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Author:

Smith, Cyril Stanley 1903-1992  Search this

Physical description:

118 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm

Type:

Exhibitions

Date:

1980

1979

Topic:

Science--History  Search this

Technology--History  Search this

Art and science--History  Search this

Art and technology--History  Search this

Call number:

Q125 .S683X

Q125.S683X

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_120752

Interviewee:

Smith, Cyril Stanley, 1903-1992  Search this

Interviewer:

Brown, Robert F  Search this

Subject:

Bethe, Hans A. (Hans Albrecht)  Search this

Fermi, Enrico  Search this

Oppenheimer, J. Robert  Search this

Type:

Interviews

Sound recordings

Citation:

Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Cyril Stanley Smith, 1992 March 18-April 1. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

Decorative arts  Search this

Theme:

Craft  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)12116

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)214733

AAA_collcode_smith92

Theme:

Craft

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_oh_214733

Author:

Smith, Cyril Stanley 1903-1992-  Search this

Hawthorne, John G  Search this

Physical description:

128 p. facsim. 30 cm

Type:

Early works to 1800

Sources

Date:

1974

Topic:

Recipes  Search this

Technology--History  Search this

Call number:

T44 .M3613 1974X

T44.M3613 1974X

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_48398

Interviewee:

Smith, Cyril Stanley, 1903-1992  Search this

Interviewer:

Brown, Robert F.  Search this

Names:

Bethe, Hans A. (Hans Albrecht), 1906-2005  Search this

Fermi, Enrico, 1901-1954  Search this

Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967  Search this

Extent:

2 Items (sound cassettes (2 hr., 35 min.), analog.)

50 Pages (Transcript)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Interviews

Sound recordings

Date:

1992 March 18-April 1

Scope and Contents:

An interview with Cyril Stanley Smith conducted 1992 March 18-April 1, by Robert F. Brown, for the Archives of American Art. Smith speaks of his childhood in Birmingham, England; early immersion in analysis of materials; education at Cambridge University; research at Yale University; his work as chief metallurgist on the Manhattan Project, Los Alamos, N.M., where the atomic bomb was developed, his colleagues there, including Enrico Fermi, Hans Bethe, and J. Robert Oppenheimer; the development of the interdisciplinary research center at the University of Chicago; his position at MIT, where he has been Institute Professor since 1961; and research in the connections between fabrication and aesthetics of art forms and technology.

Biographical / Historical:

Cyril Stanley Smith (1903-1992) was a metallurgist from Cambridge, Massachusetts. Smith received a doctorate from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1926 and taught there from 1961 until his retirement in 1969. His title of Institute Professor Emeritus of Metallurgy and the History of Metallurgy, one rarely conferred and only on those whose work goes beyond traditional disciplines, reflects the high esteem in which he was held. Smith has had great influence on contemporary metalsmiths, experts in ceramics, and students of Japanese art, among others.

General:

Originally recorded 2 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 4 digital wav files. Duration is 2 hr., 35 min.

Provenance:

These interviews are part of the Archives' Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and others.

Occupation:

Physicists  Search this

Metallurgists  Search this

Topic:

Decorative arts  Search this

Genre/Form:

Interviews

Sound recordings

Sponsor:

Funding for the digital preservation of this interview was provided by a grant from the Save America's Treasures Program of the National Park Service.

Identifier:

AAA.smith92

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9930cf574-04bd-443b-8bce-4867941184af

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-smith92

Author:

Masuda, Tsuna -1821  Search this

Shirakawa, Zenryu b. 1942  Search this

Smith, Cyril Stanley 1903-1992  Search this

Niwa, Tōkei 1760-1822  Search this

Subject:

Niwa, Tōkei 1760-1822  Search this

Physical description:

96 p. : ill. (some col.), facsims. ; 28 cm

Type:

Books

Place:

Japan

Date:

1983

19th century

Topic:

Copper smelting  Search this

Copper--Metallurgy  Search this

Illustration of books  Search this

Metallurgy in art  Search this

Metallurgy  Search this

Wood-engraving, Japanese  Search this

Call number:

TN780 .M37

TN780.T882 E1801a

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_843217

Author:

Theophilus Presbyter  Search this

Hawthorne, John G  Search this

Smith, Cyril Stanley 1903-1992-  Search this

Physical description:

xxxv, 216 p., [9] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm

Type:

Books

Date:

1979

1963

Medieval, 500-1500

Topic:

Art--Early works to 1800  Search this

Christian art and symbolism--Early works to 1800  Search this

Technology--Early works to 1800  Search this

Call number:

N7420 .T383 1979X

N7420.T383 1979X

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_125944

Author:

Smith, Cyril Stanley 1903-1992  Search this

Martyl 1918-  Search this

Physical description:

49-96 p. : ill. ; 28 cm

Type:

Books

Date:

1959

Topic:

Art and science  Search this

Call number:

N72.S3 S644

N72.S3 S644

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_119055

Author:

Smith, Cyril Stanley 1903-1992  Search this

Physical description:

x, 410 p. : ill. ; 26 cm

Type:

Books

Date:

1981

C1981

Topic:

Art  Search this

History  Search this

Science  Search this

Call number:

Q171 .S618X

Q171 .S618

Q171.S618X

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_139891

Author:

Masuda, Tsuna -1821  Search this

Niwa, Tōkei 1760-1822  Search this

Shirakawa, Zenryu b. 1942  Search this

Smith, Cyril Stanley 1903-1992  Search this

Donor:

Burndy Library DSI  Search this

Physical description:

96 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm

Type:

Books

Place:

Japan

Date:

1983

1801

Topic:

Smelting  Search this

Copper smelting  Search this

Call number:

TN780 .T882 E1801a

TN780.T882 E1801a

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_200656

Author:

Margaret Hutchinson Compton Gallery  Search this

Subject:

Smith, Cyril Stanley 1903-1992  Search this

Physical description:

46 p. ; 24 cm

Type:

Books

Date:

1978

[1978]

Topic:

Art and science  Search this

Call number:

N72.S3 A83

N72.S3A83

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_187890

Author:

Smith, Cyril Stanley 1903-1992  Search this

Physical description:

291 p. illus. 26 cm

Type:

Books

Date:

1960

[1960]

Topic:

Metallography  Search this

Damascening  Search this

Call number:

TN690.S57X

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_248177

Author:

Smith, Cyril Stanley 1903-1992  Search this

Physical description:

xv, 357 p. illus. 24 cm

Type:

Books

Date:

1968

[1968]

Topic:

Steel--Metallurgy--History--Sources  Search this

Call number:

TN703 .S661

TN703.S661

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_21570

Author:

Theophilus Presbyter  Search this

Hawthorne, John G  Search this

Smith, Cyril Stanley 1903-1992  Search this

Physical description:

xxxv, 216 p. illus., plates, facsim. 25 cm

Type:

Books

Date:

1963

[1963]

Topic:

Art--Early works to 1800  Search this

Christian art and symbolism  Search this

Technology--Early works to 1800  Search this

Call number:

N7420.T383X

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_247977