Singer, S. Fred (Siegfried Fred), 1924- Search this
Extent:
54.5 Cubic feet ((50 records center boxes))
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Publications
Photographs
Drawings
Financial records
Notes
Correspondence
Place:
Outer space -- Exploration -- United States
Outer space -- Exploration
Date:
1953-1989
bulk 1960-1980
Scope and Contents:
This collection consists of Singer's personal papers. The material consists of correspondence and research files, as well as financial records. The collection covers Singer's career beginning with his tenure at Maryland and continued through his retirement in 1989.
Biographical / Historical:
Dr. Siegfried Fred Singer (1924- ) is a professor, physicist, and administrator. Singer emigrated to the United States from Vienna in 1940 (naturalized 1944) and attended Ohio State University (BEE 1943; D.Sc. (honorary) 1970) and Princeton (AM 1944, Ph.D. (physics) 1948). He taught briefly as a doctoral candidate at Princeton (1943-44) before joining the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory as a physicist (1946-50). He acted as the Office of Naval Research Scientific Liaison Officer at the US Embassy in London (1950-53), then joined the faculty of the University of Maryland (assoc. professor, physics 1953-59; professor 1959-62). He continued to alternate between public and academic positions, working at the National Weather Satellite Center, Department of Commerce (Director, 1962-64); School of Environmental and Planetary Science, University of Miami (Dean, 1964-67); Department of the Interior (Deputy Assistant Secretary for Water Quality and Research, 1967-70); University of Virginia (Professor, Environmental Science, 1971-87); and the Department of Transportation (Chief Scientist, 1987-89). Singer authored a number of papers and articles on astrophysics, space exploration, and environmental issues and was involved in formulating public policies on these topics.
General:
NASMrev
Provenance:
S. Fred Singer, gift, 1989, 1989-0130, unknown
Restrictions:
No restrictions on access
Rights:
Material is subject to Smithsonian Terms of Use. Should you wish to use NASM material in any medium, please submit an Application for Permission to Reproduce NASM Material, available at Permissions Requests
This collection, compiled by J. Gorden Vaeth, consists of documents, reports, news clippings, scrapbooks, publications, and photographs relating to rigid and non-rigid airships worldwide.
Scope and Contents:
This collection consists of documents, reports, news clippings, scrapbooks, publications, and photographs relating to rigid and non-rigid airships worldwide, including the USS Shenandoah; USS Akron; USS Macon; USS Los Angeles; Schütte-Lanz; R-23; TC-14: and the Zeppelins Hindenburg and Bodensee. It was compiled by J. Gordon Vaeth for personal and research reasons.
Arrangement:
Collection is arranged by type of material. Most publications are housed individually in folders.
Biographical / Historical:
J. Gordon Vaeth (1921-2012) was an accomplished author and historian on the subject of airships. He was known as the 'leader of the airship underground' during his earlier days with the Naval Airship Program at the start of World War II. During his active duty in the U. S. Navy (1942-1946), he was assigned to Commander Airship Patrol Group One, later Commander Fleet, Airships, Atlantic, then to Naval Air Station Lakehurst. He entered civilian life in 1947, continuing to work with programs relating to airships, including at the Office of Naval Research, the Helios Project, and on Skyhook. Vaeth held many positions for the federal government and was the director of systems engineering for the National Environmental Satellite Service at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) at the time of his retirement. Vaeth was a frequent lecturer, including appearances in television documentaries, as well as the author of numerous professional articles and books.
General:
Additional materials: Mr. Vaeth also donated a number of books and volumes of "The Airship Quarterly" which are housed in National Air and Space Museum Branch Library.
Provenance:
J. Gordon Vaeth, Gift, 1993, NASM.1994.0011
Restrictions:
No restrictions on access
Rights:
Material is subject to Smithsonian Terms of Use. Should you wish to use NASM material in any medium, please submit an Application for Permission to Reproduce NASM Material, available at Permissions Requests
This accession consists of two notebooks written by geophysicist Gordon G. Lill (1918-1996) during his time with the United States Office of Naval Research. These notebooks
concern the core materials from the Funafuti and Bikini Atolls. Materials also include scientific illustrations.
This collection consists of two reels of magnetic tape recordings and three copies of the transcript of these tapes which runs to 42 pages plus a cover sheet. The tapes contain in-flight voice transmissions from the Stratolab-High 5 flight.
