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Box 26

 Container

Contains 24 Collections and/or Records:

Benjamin Miessner in the News, 1963 - 1964

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSP 2, Series 5
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Benjamin F. Miessner papers document the working career and interests of the American inventor. It includes a large collection of patents awarded to Miessner or assigned to his company, Miessner Inventions, Inc., as well as various North American and European patents researched by Miessner; lab notebooks, blueprints, sketches, graphs, photographs, and other items documenting the experiments conducted by Miessner and his employees; correspondence between Miessner and various individuals and...
Dates: 1963 - 1964

Sigma Pi Fraternity, Eta Chapter (Purdue University), Alumni Address Lists, 1960 - 1962

 File — Box: 26, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSP 2, Series 5
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Benjamin F. Miessner papers document the working career and interests of the American inventor. It includes a large collection of patents awarded to Miessner or assigned to his company, Miessner Inventions, Inc., as well as various North American and European patents researched by Miessner; lab notebooks, blueprints, sketches, graphs, photographs, and other items documenting the experiments conducted by Miessner and his employees; correspondence between Miessner and various individuals and...
Dates: 1960 - 1962

Photographs of Benjamin Miessner, circa 1962-1963

 File — Box: 26, Folder: 2
Identifier: MSP 2, Series 5
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Benjamin F. Miessner papers document the working career and interests of the American inventor. It includes a large collection of patents awarded to Miessner or assigned to his company, Miessner Inventions, Inc., as well as various North American and European patents researched by Miessner; lab notebooks, blueprints, sketches, graphs, photographs, and other items documenting the experiments conducted by Miessner and his employees; correspondence between Miessner and various individuals and...
Dates: circa 1962-1963

Veteran Wireless Operators Association, DeForest Audion Award, 1963-1964, 1973

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSP 2, Series 5
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Benjamin F. Miessner papers document the working career and interests of the American inventor. It includes a large collection of patents awarded to Miessner or assigned to his company, Miessner Inventions, Inc., as well as various North American and European patents researched by Miessner; lab notebooks, blueprints, sketches, graphs, photographs, and other items documenting the experiments conducted by Miessner and his employees; correspondence between Miessner and various individuals and...
Dates: 1963-1964, 1973

Political Material, April 1964

 File — Box: 26, Folder: 5
Identifier: MSP 2, Series 5
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Benjamin F. Miessner papers document the working career and interests of the American inventor. It includes a large collection of patents awarded to Miessner or assigned to his company, Miessner Inventions, Inc., as well as various North American and European patents researched by Miessner; lab notebooks, blueprints, sketches, graphs, photographs, and other items documenting the experiments conducted by Miessner and his employees; correspondence between Miessner and various individuals and...
Dates: April 1964

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Audio and Electroacoustic Group, Membership Directory, 1967

 File — Box: 26, Folder: 6
Identifier: MSP 2, Series 5
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Benjamin F. Miessner papers document the working career and interests of the American inventor. It includes a large collection of patents awarded to Miessner or assigned to his company, Miessner Inventions, Inc., as well as various North American and European patents researched by Miessner; lab notebooks, blueprints, sketches, graphs, photographs, and other items documenting the experiments conducted by Miessner and his employees; correspondence between Miessner and various individuals and...
Dates: 1967

Purdue University Centennial Fund, February 10, 1970 - April 8, 1970

 File — Box: 26, Folder: 7
Identifier: MSP 2, Series 5
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Benjamin F. Miessner papers document the working career and interests of the American inventor. It includes a large collection of patents awarded to Miessner or assigned to his company, Miessner Inventions, Inc., as well as various North American and European patents researched by Miessner; lab notebooks, blueprints, sketches, graphs, photographs, and other items documenting the experiments conducted by Miessner and his employees; correspondence between Miessner and various individuals and...
Dates: February 10, 1970 - April 8, 1970

Purdue Alumni Foundation, 1970 - 1972

 File — Box: 26, Folder: 9
Identifier: MSP 2, Series 5
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Benjamin F. Miessner papers document the working career and interests of the American inventor. It includes a large collection of patents awarded to Miessner or assigned to his company, Miessner Inventions, Inc., as well as various North American and European patents researched by Miessner; lab notebooks, blueprints, sketches, graphs, photographs, and other items documenting the experiments conducted by Miessner and his employees; correspondence between Miessner and various individuals and...
Dates: 1970 - 1972

