace of Mankind, etc.)

III. The Physical Characteristics of the Caucasus Isthmus and Their

Influence on Primitive Theology and Science (The Garden of Eden,

Description of Atlantis, etc.)

IV. By-Products of Civilizations (Labor and Capital, Sales Tax, How

Edward VII Gave Instructions which Resulted in the Invention of a

Device for Advanced Warning of Zeppelin Raids; Langley and the

Wright Brothers, etc.)

V. Solution of Problems (Crop Stabilization, Effects of Over-Organ-

ization, Power Storage, etc.)

VI. The Records of the Ur-Al and of the Cabeiri.

In addition to the above publication, Fessenden was billed $100 by a linotype company in March 1923, for printing a 28-page manuscript called, "A Possible Glacial Age Factor, and a Possible Definite Location and Date of the Deluge, and Its Possible Bearing on Race Migration." Only the typescript copy is in this collection.

[Note: There is also a printed flyer dated November 20, 1923, with

the heading ADDENDA - "National Council of Jewish Women Opposes Use

of Bible in Public Schools," with Fessenden's name printed after

the text. A typescript copy and a newspaper clipping from the

BOSTON TRANSCRIPT which is quoted in the flyer are preserved.

Correspondence relating to DELUGED CIVILIZATION includes ca. 400 letters to Fessenden as well as copies of his own letters to correspondents. Letters are to and from writers and scholars-- professional and amateur Egyptologists, Assyriologists, anthro- pologists, as well as amateur scholars--often members of the St. Botolph Club of Boston. Extended correspondence was exchanged with Edward Chiera, Institute of Oriental Studies, University of Chicago (28 letters); Robert E. Briggs of Boston (32 letters); Edward Gilchrist of the St. Botolph Club (24 letters); and poet Robert Hillyer (9 letters). Other scholars who shared ideas with Fessenden were W. E. D. Allen of London, author of A HISTORY OF THE GEORGIAN PEOPLE, 1932; James H. Breasted of the Oriental Institute, Chicago, author of THE CONQUEST OF CIVILIZATION, 1926; Assyriologist Albert F. Clay; W. J. Holland of the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburg; geologist George McCready Price; archeologist Arles Hrdlicka of the Smithsonian Institute and Sir Flinders Petrie of The British School of Archeology in Egypt.

Those with expertise agreed with Fessenden that his hypothesis could only be supported by archeological exploration of the Caucasus Isthmus, possibly in conjunction with Russian scientists. Numbers of letters reveal Fessenden's hopes for an expedition, with Assyriologist Clay, Egyptologist Breasted, anthropologist Hrdlicka, and Fessenden himself as engineer or "general handy man...I can also cook." Letters indicate that in 1925 an endowment was sought from Mrs. Mary B. Longyear, member of the board of the American School of Oriental Research, and a few years later, after successful litigation over patents, Fessenden offered $10,000 of his own to support an expedition.

Many letters are basically acknowledgments for complimentary copies of THE DELUGED CIVILIZATION OF THE CAUCASUS ISTHMUS such as those from Thomas Edison; poet John Macy; senator Henry Cabot Lodge, whose copy is now in the Duke University Library; Lord Balfour; Herbert Weir Smith of Harvard; scientist Frank W. Very; Hilaire Belloc; C. B. Gulick, a classical scholar; V. S. Illiaschenko, student of philology; Edgar J. Banks, Babylonian scholar; novelist James Branch Cabell; W. J. H. Strong, research engineer and amateur archeologist; author Chard Powers Smith; Robert Fulton Blake of the Submarine Signaling Corporation; M. Rostovt- zeff, Yale Department of the Classics, etc.

Fessenden sought information on problems in the myths such as flying lizards and exotic citrus fruit, place names, and old maps from the U. S. Department of Agriculture, U. S. Department of War, and Royal Geograph- ical Society of London. His theories of taxation were discussed in some detail by correspondent Charles J. Bullock, the Harvard economist; philology and the tracing of place names were frequent topics with Gilchrist and Briggs. Occasionally letters provide a point of view on the unbecoming reclusiveness of the Lowell Institute in Boston, post-war attitude towards Germany, disapproval of Joseph Stalin and the new Russian regime, the Teapot Dome Scandal, architectural credit for the Library of Congress being given to the wrong man, controversy over the Wright Brothers' v. Langley's contribution to aviation, feasibility of power storage plant on the Alps (to Mussolini), similarities of the secret society of the Cabeiri and Freemasonry, etc.

