Stratton, Samuel W. (Samuel Wesley), 1861-1931.
Samuel W. Stratton papers, 1881-1934.
Reports, resolutions, and plans document Stratton's participation in the establishment of the National Bureau of Standards; scrapbooks of congratulatory letters mark his appointment as its first director. Also included are minutes, reports, and memoranda from the Submarine Safety Board; and reports and invoices about the National Guard. Trial transcripts and other papers document Stratton's role as a committee member appointed by the Governor of Massachusetts to review the verdict of the Sacco and Vanzetti trial. Also included are speeches, most of which were delivered while Stratton was president of MIT, to manufacturing groups about research in industry and science; and sketches and manuscript drafts for an unfinished biography of Stratton by Samuel Prescott, a member of the MIT faculty.
Samuel Wesley Stratton, 1861-1931, B.S. 1886, Illinois Industrial University at Urbana (later the University of Illinois), taught mathematics, physics, and electrical engineering at the University of Illinois, then physics at the University of Chicago, rising to the rank of professor in 1900. In 1899 he was asked to head the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey's Office of Weights and Measures, where he developed the plan for the establishment of a bureau of standards. The law establishing the National Bureau of Standards passed in March 1901 and President McKinley appointed Stratton its first director; he remained there for twenty-one years. In January 1923 he became the ninth president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and served for seven years; he then became the first chairman of the MIT Corporation.
Dewey, Davis Rich, 1858-1942.
Little, A. D. (Arthur Dehon), 1863-1935.
Lowell, A. Lawrence.
Michelson, Albert A. (Albert Abraham), 1852-1931
Nichols, E. L. (Edward Leamington), 1854-1937
Prescott, Samuel Cate, 1872-
Pritchett, Henry S. (Henry Smith), 1857-1939.
Walker, William Hultz, 1869-1934.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology -- Faculty -- Personal and professional papers.
United States. National Bureau of Standards
United States. Navy Submarine Safety Board.
University of Chicago -- Faculty.
Sacco-Vanzetti Trial, Dedham, Mass., 1921.
Gage, Lyman J.
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