Harvard University. Psycho-Acoustic Laboratory.
Harvard University Psycho-Acoustic Laboratory records, 1940-1972.
Contains correspondence and other records of S.S. Stevens, director of the Laboratory, and including building specifications, faculty folders, budget reports, memoranda, and photographs, 1942-1972, regarding relations of the Laboratory to the Harvard University Psychology Department, laboratory facilities in Memorial Hall, teaching, and other matters. Material for World War II and subsequent research contracts include items relating to administrative and technical matters. These records include correspondence, memoranda, budget, progress and other reports concerning Harvard work for organizations such as National Defense Research Committee, U.S. Army and Navy, National Science Foundation, Bell Telephone Laboratories, Federal Communications Commission, and National Research Council. Also includes related project files for apparatus designed by the Laboratory under wartime contracts with memoranda, patent agreements, reports, anthropometric data, drawings and photographs, personnel and equipment records; and Laboratory of Psychophysics computer programs, 1965 and 1969.
The Psycho-Acoustic Laboratory was established in 1940 to conduct research on problems of speech, hearing and communications during World War II. The facility continued after the war and in 1962 the name was changed to Psychophysics Laboratory.
Stevens, S. S. (Stanley Smith), 1906-1973.
Harvard University. Psycho-Acoustic Laboratory -- Administration.
Harvard University. Laboratory of Psychophysics.
Harvard University. Dept. of Psychology.
Harvard University. Psychological Laboratory.
Harvard University. Dept. of Psychology -- Faculty.
Harvard University -- Laboratories.
Harvard University -- Scientific apparatus collections.
Harvard University -- Research grants.
United States. Office of Scientific Research and Development.
United States. Office of Scientific Research and Development. National Defense Research Committee
National Science Foundation (U.S.
United States. Federal Communications Commission.
United States. Army.
United States. Navy
National Research Council (U.S.)
Bell Telephone Laboratories
Sound laboratories.
Bioacoustics -- Research.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Communications -- Research.
Photographic prints. ftamc
Personnel records. ftamc aat
Contracts. ftamc
Harvard University -- Relations with federal government.
Harvard University -- Psychology.
Harvard University -- Relations with industry.
AIP-ICOS
Harvard University. Archives. Pusey Library. Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.