Through the 1920's there are intermittant exchanges with Wilson Follett, editor of the Yale University Press and later an editor at Knopf Publishers concerning publication. While at Yale, Follett rejected DELUGED CIVILIZATION because advisory scholars took exception to the detail of Fessenden's treatment of ancient Oriental geography, history, folklore, and philology as often inaccurate and believed that his interpretations were more likely to be fanciful than scholarly (June 22, 1923).

Of special interest are two letters to Fessenden's son from W. E. D. Allen from London and Salzburg (February 28 and April 14, 1933) in which he discusses other scholars and scholarship relative to Fessenden's interest in a lost civilization, as well as Fessenden's own scholarship-- likening him to Schliemann, the amateur archeologist who uncovered the site of many-layered Troy. Allen advised that the two copies of the notes left by Fessenden be placed in two separate banks. (See Misc- ellaneous, DELUGED CIVILIZATION below for extent of notes preserved in this collection.)

On March 18, 1924, Chapter 10 of DELUGED CIVILIZATION was published in the CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR with the headline, "Finding a Key to the Route Described in the Sacred Writings of the Egyptians." In the collection is a copy of the Monitor "chapter" and the typescript with the title "The Key to the Book of the Dead."

March 8, 1926, Chapter 9 was published in the CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR with the headline "How it was Discovered that All So-Called Myth Lands were the Caucasus." A copy of the newspaper "chapter" is in the collection as well as the typescript copy with the title "The Mother-land of Mankind: the Caucasus."

Chapter 11, "The Egyptian and Aryan Home-Lands," DELUGED CIVILIZATION OF THE CAUCASUS ISTHMUS, was published by the Massachusetts Bible Society, Boston, 1927, 250 copies. Page proof in the collection indicates that there were ca. 22 pages; the typescript copy is also preserved.

A hundred copies of a posthumous edition consisting of published and unpublished papers relative to the DELUGED CIVILIZATION were published by Reginald K. Fessenden, the son. Two of the chapters are those cited above for 1924 and 1926. Preserved are the printer's copy and much of the type- script copy prepared by Fessenden, senior. The table of contents contains an introduction by the son and the following chapter headings: "The Records of the Pre-Deluge Civilization of the Caucasus Isthmus," Chapter 7, Pp. 4-14; "The Home of Abraham," Chapter 8, Pp. 15-19; "How it was Discovered that the So-Called Myth Lands were the Caucasus Isthmus," Chapter 9, Pp. 20-22 (See also CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR, March 8, 1926); "Finding a Key to the Sacred Writings of the Egyptians," Chapter 10, Pp. 23-25 (See also CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR, March 18, 1924); "Cacasia, Mother of the Great Civilizations," Pp. 26-28; "The Morning Land of the Caucasus," Pp. 29-31; "The Zenith of the Babylonian Astro- nomers," Pp. 32-34; "Plato's Atlantis Word Puzzle," Pp. 35-37; "The Egyptian Ten Pre-Deluge Kings of Solon and Plato," Pp. 38-40; "An Apparently Definite Identification on Masons with the Egyptian M-S-N," Pp. 41-44 [Reprint of six-page pamphlet by Bro. Professor Reginald A. Fessenden, P. M., Euclid Lodge, Boston; "An Apparently Definite Iden- tification of Masons with the Egyptian M.S.N." (Liverpool: Merseyside Association of Masonic Research, 1923)]; "Synopsis of Some Unpublished Chapters of The Deluged Civilization," Pp. 47; 2 maps.

NOTES: Two folders have miscellaneous notes on place names, primitive word roots, a few handwritten notes; and a 12-page typescript called "Eusebius, Preparatio." The balance of the notes are taken from Breasted's CONQUEST OF CIVILIZATION, Pliny's NATURAL HISTORY, Rostovt- zeff's IRANS AND GREEKS IN SOUTH RUSSIA, and other secondary sources.

