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Box 111

 Container

Contains 7 Collections and/or Records:

Education, 1947 - 1970

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSA 5, Series 3
Scope and Contents This series contains some coursework, notebooks, grade reports, and textbooks from Neil Armstrong's undergraduate aeronautical engineering studies at Purdue University. Armstrong was a student at Purdue from 1947-1949 and then was called to active service in the Navy. He returned to Purdue in 1952 and graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Aeronautical Engineering in 1955. Also included in the Education Series are materials from his master's degree work at the University of...
Dates: 1947 - 1970

Golomb, Michael and Shanks, Merrill. Elements of Ordinary Differential Equations. New York: McGraw-Hill, Book Company, Incorporated. , 1950

 Item — Box: 111, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSA 5, Series 3, Sub-Series 1, Sub-Group 2, Item 8
Scope and Contents (Armstrong's name is written inside front cover, some handwritten notes inside book. Merrill Shanks was a professor at Purdue University.
Dates: 1950

Church, Austin H. Guillet's Kinematics of Machines (5th edition). New York: John Wiley and Sons, Incorporated, 1950

 Item — Box: 111, Folder: 4
Identifier: MSA 5, Series 3, Sub-Series 1, Sub-Group 2, Item 9
Scope and Contents (Armstrong's name is written inside front cover. Some text is underlined.)
Dates: 1950

Hawkins, George. Thermodynamics (2nd edition). New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1951

 Item — Box: 111, Folder: 5
Identifier: MSA 5, Series 3, Sub-Series 1, Sub-Group 2, Item 10
Scope and Contents (Armstrong's name is written inside front cover. Some handwritten notes inside book. George Hawkins was a professor at Purdue University.)
Dates: 1951

Purdue University, circa 1947 - 1955

 Sub-Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSA 5, Series 3, Sub-Series 1
Scope and Contents The Purdue University sub-series contains Neil Armstrong's grade reports for 1948, a spiral bound notebook, various folders and two, three-ring binders which held Armstrong's class notes, assignments, labs, along with some quizzes, tests and finals from Engineering classes taken in pursuit of his undergraduate degree. Included are materials for Aeronautical Engineering, 310; 320 - Aircraft Windtunnel; 320-A - Aircraft Windtunnel Lab; 340; 350-A; Armstrong's experiment for 420 - "Preliminary...
Dates: circa 1947 - 1955

Wapakoneta High School Textbook and Purdue Textbooks, 1944 - 1953

 Sub-Group — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSA 5, Series 3, Sub-Series 1, Sub-Group 2
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: The Purdue University sub-series contains Neil Armstrong's grade reports for 1948, a spiral bound notebook, various folders and two, three-ring binders which held Armstrong's class notes, assignments, labs, along with some quizzes, tests and finals from Engineering classes taken in pursuit of his undergraduate degree. Included are materials for Aeronautical Engineering, 310; 320 - Aircraft Windtunnel; 320-A - Aircraft Windtunnel Lab; 340; 350-A; Armstrong's experiment for 420 - "Preliminary...
Dates: 1944 - 1953

Neil A. Armstrong papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSA 5
Scope and Contents The Neil A. Armstrong papers document the military, aeronautics, astronautics, teaching and corporate business career of Neil A. Armstrong. The papers also feature items from Armstrong's youth and education. The collection includes but is not limited to documents, coursework, working papers, subject files, correspondence, writings, speeches, recordings, photographs and newspaper clippings. The papers are divided into eighteen series, and further information on the scope and content of the...
Dates: 1671 - 2012; Majority of material found within 1960 - 2012