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Quarterly Compilation of Periodical Literature:
Science & Technology Cluster

Record Groups 23, 27, 167, Former 189, 227, 241, 255, 307, 370, 422

  1. "'Our Documents' Captures America's Milestones." Prologue 34, no.4 (Winter 2002): 285-290.
    RG046/RG094/RG241/RG326/RG360/JFK Library

  2. "Pieces of History: Eli Whitney's Patent for the Cotton Gin." Prologue 36, no.3 (Fall 2004): 72.
    RG241

  3. Adams, Margaret O. "Electronic Records and the Environment." Agricultural History 66, no.2 (Spring 1992): 339-344.
    RG370

  4. Arns, Robert G. "The High-Vacuum X-Ray Tube: Technological Change in a Social Context." Technology and Culture 38, no.4 (October 1997): 852-890.
    RG241

  5. Baron, W. R. "Retrieving American Climate History: A Bibliographic Essay." Agricultural History 63, no.2 (Spring 1989): 7-35.
    RG027

  6. Bernstein, Barton J. "An Analysis of 'Two Cultures': Writing about the Making and Using of the Atomic Bombs." Public Historian 12, no.2 (Spring 1990): 83-107.
    RG059/RG077/RG165/RG200/RG227/RG243/RG319/RG457/HST Library

  7. Bernstein, Barton J. "Reconsidering the 'Atomic General': Leslie R. Groves." Journal of Military History 67, no.3 (July 2003): 883-920.
    RG059/RG107/RG200/RG218/RG227/HH Library/HST Library

  8. Bernstein, Barton J. "Seizing the Contested Terrain of Early Nuclear History: Stimson, Conant, and Their Allies Explain the Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb." Diplomatic History 17, no.1 (Winter 1993): 35-72.
    RG077/RG107/RG165/RG227/DDE Library/FDR Library/HST Library

  9. Bothwell, Robert. "Radium and Uranium: Evolution of A Company and A Policy." Canadian Historical Review 64, no.2 (June 1983): 127-146.
    RG077/RG227

  10. Bowling, Kenneth R. "Neither in a Wigwam Nor the Wilderness: Competitors for the Federal Capital, 1787-1790." Prologue 20, no.3 (Fall 1988): 163-179.
    RG023/RG059/RG066

  11. Branigar, Thomas. "No Villains - No Heroes: The David Eisenhower - Milton Good Controversy." Kansas History 15, no.3 (Autumn 1992): 168-179.
    RG029/RG241

  12. Burton, Shirley J., Susan H. Karren, and Joseph D. Suster. "Following the Paper Trail West: Using Archival Sources for Nuclear History." Pacific Northwest Quarterly 85, no.1 (1994): 35-38.
    RG077/RG227/RG374

  13. Bustard, Bruce I. "20 July 1969." Prologue 35, no.2 (Summer 2003): 7-9.
    RG255/RG306/RG472/Nixon Materials

  14. Butler, Stuart L,. and Graeme McCluggage. "Taking Measure of America: Records in the Cartographic and Architectural Branch." Prologue 23, no.1 (1991): 41-57.
    RG019/RG023/RG026/RG028/RG029/RG037/RG042/RG046/RG048/RG049/
    RG054/RG057/RG066/RG074/RG075/RG076/RG077/RG083/RG092/RG096/
    RG114/RG115/RG121/RG145/RG196/RG233/RG241/RG313/RG328/RG331/
    RG370/RG373/RG393/RG456

  15. Candee, Richard M. "'Old Portsmouth...Home of the Stocking Business': A Forgotten Nineteenth-century Industry and Its Inventors." Historical New Hampshire 57, no.3&4 (Fall/Winter 2002): 85-107.
    RG029/RG241

  16. Candee, Richard M. "The 'Shaker Sock': A New Hampshire Contribution to Nineteenth-Century Machine Knitting." Historical New Hampshire 52, no.3&4 (Fall-Winter 1997): 60-77.
    RG029/RG241

  17. Candee, Richard M. "The Hibbert-Townsend Latch Needle Mystery Unraveled: Patent Control and Nineteenth-Century American Knitting Machines." Annual Proceedings: Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife 24 (1999): 113-134.
    RG021/RG241

  18. Capshew, James H. "Engineering Behavior: Project Pigeon, World War II, and the Conditioning of B. F. Skinner." Technology and Culture 34, no.4 (October 1993): 835-857.
    RG227