Radio Laboratory Naval Aeronautic Station Books, August 1916 - September 1917

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSP 2, Series 6
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Benjamin F. Miessner papers document the working career and interests of the American inventor. It includes a large collection of patents awarded to Miessner or assigned to his company, Miessner Inventions, Inc., as well as various North American and European patents researched by Miessner; lab notebooks, blueprints, sketches, graphs, photographs, and other items documenting the experiments conducted by Miessner and his employees; correspondence between Miessner and various individuals and...
Dates: August 1916 - September 1917

Navy Notebooks, 1916 - 1917

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSP 2, Series 6
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Benjamin F. Miessner papers document the working career and interests of the American inventor. It includes a large collection of patents awarded to Miessner or assigned to his company, Miessner Inventions, Inc., as well as various North American and European patents researched by Miessner; lab notebooks, blueprints, sketches, graphs, photographs, and other items documenting the experiments conducted by Miessner and his employees; correspondence between Miessner and various individuals and...
Dates: 1916 - 1917

Navy Career, Pensacola, 1916 - 1917

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSP 2, Series 6
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Benjamin F. Miessner papers document the working career and interests of the American inventor. It includes a large collection of patents awarded to Miessner or assigned to his company, Miessner Inventions, Inc., as well as various North American and European patents researched by Miessner; lab notebooks, blueprints, sketches, graphs, photographs, and other items documenting the experiments conducted by Miessner and his employees; correspondence between Miessner and various individuals and...
Dates: 1916 - 1917

Navy Career, Discharge, and Assistance in Interference Case, 1917 - 1920

 File — Box: 26, Folder: 19
Identifier: MSP 2, Series 6
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Benjamin F. Miessner papers document the working career and interests of the American inventor. It includes a large collection of patents awarded to Miessner or assigned to his company, Miessner Inventions, Inc., as well as various North American and European patents researched by Miessner; lab notebooks, blueprints, sketches, graphs, photographs, and other items documenting the experiments conducted by Miessner and his employees; correspondence between Miessner and various individuals and...
Dates: 1917 - 1920

"Edward Charles Elliott, Educator" Mailing Letter, May 1970

 File — Box: 26, Folder: 8
Identifier: MSP 2, Series 5
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Benjamin F. Miessner papers document the working career and interests of the American inventor. It includes a large collection of patents awarded to Miessner or assigned to his company, Miessner Inventions, Inc., as well as various North American and European patents researched by Miessner; lab notebooks, blueprints, sketches, graphs, photographs, and other items documenting the experiments conducted by Miessner and his employees; correspondence between Miessner and various individuals and...
Dates: May 1970

Personal Files

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSP 2, Series 5
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Benjamin F. Miessner papers document the working career and interests of the American inventor. It includes a large collection of patents awarded to Miessner or assigned to his company, Miessner Inventions, Inc., as well as various North American and European patents researched by Miessner; lab notebooks, blueprints, sketches, graphs, photographs, and other items documenting the experiments conducted by Miessner and his employees; correspondence between Miessner and various individuals and...
Dates: 1906 - 1978

Navy Career

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSP 2, Series 6
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Benjamin F. Miessner papers document the working career and interests of the American inventor. It includes a large collection of patents awarded to Miessner or assigned to his company, Miessner Inventions, Inc., as well as various North American and European patents researched by Miessner; lab notebooks, blueprints, sketches, graphs, photographs, and other items documenting the experiments conducted by Miessner and his employees; correspondence between Miessner and various individuals and...
Dates: 1906 - 1978

Hammond's Interference in the Publication of "Radio Dynamics", 1914 - 1917

 File — Box: 26, Folder: 26
Identifier: MSP 2, Series 7
Scope and Contents From the Series: This sub-series contains material relating to the long-standing feud between John Hays Hammond, Jr. and Benjamin Miessner over their competing claims for each other’s inventions and patents, mainly involving innovations in radio and electronics technology.Material located in the collection includes but is not limited to laboratory notebooks and invention disclosures for work done by Miessner is Hammond’s employ; correspondence between Miessner, Hammond, Jr., Lloyd Espenschied, and...
Dates: 1914 - 1917

Hammond, Jr. Electronic Piano Infringement Claims, circa 1936-1939

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSP 2, Series 7
Scope and Contents From the Series: This sub-series contains material relating to the long-standing feud between John Hays Hammond, Jr. and Benjamin Miessner over their competing claims for each other’s inventions and patents, mainly involving innovations in radio and electronics technology.Material located in the collection includes but is not limited to laboratory notebooks and invention disclosures for work done by Miessner is Hammond’s employ; correspondence between Miessner, Hammond, Jr., Lloyd Espenschied, and...
Dates: circa 1936-1939

