Brown, F. C. (Fay Cluff), 1881-
F. C. Brown papers 1902-1964.
Material focuses on Dr. Brown's professional life: correspondence, photographs, photo albums, scrapbooks, and ephemera from the positions he had and research he conducted. Very little personal information is included.
Brown was a physicist and inventor who created and supervised the development of education exhibits, most notably as organizing director of the New York Museum of Science and Industry (part of the Museums of the Peaceful Arts), 1926-1931. He was also curator of physics exhibits at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry, 1932-1937. Much of Brown's scientific research focused on the element selenium. He invented the phonopticon, an improvement on the optophone (invented by Fournier d'Albe, 1912).
Brown, F. C. (Fay Cluff), 1881-
American Association for the Advancement of Science
United States. Army. Ordnance Dept.
United States. National Bureau of Standards
Museums of the Peaceful Arts
Museum of Science and Industry (New York, NY)
Inventors.
Inventions.
Museums.
Physics.
Physicists.
Selenium.
Phonopticon.
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AIP-ICOS
Smithsonian Institution. National Museum of American History. Archives Center. MRC 601, 12th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20560, USA