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Abstract:
The father or modern rocketry and a physicist (1882-1945). It
includes his notebooks, patents, and correspondence. Also included are his wife's papers
and the information that was gathered by his first biographer, Milton Lehman.
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Series Description
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Family & Personal Papers, 1855-August, 1945 (4 boxes)
Family papers & genealogy, autobiographical &
biographical statements, & pocket diaries arranged
chronologically. |
| Series 2 |
Professional & General Correspondence, 1901-1945 (13 boxes)
Correspondence relating to Dr. Goddard's youth, personal & professional life, arranged by
subseries: "Letters To", "Letters From", "Letters About", & within folders chronologically.
These folders include copies of Dr.Goddard's carbons which have been made on acid-free permalife
paper. The carbon copies are in a separate subseries.
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Academics, 1906- (2 boxes)
Undergraduate laboratory experiments (xerox copies from Worcester Polytechnic Institute Archives),
Physics Department lecture notebooks
arranged chronologically
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| Series 4 |
Rocket Theory & Experiments, 1903-1945 (12 boxes)
Affidavits regarding rocket theory & hardware, notebooks, test data recording static tests & actual
test flights for powder & liquid propellant rockets. Also test data relating to the adaptation of the
rocket principle to the prototype of the bazooka, early depth charge projectile (trench mortar), &
JATO (Jet Assisted Take-Off Device). Note cards kept by ECG on rocket parts and systems, with cross
references to Dr. Goddard's progress reports to the Navy and to his notebooks and affidavits, and test
results.
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Consulting Engineer, 1942-1945 (1 box)
Agreements (contracts), correspondence, memoranda, blueprints, reports
arranged chronologically.
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Reports & statements on rocket development, 1918-1941 (2 boxes)
Periodic reports to The Smithsonian Institution, Clark University, & The Daniel & Florence Guggenheim
Foundation, arranged by the receiving institution & chronological within folders. Also material on
the Clark University Research Corporation (Advisory Committee).
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Patent Cases (56 boxes)
The 214 patents & 32 unsuccessful patent applications, arranged by chronology of the case number
rather than the U.S. Letters Patent Number, were represented in two, incomplete files (Dr. Goddard's
& those of his patent attorney, Charles T. Hawley of Worcester). The integrity of the arrangement
was retained by combining the two incomplete files. The blueprints were separated, cross-referenced
and arranged according to the corresponding case. The duplicate copies of patent applications,
briefs, correspondence, and U.S. Patent Office rulings were removed to a separate subseries. The
original U.S. Letters Patents and foreign patents (British Patent No. 133,096 & French Patent No.
498,797) are arranged chronologically according to patent number and date of issue with the foreign
patents at the end of the U.S. Patents. Two copies each of U.S. Letters Patents issued to Dr. Goddard
by the official government agency, arranged chronologically according to patent number and date of
issue, are in a separate subseries. Since this processing, we have received a card file prepared by
Mrs. Goddard, which provides the researcher with a subject index to the patent cases showing the
relationship amongst cases.
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Manuscripts and Publications, 1901-1945 (5 boxes)
Arranged chronologically.
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| Series 9 |
Miscellaneous (1 box)
Arranged chronologically.
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| Series 10 |
Newspaper and magazine clippings, misc. brochures, invitations etc.
1904-1976 (15 boxes)
Arranged chronologically. |
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Lists (1 box)
Affidavits, Collection of books and articles, Correspondence to and from RHG, "List of recipients
of "This High Man" |
| Series 12 |
Magazine and Newspaper clippings 1920-1946 about Rockets, Inventions,
etc. with H. Oberth, Max Valier, and others (1 box) |
| Series 13 |
Transcripts of Goddard Diary 1898-1945 and excerpts from five green
notebooks done by ECG (1 box) |
| Series 14 |
Non-print material
Photographs [mounted] by B. Anthony Stewart, copyright National Geographic Society, paintings
by Robert Goddard, photographs, albums, gyroscopes and rocket parts.
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