Correspondence with Lloyd Espenschied, 1942 - 1963

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSP 2, Series 7
Scope and Contents From the Series: This sub-series contains material relating to the long-standing feud between John Hays Hammond, Jr. and Benjamin Miessner over their competing claims for each other’s inventions and patents, mainly involving innovations in radio and electronics technology.Material located in the collection includes but is not limited to laboratory notebooks and invention disclosures for work done by Miessner is Hammond’s employ; correspondence between Miessner, Hammond, Jr., Lloyd Espenschied, and...
Dates: 1942 - 1963

"A History of Some Foundations of Modern Radio-Electronic Technology" and Critique by Lloyd Espenschied, 1957 - 1963

 File — Box: 26, Folder: 30
Identifier: MSP 2, Series 7
Scope and Contents From the Series: This sub-series contains material relating to the long-standing feud between John Hays Hammond, Jr. and Benjamin Miessner over their competing claims for each other’s inventions and patents, mainly involving innovations in radio and electronics technology.Material located in the collection includes but is not limited to laboratory notebooks and invention disclosures for work done by Miessner is Hammond’s employ; correspondence between Miessner, Hammond, Jr., Lloyd Espenschied, and...
Dates: 1957 - 1963

Miessner's Critique of "A History of Some Foundations of Modern Radio-Electronic Technology", 1958 - 1962

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSP 2, Series 7
Scope and Contents From the Series: This sub-series contains material relating to the long-standing feud between John Hays Hammond, Jr. and Benjamin Miessner over their competing claims for each other’s inventions and patents, mainly involving innovations in radio and electronics technology.Material located in the collection includes but is not limited to laboratory notebooks and invention disclosures for work done by Miessner is Hammond’s employ; correspondence between Miessner, Hammond, Jr., Lloyd Espenschied, and...
Dates: 1958 - 1962

John Hays Hammond, Jr. Feud, 1910 - 1965

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSP 2, Series 7
Scope and Contents This sub-series contains material relating to the long-standing feud between John Hays Hammond, Jr. and Benjamin Miessner over their competing claims for each other’s inventions and patents, mainly involving innovations in radio and electronics technology.Material located in the collection includes but is not limited to laboratory notebooks and invention disclosures for work done by Miessner is Hammond’s employ; correspondence between Miessner, Hammond, Jr., Lloyd Espenschied, and...
Dates: 1910 - 1965; Majority of material found within 1957 - 1964

Radio Corporation of America vs. The George W. Walker Company; Work with John Hays Hammond, Jr., 1910 - 1928

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSP 2, Series 7
Scope and Contents From the Series: This sub-series contains material relating to the long-standing feud between John Hays Hammond, Jr. and Benjamin Miessner over their competing claims for each other’s inventions and patents, mainly involving innovations in radio and electronics technology.Material located in the collection includes but is not limited to laboratory notebooks and invention disclosures for work done by Miessner is Hammond’s employ; correspondence between Miessner, Hammond, Jr., Lloyd Espenschied, and...
Dates: 1910 - 1928

Hammond Radio Research Laboratory Notebook, 1911 - 1912

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSP 2, Series 7
Scope and Contents From the Series: This sub-series contains material relating to the long-standing feud between John Hays Hammond, Jr. and Benjamin Miessner over their competing claims for each other’s inventions and patents, mainly involving innovations in radio and electronics technology.Material located in the collection includes but is not limited to laboratory notebooks and invention disclosures for work done by Miessner is Hammond’s employ; correspondence between Miessner, Hammond, Jr., Lloyd Espenschied, and...
Dates: 1911 - 1912

Miessner Invention Disclosures and Picture Postcards of Gloucester, Massachusetts, 1911 - 1912

 File — Box: 26, Folder: 25
Identifier: MSP 2, Series 7
Scope and Contents From the Series: This sub-series contains material relating to the long-standing feud between John Hays Hammond, Jr. and Benjamin Miessner over their competing claims for each other’s inventions and patents, mainly involving innovations in radio and electronics technology.Material located in the collection includes but is not limited to laboratory notebooks and invention disclosures for work done by Miessner is Hammond’s employ; correspondence between Miessner, Hammond, Jr., Lloyd Espenschied, and...
Dates: 1911 - 1912