Stuart Otto papers, 1918-1940.
Collection Number: 2389
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Stuart Otto papers, 1918-1940.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
2389
Abstract:
Papers relating mainly to Otto's contributions to the development of household refrigeration
by gas. Included are records of the SORCO Manufacturing Company, Scranton, Pennsylvania,
and its successor, the Gas Refrigeration Corporation, New York City. Also, Otto's
correspondence concerning the refrigeration industry; files relating to patents on
refrigeration machinery; and a typescript history of his involvement in the refrigeration
business.
Creator:
Otto, Stuart, 1888-1962.
Quanitities:
1.6 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
Businessman, inventor.
Papers relating mainly to Otto's contributions to the development of household refrigeration
by gas. Included are records of the SORCO Manufacturing Company, Scranton, Pennsylvania,
and its successor, the Gas Refrigeration Corporation, New York City. Also, Otto's
correspondence concerning the refrigeration industry; files relating to patents on
refrigeration machinery; and a typescript history of his involvement in the refrigeration
business.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Stuart Otto papers, #2389. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University
Library.
Names:
Gas Refrigeration Corporation (New York, N.Y.)
Sorco Manufacturing Company (Scranton, Penn.)
Subjects:
Otto, Albert Stuart, -- 1888-1962.
Inventors.
Refrigeration industry -- Pennsylvania -- Scranton.
Refrigeration industry -- New York (N.Y.)
Refrigeration and refrigerating machinery -- Research.
Form and Genre Terms:
Patents.
CONTAINER LIST
|
Container
|
Description
|
Date
|
|
| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Patents of the Gas Refrigeration Company,
|
1923-1934 |
| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Articles, advertisements and catalogues re refrigerators,
|
1927-1933 |
| Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Photographs re refrigeration,
|
1923-1927 |
| Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Financial records re Sorco Refrigerator Co.,
|
1923-1926 |
| Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Orders to Crocker Chair Company,
|
1926-1928 |
| Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Correspondence of Stuart Otto,
|
1933-1936 |
| Box 1 | Folder 7 |
Correspondence of Stuart Otto with H. W. Tobey,
|
1923-1926 |
| Box 1 | Folder 8 |
"Gas Age-Record",
|
1925-1933 |
| Box 1 | Folder 9 |
Sectional Committee on safety Code for Mechanical Refrigeration, American Engineering
Standards Committee,
|
1924-1932 |
| Box 1 | Folder 10 |
Correspondence and related documents re patents of the Gibson Electric Refrigerator
Corporation,
|
1924-1933 |
| Box 1 | Folder 11 |
Correspondence of Stuart Otto with representative of the Gibson Electric Refrigerator
Co.,
|
1933-1935 |
| Box 1 | Folder 12 |
Correspondence of Stuart Otto with officers of the National Refrigerator Co. largely
re Refrigerator Safety Code,
|
1926-1927 |
| Box 1 | Folder 13 |
Patent investigations of O'Neill and Bunn re Otto Refrigerator Apparatus including
reply to Report by Dean, Fairbank, Obreight, and Hirsch and preliminary report by
Ford, Bacon, and Davis,
|
1923 |
| Box 1 | Folder 14 |
Correspondence between Stuart Otto and Professor Ing R. Plank of the Kältetechnische
Institute of Karlsruhe,
|
1926-1934 |
| Box 1 | Folder 15 |
Correspondence of Stuart Otto with Sulzer Brothers of Switzerland re Refrigerator
patents,
|
1926-1933 |
| Box 1 | Folder 16 |
Correspondence of Albert Otto and Sons with vatious individuals re room ventilation
using the Temperain system of Korning and Co.,
|
1937-1941 |
| Box 1 | Folder 17 |
Correspondence of Stuart Otto with United American Bosch Corp. re mfg. Of the Sorco
Refrigerator,
|
1933-1937 |
| Box 1 | Folder 18 |
Reports on the Sorco Refrigerator; Gas Refrigeration in general; and the Gas Refrigerator
Co.,
|
1922-1957 |
| Box 1 | Folder 19 |
Testing records of Sorco Refirgerator,
|
1927-1934 |
|
1927-1928 Sorco Refrigerator tests
|
|||
|
1934 Test of Smith, Sorco, Gibson at Bosch, Springfield
|
|||
| Box 1 | Folder 20 |
Testing data including "Report of the Otto Mechanical Refrigerator" by Ford, Bacon,
and Davis, Inc., engineers. Nov. 22, 1923,
|
1923, 1935 |
| Box 1 | Folder 21 |
Correspondence between Stuart Otto and Ford, Bacon and Davis, Engineers,
|
1923-1925 |
| Box 1 | Folder 22 |
Advertising records, including agreement for underwriting co., stock certificate for
shares in Gas Refrigeration Company, and 1933 report to stockholders in the Gas Refrigeration
Co.,
|
1924, 1927, 1933 |
| Box 1 | Folder 23 |
Construction instructions for Gas Operated Refrigerator,
|
No Date |
| Box 1 | Folder 24 |
Miscellaneous correspondence re the Sorco Refrigerator and patents on "iceless refrigerators",
|
1925-1926 |
| Box 1 | Folder 25 |
Manufacturing and service records, Sorco Co.,
|
1925-1927 |
| Box 1 | Folder 26-27 |
References, articles, pamphlets, books, clippings and offprints re refrigerators and
Refrigerators,
|
1924-1936 |
| Box 1 | Folder 28 |
Misc. small blueprints, charts, drawings, and lists of such items,
|
1927, 1933, n.d. |
| Box 1 | Folder 29 |
Confidential description of Stuart Otto Automatic Iceless Refrigerator, 1923, and
specifications and description of Sorco refrigerator,
|
1923 |
| Box 2 | Folder 30 |
Patent information re the Sorco Refrigerator and related inventions (I),
|
1922-1933 |
| Box 2 | Folder 1 |
Patent information re the Sorco Refrigerator and related inventions (I),
|
1918-1936 |
| Box 2 | Folder 2 |
Articles and brochures re the Sorco Refrigerator and related inventions,
|
1923-1926 |
| Box 2 | Folder 3 |
Ortto Mechanical Refrigerator, estimated production costs and cash statements,
|
1923-1927 |
| Box 2 | Folder 4 |
Refrigerator drawings,
|
1923-1924 |
| Box 3 | Folder 5 |
Complete set of drawings "E series",
|
1926-1928 |
| Box 3 | Folder 1 |
Robers Bosch AG,
|
1929, 1933-1934 |
| Box 3 | Folder 3-Feb |
Miscellaneous drawings and blueprints Sorco Refrigerator,
|
1923-1934 |
| Box 3 | Folder 4 |
Financial records and printing material,
|
1925-1934 |