  19. Carter, Kent. "Moon Rocks and Moon Germs: A History of NASA's Lunar Receiving Laboratory." Prologue 33, no.4 (2001): 234-249.
    RG255/RG306/RG428

  20. Clark, Mark, and Henry Nielsen. "Crossed Wires and Missed Connections: Valdemar Poulsen, the American Telegraphone Company, and the Failure to Commercialize Magnetic Recording." Business History Review 69, no.1 (Spring 1995): 1-41.
    RG021/RG241

  21. Conlin, Michael F. "The Popular and Scientific Reception of the Foucault Pendulum in the United States." Isis 90, no.9 (June 1999): 180-204.
    RG027

  22. Conway, Erik M. "The Politics of Blind Landing." Technology and Culture 42, no.1 (January 2001): 81-106.
    RG018/RG028/RG111/RG167/RG227/RG237/RG342

  23. Cooper, Carolyn C. "Social Construction of Invention through Patent Management: Thomas Blanchard's Woodworking Machinery." Technology and Culture 32, no.4 (October 1991): 960-998.
    RG021/RG046/RG156/RG241

  24. Cooper, Carolyn C. "The Evolution of American Patent Management: The Blanchard Lathe as a Case Study." Prologue 19, no.4 (Winter 1987): 244-259.
    RG021/RG046/RG233/RG241

  25. Dobak, William A. "Quartermasters, Commerce, and Railroads: Fort Riley, Kansas, in the Nineteenth Century." Prologue 30, no.3 (Fall 1998): 208-219.
    RG027/RG092/RG094/RG108/RG111/RG393

  26. Downs, Charles F., II. "Celebrating the Wright Brothers' First Flight: The International Civil Aeronautics Conference of 1928." Prologue 35, no.4 (Winter 2003): 12-18.
    RG059/RG237/RG255/RG342/HH Library

  27. Eckert, Michael. "Strategic Internationalism and the Transfer of Technical Knowledge: The United States, Germany, and Aerodymanics after World War I." Technology and Culture 46, no.1 (January 2005): 104-131.
    RG155/RG255

  28. England, J. Merton. "Dr. Bush Writes a Report: 'Science - The Endless Frontier.'" Science 191, no.4222 (January 9, 1976): 41-47.
    RG051/RG227

  29. England, J. Merton. "The National Science Foundation and Curriculum Reform: A Problem of Stewardship." Public Historian 11, no.2 (Spring 1989): 22-36.
    RG307

  30. Erlick, David P. "The Peales and Gas Lights in Baltimore." Maryland Historical Magazine 80, no.1 (Spring 1985): 9-18.
    RG241

  31. Fleming, James Rodger. "Storms, Strikes, and Surveillance: The U.S. Army Signal Office, 1861-1891." Historical Studies in Physical and Biological Sciences 30, no.2 (Spring 2000): 315.
    RG027/RG111

  32. Fuzonie, Alan, and William Hauser. "Climate History at the National Agricultural Library." Agricultural History 63, no.2 (Spring 1989): 36-50.
    RG027

  33. Geschwind, Carl-Henry. "Embracing Science and Research: Early Twentieth-Century Jesuits and Seismology in the United States." Isis 89, no.1 (March 1998): 27-49.
    RG027/RG057

  34. Goldberg, Stanley. "Groves Takes the Reins." Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 48, no.10 (December 1992): 32-39.
    RG200/RG227/NARA photos

  35. Gondos, Victor, Jr. "The Era of the Woodruff File." American Archivist 19, no.4 (October 1956): 303-320.
    RG015/RG021/RG094/RG241

  36. Grier, David Alan. "The Math Tables Project of the WPA: The Reluctant Start of the Computing Era." IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 20, no.3 (1998): 33-50.
    RG037/RG069/RG167/RG227/RG298

  37. Gruber, Carol S. "Manhattan Project Maverick: The Case of Leo Szilard." Prologue 15, no.2 (Summer 1983): 73-88.
    RG077/RG227

  38. Gruber, Carol. "The Overhead System in Government Sponsored Academic Science: Origins and Early Development." Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences 25, no.2 (1995): 241-268.
    RG077/RG227

  39. Guston, David H. "Congressmen and Scientists in the Making of Science Policy: The Allison Commission, 1884-1886." Minerva 32, no.1 (Spring 1994): 25-52.
    RG023/RG233

