William Littlewood papers, [1917-1967?].
Collection Number: 2820

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:

William Littlewood papers, [1917-1967?].

Repository:

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections

Collection Number:

2820

Creator:

Littlewood, William, 1898-1967.

Quanitities:

25 cubic feet.

Physical Medium

Material base and configuration--Tapes and phonograph records included.

Scope and content

Includes correspondence and other personal papers; business correspondence, mostly regarding aviation and automotive engineering; speeches and talks (including sound recordings); Cornell University course books, Trustee papers, and other material; scrapbooks of clippings, letters, and photographs; photgraphs of people, airplanes, and engines; mimeographs and printed material from the Committee of the SST-Sonic Boom of the National Academy of Sciences; pamphlets and other data on various airlines, aircraft, resorts, clubs, etc.; miscellaneous notes, mimeographs, and books; numerous medals, citations, awards, etc.; glass slides; and memorabilia, Monsanto Aviation Saftey Award statue.

INFORMATION FOR USERS

Preferred Citation

William Littlewood. Papers, #2820. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

Biographical / Historical

William Littlewood graduated from Cornell University (Class of 1920) with a degree in mechanical engineering. He taught physics, mechanics, and machine design at Cornell, was awarded the Sibley Prize for engineering scholarship for two years, and was president of the Cornell Society of Engineers. He was an honorary fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society of the United Kingdom, of the Canadian Aviation and Space Institute, and of the American Insitute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He was president of the American Institute of Aeronautical Sciences, a member of the Cornell Engineering Council, and president of the Society of Automotive Engineers. He received an honorary doctor of engineering from the University of Maryland, the Flight Safety Foundation Medal, the Daniel Guggenheim Medal, and the Wright Brothers Medal. He helped to develop the DC-3, DC-4, DC-6, DC-7, Boeing 707, and Convair 990. In 1944, President Franklin D. Roosevelt named him to the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. He later became chairman of NASA's Research Advisory on Aircraft Operating Problems. He was elected a Cornell alumni trustee in 1955, and at the time of his death was vice chairman of the executive committee of the Board of Trustees of Cornell University.

SUBJECTS

Names:

American Institute of Aeronautical Sciences

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Canadian Aviation and Space Institute

Cornell Engineering Council

Cornell Society of Engineers

Cornell University. Board of Trustees

National Academy of Sciences. Committee of the SST-Sonic Boom

Royal Aeronautical Society of the United Kingdom

Society of Automotive Engineers

United States. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics

United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Research Advisory Committee on Aircraft Operating Problems

Subjects:

Aeronautics.

Air lines.

Automobiles -- Design and construction.

Daniel Guggenheim Medal.

Engineering.

Mechanics.

Physics.

Sibley Prize.

Wright Brothers Medal.

Engineers.

Form and Genre Terms:

Photographs.

Lantern slides.

