Includes correspondence, research subject files, biography files, publications, speeches, as well as teaching, organizational, and administrative files documenting Melvin Kranzberg's professional and personal life as college teacher, lecturer, historian of technology, and consultant. Subject files detail his research on hundred of diverse topics, most of which are also reflected in his volumous professional correspondence. Organizations reflected in his papers include: Association for the Advancement of Science; the Carter Library; American Association for the Advancement of Science's committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy (COSEPP); International Cooperation on History of Technology Committee (ICOHTEC); National Academy of Sciences's Committee on the Survey of Materials Science and Engineering (COSMAT); National Aeronautics and Space ADministration's Historical Advisory Board; the National Endowment for the Humanities; National Science Foundation; Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society; Society for the History of Technology (SHOT); U.S. Bicentennial Committee; among others.