Several folders of newspaper and magazine clippings deal with archeology and contemporary topics discussed by Fessenden in Chapters 4 and 5 in DELUGED CIVILIZATION. One folder contains pasteups of printer- ready maps and lists of maps.

Pamphlets and Periodicals include Charles J. Bullock's "The American Money Market," 1930; "Bank Advertisements: Ancient and Modern," 1928; "Dionysius of Syracuse--Financier," 1930; The American Schools of Oriental Research--Brochure, 1923-1924 and BULLETIN, October, December, 1923; October 1924. Also Josephus Daniels, "Wilson, Master Strategist," THE AMERICAN LEGION MONTHLY, December, 1926; Victor K. Eustafieff, "Cossack Youth," ASIA, January, 1930; "Second General List of Asiatic Names," Royal Geographic Society, 1923; W. E. D. Allen, "The Ancient Caucasus and the Origin of the Georgians," THE ASIATIC REVIEW, October 1928; Edward Gilchrist, "The Double Deacon," THE MASTER MASON, April, 1927 (et al).

Correspondence, Incoming, 1924-1934, n.d.
167.10.1
Correspondence, Outgoing, 1923-1933
167.10.2
DELUGED CIVILIZATION, Chapters 1-6, 1923
167.10.3
DELUGED CIVILIZATION
167.10.4
Chapter 10, 1924
167.10.4.1
Chapter 9, 1926
167.10.4.2
Chapter 11, 1927
167.10.4.3
Reprinted and unpublished papers, 100 copies printed posthumously, Chapters 7-10, etc., 1933
167.10.4.4
Printed Materials
167.10.5
Newspaper Clippings and Periodical Articles
167.10.5.1
Miscellaneous Maps and Notes
167.10.5.2

11. Miscellaneous personal materials

Miscellaneous
167.11.1
1929 Federal and State income taxes
167.11.1.1
Miscellaneous, 1907-1931
167.11.1.2
Naval Reserve Papers, 1917-1930
167.11.1.3
Bermuda investments, 1930-1931
167.11.1.4
Appointment books, 1890-1909
167.11.1.5
Photographs
167.11.1.6
Miscellaneous Clippings and Photographs
167.11.2
Miscellaneous clippings and photographs - apparatus data book, 1905-1906
167.11.2.1
Canadian Company - clipping book
167.11.2.2
Miscellaneous clippings
167.11.2.3
Golf and sports clippings
167.11.2.4
Business methods - clippings
167.11.2.5
Medical and health clippings
167.11.2.6
Special clippings
167.11.2.7
Holdings in the Douglas Library relating to Reginald A. Fessenden
167.11.2.8

12. Cockburn Estate, 1931-1934

Scope and Content:

Mr. and Mrs. Fessenden were administrators of the estate of Mr. Cockburn, uncle of Mrs. Fessenden.

Correspondence and Case Files
167.12.1
Court proceedings
167.12.1.1
More material on the estate
167.12.1.2
Charlotte Stockbridge, Housekeeper to Mrs. Cockburn, letters to Mrs. Fessenden, 1931-1933
167.12.1.3
Cockburn estate, 1931-1934
167.12.1.4
Correspondence
167.12.2
J. A. Dickson to Mrs. Fessenden, 1931-1933
167.12.2.1
Mrs. Clare Degan to Mrs. Fessenden, 1931-1934
167.12.2.2
Mrs. Victoria Cockburn to Mrs. Fessenden, 1933-1935
167.12.2.3

13. Other material related to Fessenden

Printed Materials
167.13.1
M. A. Thesis: "Reginald Aubrey Fessenden, American Communications Pioneer", 1972
167.13.1.1
Feasibility Study "Fessenden Park in Dare County, North Carolina", 1980
167.13.1.2
"Fessenden, Builder of Tomorrows", 1940
167.13.1.3
"Register of the George H. Clark Radioana Collection c. 1880-1950,", 1985
167.13.1.4
"Fessenden's TV System"
167.13.1.5

Subject Headings

  • Reginald Aubrey Fessenden, 1866-1932