Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics records, 1910-1990.
This collection contains administratrive department records, photographs, correspondence, admissions fies, department bulletins, alumni association records, awards and fellowships, course notes and exams, Gardner Lecture records, Minta Martin Lecture records, and files pertaining to the Wright Brothers Wind Tunnel. Files from the Instrumentation Laboratory, the Aeroelastic Laboratory, the Experimental Astronomy Laboratory, the Laboratory for Plasma Physics and Space Science, the Laser Laboratory, the Space Proportion Laboratory, the Supersonic Laboratory, and others are included.
In 1926 the Department of Aeronautical Engineering was created. MIT quickly accepted an offer from the Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics to build a complete laboratory for the department. In 1928, the Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory and the Aeronautical Library opened, and courses in meteorology (under the administrative control of aeronautics) began.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Aerodynamics, Supersonic
Aeroelasticity.
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Plasma physics.
Administrative records. aat
Awards.
Bulletins. aat
Correspondence. aat
Examinations. aat
Laboratory notes. aat
Lectures lcgft
Photographs. aat
AIP-ICOS
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Institute Archives and Special Collections. M.I.T. Libraries, Rm. 14N-118, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA