Frederick Bedell papers, 1891-1984.
Collection Number: 14-22-2190
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Frederick Bedell papers, 1891-1984.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
14-22-2190
Abstract:
Correspondence, notes, and drawings relating to hearing and devices for the deaf;
files on the oscilloscope; files relating to his student work at Yale, his teaching
career at Cornell, and his subsequent research at California Institute of Technology.
Creator:
Bedell, Frederick, 1868-1958.
Quanitities:
4.2 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
Professor of physics.
Frederick Bedell received an A.B. degree from Yale University in 1890 and a Ph.D
degree from Cornell in 1892. He was appointed Assistant Professor of Physics at Cornell
in 1893, and, in 1904, Professor of Applied Electricity. His most important contributions
in electrical engineering were his experimental investigations and theoretical studies
delaing with alternating currents. In 1917, he was appointed as an advisor in the
establishment at Cornell of one of the United States Army Schools of Military Aeronautics
which led to his work in the investigation of airplane performance and design. He
also worked on the development of devices to aid the deaf by utilizing the phenomenon
of sound conduction through the bones. For twenty-nine years he served as editor of
the Physical Review. After his retirement, he did research at California Institute of Technology. Frederick
Bedell died in 1958.
Correspondence, notes, and drawings relating to hearing and devices for the deaf;
files on the oscilloscope; files relating to his student work at Yale, his teaching
career at Cornell, and his subsequent research at California Institute of Technology;
correspondence files; personal and family papers; and bound volumes including biographical
papers, reprints, news clippings, and patents. Also Modern Gypsies, by Mary Crehore Bedell.
Bibliography of publications by Bedell including papers, theses, and charts.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Frederick Bedell papers, #14-22-2190. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections,
Cornell University Library.
Names:
Cornell University. Department of Physics
Yale University -- : Students.
California Institute of Technology
Subjects:
Electric currents, alternating.
Electricity -- Experiments.
Electric measurements.
Oscilloscopes.
Bone conduction.
Hearing aids.
Hearing.
Physics -- Study and teaching.
CONTAINER LIST
Container
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Description
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Date
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Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Report of part of the Short Electric Railway System, Rochester, 1891 (book)
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1891 |
Box 1 | Folder 2 |
An Electric Elevator (Bedell's first invention)
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Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Mechanism of the ear (model)
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Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Hearing
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Box 1 | Folder 5 |
The Mechanism of Hearing
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Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Memo on hearing
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Box 1 | Folder 7 |
Hearing, original drawings
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Box 1 | Folder 8 |
Hearing notes; Talk given at Cornell, CIT, others
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Box 1 | Folder 9 |
Hearing in animals
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Box 1 | Folder 10 |
Hearing in birds
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Box 1 | Folder 11 |
Cat's ear
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Box 1 | Folder 12 |
Bone conduction dictograph
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Box 1 | Folder 13 |
Bone conductor hearing aid, photos
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Box 1 | Folder 14 |
News clippings on "Deaf Speaker" bone conduction hearing aid
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Box 1 | Folder 15 |
Bone conduction patent-assignment to Dictograph
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Box 1 | Folder 16 |
Letters to the Burts re Dictograph,
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Oct. 3, 1930-Feb. 27, 1936 |
Box 1 | Folder 17 |
Dictograph - decisions, settlements, contract,
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1938 |
Box 1 | Folder 18 |
Bibliography, 1892-1900 (see accession folder for detailed list)
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1892-1900 |
Box 2 | Folder 1 |
Oscilloscope and voltage-regulating auto-transformer
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Box 2 | Folder 2 |
Correspondence,
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1926-1928 |
Box 2 | Folder 3 |
Reprints
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Box 2 | Folder 4 |
Orders,
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1929-1930 |
Box 2 | Folder 5 |
Sales
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Box 2 | Folder 6 |
Correspondence re General Radio purchase of oscilloscope and transformer patents
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Box 2 | Folder 7 |
Patent infringement suit of General Radio against DuMont Lab
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Box 2 | Folder 8 |
Court cases - press clippings
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Box 2 | Folder 9 |
T.V. gift oscilloscope
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Box 2 | Folder 10 |
DuMont recommended for Edison Medal,
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1955 |
Box 2 | Folder 11 |
Miscellaneous, including alternating current dictionary, "unit" book contracts
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Box 3 | Folder 1 |
AAAS - American Association for the Advancement of Science
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Box 3 | Folder 2 |
AIEE - American Institute of Electric Engineers
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Box 3 | Folder 3 |
AIEE - Vancouver paper,
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1942 |
Box 3 | Folder 4 |
American Institute of Physics
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Box 3 | Folder 5 |
Eta Kappa Nu Association
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Box 3 | Folder 6 |
Physical Society
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Box 3 | Folder 7 |
Societies
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Box 3 | Folder 8 |
Thomas Alva Edison Foundation
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Box 3 | Folder 9 |
Papers by Bedell fellow workers
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Box 3 | Folder 10 |
Papers by Bedell (reprints)
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Box 3 | Folder 11 |
Special reprints by friends I
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Box 3 | Folder 12 |
Special reprints by friends II
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Box 3 | Folder 13 |
Miscellaneous science articles
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Box 3 | Folder 14 |
Letters re Bedell's books
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Box 4 | Folder 1 |
Caltech - General
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Box 4 | Folder 2 |
Caltech - Mt. Wilson, Palomar, news clips
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Box 4 | Folder 3 |
Caltech - Millikan news clips
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Box 4 | Folder 4 |
Cornell University - Official, appointments and retirement, thesis
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Box 4 | Folder 5 |
Cornell University - History of physics, founding of AAAS and Physical Society, Ernest
Merritt letters
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Box 4 | Folder 6 |
Cornell in Pictures, 1868-1954 (book)
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1868-1954 |
Box 4 | Folder 7 |
Yale University - General
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Box 4 | Folder 8 |
Yale University - Early professors, biographical sketches of Nichols, Merritt, Moler
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Box 5 | Folder 1 |
Correspondence, A-C
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Scope and Contents
Allen, Frank; Bailey, W.B.; Ballard, William C.; Baitsell, G.A.; Baver, L.D.; Berry,
Romeyn; Blaker, Adelaide; Blair, William L.; Brandow, Baird; Buckley, Oliver; Cal.
Inst. Tech. (Bacher, R); Cal. Inst. Tech.; Caroline (Thomas), Crehore, Albert
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Box 5 | Folder 2 |
Correspondence, F-Joh
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Scope and Contents
Fact and Publication; FBI; Fite, William B.; Ford, Henry (1929 letters); Goldsmith,
Norris; Goldsmith, Thomas; Grantham (prof.); Hartman, Paul; Holmes, George; Horne,
Harley; Johnson, J. Kelly
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Box 5 | Folder 3 |
Correspondence, J
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Scope and Contents
Joslin, Elliot
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Box 5 | Folder 4 |
Correspondence, K-M
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Scope and Contents
King, A.A.; Kirkpatrick, Paul; Kuhn, Jack; Lahens; Lennox, William; Lohman, Ralph;
Librarian, Cornell U.; Lyons, Helen; Marshall; Matey, George; Maxstadt, Francais;
Maerritt Family; Millikan, Robert; Morey, Dan; Mueller, George; Murdock Carlton
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Box 5 | Folder 5 |
Correspondence
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Scope and Contents
Lorentz, H.A.
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Box 5 | Folder 6 |
Correspondence, N-R
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Scope and Contents
Needham, J.C.; Neher, Victor; Noyes, Bradford; Overal, Edward A.; Pasadena; Pasadena
Presbyterian Church; Piersan, Albert; Reich, Herbert J.; Richards, Lorenzo; Ries,
Donald; Ries, Heinrich; Rivers, Ruth and Tom
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Box 5 | Folder 7 |
Correspondence, S-Z
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Scope and Contents
Scott, Merit; Strong, John; Swann, W.F.G.; Utereiner, Ray; Who's Who in America; White,
William; Wilcox, W.F.; Zeiger, Franklin
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Box 5 | Folder 8 |
Pensions
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Box 5 | Folder 9 |
Income Tax Returns,
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1847-1951 |
Box 5 | Folder 10 |
Annuities
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Box 5 | Folder 11 |
Photographs
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Box 5 | Folder 12 |
Photographs
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Box 6 | Folder 1 |
Award, "Modern Pioneer of the American Frontiers of Industry,"
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Feb. 16, 1940 |
Box 6 | Folder 2 |
Bibliography
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Box 6 | Folder 3 |
Biography - F. Bedell and Mary Crehore Bedell, includes genealogy
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Box 6 | Folder 4 |
Correspondence re move to Pasadena,
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1937 |
Box 6 | Folder 5 |
Early recollections, school records
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Box 6 | Folder 6 |
80th birthday, acknowledgements, ode by F.B. Hirsch
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Box 6 | Folder 7 |
Family miscellaneous
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Box 6 | Folder 8 |
Graduate students
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Box 6 | Folder 9 |
Health and exercise
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Box 6 | Folder 10 |
Integrals - early notes
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Box 6 | Folder 11 |
Memorabilia
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Box 7 | Folder 1 |
Miscellaneous - some fun, some wisdom
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Box 7 | Folder 2 |
Papers re estate of Edwin F. Bedell (father)
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Box 7 | Folder 3 |
Personal miscellaneous
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Box 7 | Folder 4 |
Personal miscellaneous, guest and address books
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Box 7 | Folder 5 |
1938 wedding announcement
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1938 |
Box 7 | Folder 6 |
School compositions,
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1877-1883 |
Box 7 | Folder 7 |
Correspondence,
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1880-1886 |
Box 7 | Folder 8 |
Correspondence,
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1887-1890 |
Box 7 | Folder 9 |
Correspondence,
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1891-1896 |
Box 7 | Folder 10 |
Correspondence,
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1896-1897 |
Box 7 | Folder 11 |
Correspondence,
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1897-1907 |
Box 7 | Folder 12 |
Correspondence,
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1810-1952 |
Box 8 | Folder 1 |
Vols. 1-7, Biographical papers, reprints, news clippings, patents, etc. of Frederick
Bedell (see accession folder for detailed list)
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Box 8 | Folder 2 |
Modern Gypsies, by Mary Crehore Bedell
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Box 8 | Folder 3 |
"Magnetism of Iron and the Magnetic Circuit," a collection of notes,
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1894 |
Box 9 | Folder 1 |
Publications mainly by F. Bedell, 1892-1949 (see accession folder for detailed list)
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1892-1949 |