CONTAINER LIST

Container		Description	Date
		Series I. Personal Files
Box 1		Correspondence	1934-1935
Box 1		Correspondence	1936
Box 1		Correspondence	1937
Box 1		Correspondence	1938
Box 1		Correspondence	1939
Box 1		Correspondence	1941-1950
Box 1		Letter from Wright Aeronautical Corporation	1929-09-16
		Scope and Contents regarding parts for V-145
Box 1		Folder regarding purchase of property in Garden City	1930-1950
		Scope and Contents from Margaret M. Carroll
Box 1		Folder certifying that Littlewood completed "apprenticeship"	1927-1952
		Series II. Correspondence
Box 2		AAL Public Relations correspondence	1941-1964
Box 2		AAL Safety Correspondence	1963-1964
		Scope and Contents Beard
Box 2		AAL Correspondence	1960-1963
		Scope and Contents Sadler
Box 2		AAL Correspondence	1951-1961
		Scope and Contents C.R. Smith
Box 2		Air Cargo	1958-1961
		Scope and Contents Airfreight-General
Box 2		Air Traffic Control Problems	1957-1962
		Scope and Contents Sam Saint
Box 2		American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (formerly IAS)	1963-1964
Box 2		AIAA	1963-1964
		Scope and Contents Committee on Aircraft Operations, Membership list and correspondence
Box 2		Report on Air Transport Lines	1929
Box 2		American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)	1958-1964
Box 2		Armstrong-Siddeley	1929
		Scope and Contents General
Box 2		Boeing 707	1954-1959
Box 2		Canadian Aeronautics & Space Institution	1954-1963
Box 2		Cargo Airplane, SOR 182	1961
Box 2		Cargo Airplane, DC-7F Conversion	1957-1959
Box 2		Department of Commerce	1962
		Scope and Contents Panel on Transportation Research and Development
Box 2		Compact Jet	1961-1962
Box 2		Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory	1952
Box 2		Cornell University	1964
Box 2		Cornell Centennial Planning Committee	1961
Box 2		Cornell University	1962-1964
		Scope and Contents (I&LR)
Box 2		Cornell University	1963-1964
		Scope and Contents (Buildings and Properties Comm.)
Box 2		Convair	1952-1956
		Scope and Contents Miscellaneous (240's. 340's)
Box 2		Convair	1958-1961
		Scope and Contents 600 or 990
Box 2		Douglas "Caravelle"	1960
Box 2		DC-6	1952-1956
Box 2		DC-7	1951-1955
Box 2		DC-8	1955-1961
Box 2		DC-9	1957-1959
Box 2		Defense Science Board	1963
		Scope and Contents Unclassified
Box 2		Electra	1955
		Scope and Contents Personal
Box 2		Electra	1959-1961
Box 2		Electra II	1961
Box 2		Electra	1960
		Scope and Contents Testimony before House Committee
Box 2		Engineers' Council for Professional Development	1961-1962
Box 2		Engineers' Joint Council	1959-1960
Box 2		European Trip Report	1928-1948
		Scope and Contents England and France 1928, Germany 1948
Box 2		Farnborough (England) show	1961-1962
		Scope and Contents newspapers
Box 2		Federal Aviation Agency	1961
Box 2		Flight Safety Foundation	1960-1962
		Scope and Contents Industry Advisory Committee
Box 2		Flight Safety Foundation	1957-1958
		Scope and Contents Awards
Box 2		Flight Safety Foundation	1963-1964
		Scope and Contents Awards
Box 2		Flight Safety Foundation	1959-1963
		Scope and Contents Awards
Box 3		General Electric	1954-1961
Box 3		Guggenheim Board of Award	1959-1964
Box 3		Helicopters/VTOL	1956-1961
Box 3		Hoover Medal Board of Award	1964
Box 3		Hospitalization (AAL)	1962-1964
Box 3		IAS	1958-1962
Box 3		Kurtz, Howard	1952-1962
Box 3		Littlewood	1960-1962
		Scope and Contents Expense Accounts
Box 3		Littlewood	1963
		Scope and Contents Expense Accounts
Box 3		Littlewood	1958
		Scope and Contents Noise Paper
Box 3		Lockheed	1953
		Scope and Contents General
Box 3		Maryland, University of	1956-1959
Box 3		Massachusetts Institute Of Technology	1959-1963
		Scope and Contents Committee
Box 3		Miscellaneous correspondence	1953-1964
		Scope and Contents 4 folders
Box 3		NASA- RACAOP	1952-1964
		Scope and Contents 2 folders
Box 3		NASA- "Campaign on Aeronautics Emphasis"	1963
Box 3		NASA- Jet Turbulence	1963-1964
Box 3		National Research Council/National Academy of Sciences	1956-1960
Box 3		Noise	1952-1961
		Scope and Contents Miscellaneous
Box 3		Project Beacon	1961
Box 3		Project Horizon	1961
Box 4		Pratt & Whitney	1957-1961
		Scope and Contents Engines
Box 4		Princeton University	1959-1962
Box 4		Proximity Warning Indicator/Collision Avoidance System	1957-1963
Box 4		Rolls-Royce	1954-1956
Box 4		Royal Aeronautical Society	1963-1965
		Scope and Contents Man Powered Aircraft Group
Box 4		Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) Correspondence	1960-1962
Box 4		Sperry Board Award	1959-1962
Box 4		Supersonic Transport	1962-1963
		Scope and Contents American Airlines
