Box 50
Contains 35 Results:
Experiments and Inventions, 1862 - 1966, bulk: 1915 - 1964
Technical Information, 1910 - 1964
Photographs and Negatives, circa 1910-1963
This sub-series contains photographs and photographic negatives taken of Benjamin Miessner’s inventions and experiments. Subjects include but are not limited to Miessner's office and laboratory setup; Miessner’s electronic instruments, including musicians performing with them; metal detectors; and sound wave recordings.
Correspondence, 1871 - 1970, bulk: 1918 - 1965
Business Correspondence, 1871 - 1967, bulk: 1918 - 1965
Subject Correspondence, 1900 - 1970, bulk: 1928 - 1964
Legal Matters, 1919 - 1967
The Legal Matters series consists of documents which are legal in nature, or which discuss legal reform. It includes legally binding contracts, court documents, correspondence and publications on patent legislation and reform, and applications for patents.
Patent Legislation and Reform, 1935 - 1967, bulk: 1947 - 1967
Patent Applications, 1919 - 1965, bulk: 1950 - 1959
This sub-series contains documents related to Miessner’s applications for patents. Inventions for which there are patent applications include electronic musical instruments, especially the electronic piano, and fountain pens.
Publications, 1899 - 1972
Serials, 1919 - 1968
Personal Files, 1913 - 1972
Piano Technical Drawings and Notes, bulk: 1951 - 1955
Electronic Instruments, circa 1930s
Many photographs and articles in this file contain labels from Miessner with figure numbers and descriptions.
Subject Files, 1913 - 1970
The Subject Files series contains files compiled by Miessner based on subject. They contain a mixture of different material types, including but not limited to correspondence, magazine and newspaper clippings, Miessner’s notes, photographs, books, and patents. Subjects present in the collection include but are not limited to astronomy, acoustics, demonstrations of Miessner’s inventions, metal detectors, and Miessner's friend Emil J. Simon.
Experiments and Devices, circa 1930s-1960s
This sub-series contains photographs and photographic negatives taken of Benjamin Miessner’s inventions and experiments. Subjects include but are not limited to Miessner's office and laboratory setup; Miessner’s electronic instruments, including musicians performing with them; metal detectors; and sound wave recordings.
Miessner Fountain Pens, 1950 - 1965
Bernhardt Electronic Piano Correspondence, 1955 - 1958
This file contains correspondence and a patent license agreement between Miessner and Bernhardt's Furniture Limited on the Bernhardt Electronic Piano, drawings of the Bernhardt Electronic Piano, and a page from a Bernhardt sales ledger.
The Baldwin Piano Company, 1950, 1955-1956
Miessner Presentations on Creativity at Rutgers University, 1955 - 1964
Calvin W. Taylor, 1962 - 1965
United States Water Reservoirs, September 1950 - November 1950
Creativity and Invention, 1953 - 1961
Miessner Patent Application No. 616,917 and 485,471 Patent Files, circa 1951-1955
This sub-series contains documents related to Miessner’s applications for patents. Inventions for which there are patent applications include electronic musical instruments, especially the electronic piano, and fountain pens.
Benjamin Miessner Patent Application No. 485,471 Electronic Piano, 1955 - 1958
This patent application was used in the suit "The Rudolph Wurlitzer Company v. Miessner Inventions, Inc."