Biographical / Historical:
The Stratolab program was a series of manned balloon flights undertaken by the U.S. Navy's Office of Naval Research to perform high-altitude experiments. The first flight of the Stratolab program took place on August 10, 1956 and set an altitude record for an open gondola. Stratolab-High 5 launched on May 4, 1961 from the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Antietam in the Gulf of Mexico. The pilot was Commander Malcolm D. Ross of the Office of Naval Research and the observer was Lieutenant Commander Victor A. Prather, Jr. of the Naval Medical Research Institute. One of the objectives of Stratolab-High 5 was to test space suits above 99% of the Earth's atmosphere. The suits worn by Ross and Prather were slightly modified Mercury space suits that had the controls and gauges placed where they were easily reached and read and contained a liquid mixture that could be sipped through a tube fixed inside the helmet. Both men were wired to record physiological data which was automatically relayed to medical personnel aboard the aircraft carrier. The gondola, designed by Winzen Research, Inc. of Minneapolis, Minnesota, was fitted with floats for an ocean landing and carried two radios. The balloon was the largest ever used for manned flight with a volume of 10 million cubic feet. The complete craft, balloon and gondola, was 483 feet tall at launch. Stratolab-High 5 set an altitude record for manned balloon flight by reaching 113,740 feet during the mission. Stratolab High-5 landed safely in the Gulf of Mexico at the end of the flight and Ross was recovered safely by helicopters but Prather was killed when he slipped off the hoist and drowned.
Provenance:
Department of the Navy, Navy Historical Center, Gift, 2008
Restrictions:
No restrictions on access.
Rights:
Material is subject to Smithsonian Terms of Use. Should you wish to use NASM material in any medium, please submit an Application for Permission to Reproduce NASM Material, available at Permissions Requests
This collection consists of photographs, correspondence, reports, clippings and press kits, mostly centering on the following ballooning topics: Project Skyhook, Project Helios, Stratoscope I and II and Stratolab. There is also material on general ballooning events, the Vanguard satellite and the VTOL.
Biographical / Historical:
The stratospheric balloon flights of Auguste Piccard in 1931-1932 changed the way people thought about conquering the stratosphere and began a race to the stratosphere via the balloon which rivaled the race to the moon in the 1960s. The ballooning of the 1930s, including Auguste and Jean Piccards' work and the Explorer flights, led to Project Helios during the 1940s. Project Helios, in turn, led to Skyhook, Stratolab and modern scientific ballooning. These modern projects, i.e., Project Skyhook, allowed longer look times than sounding rockets and were far more economical. Furthermore, they were valuable in obtaining data for both scientific missions and military interests.
General:
NASMrev
Provenance:
Office of Naval Research, Gift, 1993, 1993-0050, Public Domain
Restrictions:
No restrictions on access
Rights:
Material is subject to Smithsonian Terms of Use. Should you wish to use NASM material in any medium, please submit an Application for Permission to Reproduce NASM Material, available at Permissions Requests
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Transonic aerodynamics : technical papers selected from the Transonic Perspective Symposium, Moffett Field, California, February 18-20, 1981 / edited by David Nixon
Author:
Transonic Perspective Symposium (1981 : Moffett Field, Calif.) Search this
Mechanical behavior of crystalline solids ; proceedings of a symposium, April 28-29, 1962. Held under the auspices of the Ceramic Educational Council of the American Ceramic Society, with the cooperation of the National Bureau of Standards, and under the sponsorship of the Edward Orton Junior Ceramic Foundation and the Office of Naval Research. The symposium took place at the 64th annual meeting of the American Ceramic Society in New York City
Author:
United States National Bureau of Standards Search this
Deep-sea lobsters of the families Polychelidae and Nephropidae (Crustacea, Decapoda) in the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea / by Richard William Firth, Jr. and Willis E. Pequegnat
Proceedings of the first National Coastal and Shallow Water Research Conference, October, 1961, Baltimore, Maryland, Los Angeles, California, Tallahassee, Florida / edited by D. S. Gorsline ; sponsored by The National Science Foundation and the Office of Naval Research
Title:
First National Coastal and Shallow Water Research Conference
Author:
National Coastal and Shallow Water Research Conference (1st : 1961 : Baltimore, Md., etc.) Search this
Proceedings of the fourth Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment, 12, 13, 14 April 1966 / sponsored by Office of Naval Research, Geography Branch, and Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories ; scientific advisor, National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council
Author:
Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment (4th : 1966 : University of Michigan) Search this
United States Office of Naval Research Geography Branch Search this
Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories (U.S.) Search this
University of Michigan Willow Run Laboratories Search this
Sensitivity and behavioral reaction of sharks to electric stimuli and recording of brain activity with chronic implanted electrodes / prepared for the Office of Naval Research, Biology Branch