Box 4		Unsorted Correspondence	1950-1967
Box 4		Case against American Airlines	1961
		Scope and Contents envelope containing some correspondence and official mimeo. report on case brought against American Airlines and dismissed by Delaware Supreme Court
Box 4		"20 Years of Commercial Aviation Data Collected by John McLaughlin
		Scope and Contents 2 large folders
Box 4		"Survey of Commercial Operations"	1929
		Scope and Contents typescript, and data sheets. and other miscellanea pertaining to Transport Aircraft
		Series III. Materials on Various Airlines
Box 13		Fairchild	Undated
		Scope and Contents including correspondence, little pamphlets and other data
Box 13		Douglas	Undated
Box 13		Boeing	Undated
Box 13		United Aircraft	Undated
Box 13		North American Aviation, Inc.	Undated
Box 13		Lockheed Aircraft Corporation	Undated
Box 13		General Electric	Undated
Box 13		Northrup Corporation	Undated
Box 13		Hopkins-Campbell, Inc.	Undated
Box 13		Curtiss-Wright	Undated
Box 13		Convair Eight-Eighty	Undated
Box 13		The Flight Safety Foundation- ''What others Think of F.S.F."	Undated
Box 13		A Chronicle of the Aviation Industry in America, 1903-1947	Undated
Box 13		A Manual of Aircraft Gas Turbine Operation	Undated
Box 13		Progress in Air Transportation" - Lockheed Project L-193	Undated
		Series IV. Museum Items
Box 17		Flight Safety Foundation Award	1956
		Scope and Contents Wooden plaque
Box 17		S.A.E.	1957
		Scope and Contents Wooden plaque
Box 17		Federal Aviation Agency for Distinguished Public Service	1961-1965
		Scope and Contents Wooden plaque
Box 17		A.I.A.&A.	1964-1966
		Scope and Contents Wooden plaque
Box 17		National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics	1944-1953
		Scope and Contents Wooden plaque
Box 17		S.A.E. (Society of Automotive Engineers)- Certificate of Appreciation	1955
		Scope and Contents Laminated on board
Box 17		S.A.E.-25 years active membership	1960
		Scope and Contents Laminated on board
Box 17		Printing blocks	Date Unknown
		Scope and Contents 11 total- 10 Christmas card, 1 of W.L.
Box 17		Metal gear cover (?) Caminez Engine	Undated
Box 17		Dedication of North American Aviation, Inc., Science Center. James Howard Kindelberger Memorial Laboratories	1964-08-27
		Scope and Contents 3" diameter bronze medal
Box 17		Victory Medal	Date Unknown
		Scope and Contents First World War
Box 17		Perspex paperweight	1920-1960
		Scope and Contents Donald W. Douglass, 40th Anniversary
Box 17		MSS. Black notebook	Date Unknown
		Scope and Contents calculations and other data
Box 17		10 glass slides	Date Unknown
		Scope and Contents airplane engines, etc.
Box 17		Paper outlines of airplanes	Date Unknown
		Scope and Contents for layout purposes
Box 17		Orville Wright and Wilbur Wright Flying Machines	1906
		Scope and Contents Copy of patent
Box 17	MU-413	William Littlewood's medal for great achievement in Aeronautics	1958
Box 17	MU-414	Wright Brothers Medal	1935
		Series V. Citations (deframed)
Box 18		Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences- Certificate of Membership	1932
Box 18		Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences- Honorary Fellow	1932
Mapcase Folder 2		Wright Brothers Medal	1935
		Scope and Contents certificate
Mapcase Folder 2		Society of Automotive Engineers- Member	1936
Box 18		Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences- Fellow	1939
Box 18		Ordnance Distinguished Service Award	1944
		Scope and Contents (presented to Coordinating Research Council)
Box 18		United States Navy- Certificate of Achievement	1945
		Scope and Contents (awarded to Coordinating Research Council)
Box 18		Society of Automotive Engineers- as Vice-President	1945
Mapcase Folder 1		Membership of National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics for five years	1944-02-10
		Scope and Contents signed by Franklin D. Roosevelt
Mapcase Folder 1		Membership of National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics for five years	1948-12-01
		Scope and Contents signed by Harry Truman
Box 18		American Airlines-twenty-five years' service	1952
Box 18		Framed cover of AMERICAN AVIATION	1952
		Scope and Contents Interview with W. L ., Vice-Pres. American Airlines
Mapcase Folder 2		American Airlines -- Best Wishes for 25th Anniversary	1952
Box 18		S.A.E. Technical Board- Certificate of Appreciation	1954
Box 18		Society of Automotive Engineers- as Past President is an Honorary Member	1954
		Scope and Contents laminated
Mapcase Folder 2		Greetings from Society of Automotive Engineers	1954
Mapcase Folder 2		Awarded Guggenheim Medal	1958
Mapcase Folder 3		University of Maryland- Doctor of Engineering	1959
Box 18		The Royal Aeronautical Society -- Fellow of the Society	1961
Box 18		The National Secretaries Association -- Guest speaker at 10th Annual Boss Night	1962
Mapcase Folder 3		Monsanto Aviation Safety Award	1962
Box 18		The Royal Aeronautical Society- Honorary Fellow (F.R.Ae.S.)	1963
Box 18		Distinguished Service Award for Merit - American Airlines	1963
Box 18		Distinguished Service Award for Merit - American Airlines	1963
Box 18		Canadian Aeronautics and Space Institute -- Fellow	1964
Box 18		Wings Club- Third Wings Club Sight lecture	1966
Box 18		Piece of original fabric from Kitty Hawk "Wright Flyer" with photograph and write-up recalling successful flight in 1903	Undated
Box 18		Probably membership of a fraternity, "Nayati," founded 1907, C. U.	Undated
Mapcase Folder 2		Hand colored sketch and signatures from "Friends of Douglas"	Undated
Mapcase Folder 1		Douglas Aircraft (?) in flight, signed Donald ? Douglas	1938
		Scope and Contents Photograph
Mapcase Folder 1		National Safety Council Trophy awarded to American Airlines	1941
		Scope and Contents Photograph
Box 18		Plant maintenance gang	1941-01-15
		Scope and Contents Photograph
Mapcase Folder 1		Embroidered tablecloth made by Mrs. Jo (James H.) Doolittle	Undated
		Scope and Contents embroidered signatures, photograph
Mapcase Folder 3		American Airlines flagship over New York City	Undated
		Scope and Contents Photograph
Box 18		Autographed photograph of James Doolittle	Undated
Mapcase Folder 3		Republic P-47 Thunderbolts in flight	Undated
		Scope and Contents Photograph
Mapcase Folder 3		American Airlines plane in flight	Undated
		Scope and Contents Photograph
Mapcase Folder 2		Murphy's Roaring Birdman certificate	1939
Box 18		National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics - Chairman of the Committee on Operating Problems and member of the Industry Consulting Committee	1954
Box 18		Military Air Transport Service- Recognition of flight in turbine powered transport	1955
Mapcase Folder 2		Society of Automotive Engineers, Inc.- Life Member	1957
Box 18		Charter membership of 10-mile-a-minute Club	1960
Box 18		Air Scooter Pilot ("flown at altitude of 5" without oxygen")	1960
Box 18		The American Society of Mechanical Engineers- as lecturer before sections of the Society	1959-1960
Box 18		Institute of the Aeronautical Science- testimonial	1960
Box 18		The Newcomen Society in North America -- Membership	1961
Box 18		The Wings Club, Inc.- Non-resident member	1961
Box 18		National Aviation Club -Full membership	1963
Mapcase Folder 3		American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics- Honorary Fellow	1963
Box 18		Rotary Club of St. Michaels, Maryland, Certificate of Appreciation	1967
Box 18		Institute of the Aerospace Sciences- Member of Aerospace Technology Panel	Undated
		Series VI. Miscellaneous
Box 5		Speeches and talks	1952-1964
Box 6		Speeches on tapes and phonograph records of talks	Undated
		Scope and Contents Also printed copies of 1st. 2nd. 3rd and 4th WINGS CLUB "SIGHT" lectures. 3rd by W. L. (4 copies)
Box 7		Cornell University course books	1917-1920
Box 8		Cornell University material	Undated
		Scope and Contents (Trustee. I .L.R., Buildings & Properties Committee. Alumni, fund-raising, etc.)
Box 9		Scrapbooks
		Scope and Contents containing clippings, special letters and photographs
Box 10		Photographs
		Scope and Contents very miscellaneous, people, engines, etc.
Box 11		Material relating to National Sonic Boom Study
		Scope and Contents Research, etc., by Federal Aviation Agency National Academy of Sciences -- National Research Council Aeronautical Research Council National Aeronautical and Space Administration This is mostly mimeo.. offset and printed material.
Box 12		Marquardt Corporation
Box 14		Miscellaneous printed and mimeo. pamphlets
		Scope and Contents (many topics including aircraft, resorts, clubs, etc.)
Box 15		Miscellaneous printed and mimeo. pamphlets
		Scope and Contents (many topics including aircraft, resorts, clubs, etc.)
Box 16		Miscellaneous correspondence, notes, mimeo. and printed matter
		Scope and Contents including two Instructor's books (arithmetic, trigonometry, algebra, mechanics), Rutgers University; also MSS. notes. "Suggested Improvements for New Airplanes."

Contents

William Littlewood papers, [1917-1967?]. Collection Number: 2820

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Cornell University Library

William Littlewood papers, [1917-1967?].
Collection Number: 2820

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library