  40. Gwiazda, Henry J., II. "In Search of the Big One: Earthquakes in United States History." Prologue 21, no.4 (Winter 1989): 359-371.
    RG018/RG023/RG027/RG030/RG046/RG048/RG054/RG057/RG059/RG077/
    RG080/RG092/RG095/RG111/RG126/RG151/RG168/RG268/RG287/RG306/
    RG350/RG023, Rocky Mountain Region/RG075, Pacific Southwest Region/
    RG077, Pacific Southwest Region/RG021, Pacific Sierra Region/
    RG075, Pacific Sierra Region/RG112, Pacific Sierra Region/
    RG181, Pacific Sierra Region/RG220, Pacific Northwest Region

  41. Hagan, Barry J. "'Save the Gun at All Hazzerds!'" Periodical 10, no.4 (Winter 1978-1979): 35-47.
    RG027/RG094/RG391/RG393

  42. Harris, C. M. "Specimens of Genius and Nicknacks: The Early Patent Office and Its Museum." Prologue 23, no.4 (Winter 1991): 406-417.
    RG046/RG059/RG241/RG233

  43. Harrison, John P. "Science and Politics: Origins and Objectives of Mid-Nineteenth Century Government Expeditions to Latin America." Hispanic American Historical Review 35, no.2 (May 1955): 175-202.
    RG023/RG037/RG045/RG059/RG078/RG084

  44. Hart, David M. "Herbert Hoover's Last Laugh: The Enduring Significance of the 'Associative State' in the United States." Journal of Policy History 10, no.4 (1998): 419-444.
    RG179/RG227/HH Library

  45. Hendrickson, Kenneth E., Jr. "The Civilian Conservation Corps in Pennsylvania: A Case Study of a New Deal Relief Agency in Operation." Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 100, no.1 (January 1976): 66-96.
    RG023/RG035/RG095/RG407

  46. Hershberg, James G. "'Explosion in the Offing': German Rearmament and American Diplomacy, 1953-1955." Diplomatic History 16, no.4 (Fall 1992): 511-549.
    RG084/RG227/DDE Library/HST Library

  47. Hollyday, Thomas. "The China Trade Brig John Gilpin." American Neptune 52, no.3 (Summer 1992): 187-194.
    RG027

  48. Hulse, James W. "The California - Nevada Boundary: The History of a Conflict. Part II." Nevada Historical Society Quarterly 23, no.3 (Fall 1980): 157-178.
    RG023/RG049

  49. Hulse, James W. "The California-Nevada Boundary: The History of a Conflict." Nevada Historical Society Quarterly 23, no.2 (Summer 1980): 87-109.
    RG023/RG049/RG077

  50. Kevles, Daniel J. "The National Science Foundation and the Debate over Postwar Research Policy, 1942-1945." Isis 68, no.241 (March 1977): 5-26.
    RG051/RG107/RG227/RG250/RG298/FDR Library

  51. LaMotta, Greg. "Electronic Records in the National Archives Relating to the History of Agriculture and Rural America." Agricultural History 70, no.2 (Spring 1996): 439-448.
    RG029/RG047/RG058/RG085/RG095/RG164/RG195/RG235/RG257/RG307/
    RG354/RG355/RG375/RG381/RG462/RG510

  52. Lassman, Thomas C. "Government Science in Postwar America: Henry A. Wallace, Edward U. Condon, and the Transformation of the National Bureau of Standards, 1945-1951." Isis 96, no.1 (March 2005): 25-51.
    RG040/RG128/RG167

  53. Launius, Roger D. "'Never Was Life More Interesting': The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, 1936-1945." Prologue 24, no.4 (Winter 1992): 360-373.
    RG255

  54. Launius, Roger D. "Eisenhower, Sputnik, and the Creation of NASA." Prologue 28, no.2 (Summer 1996): 126-143.
    RG011/RG111/RG255/RG306/DDE Library/LBJ Library

  55. Lubar, Steven. "Culture and Technological Design in the 19th-Century Pin Industry: John Howe and the Howe Manufacturing Company." Technology and Culture 28, no.2 (April 1987): 253-282.
    RG029/RG241

  56. MacDonald, Maureen. "Looking Back on the Twentieth Century: 1900-1925 in Photographs." Prologue 31, no.1 (Spring 1999): 53-57.
    RG030/RG111/RG126/RG165/RG185/RG208/RG255/RG306

  57. Mathews, Jane De Hart. "Arts and the People: The New Deal Quest for a Cultural Democracy." Journal of American History 62, no.2 (September 1975): 316-339.
    RG023/RG069

  58. Mergen, Bernard. "Seeking Snow: James B. Church and the Beginnings of Snow Science." Nevada Historical Society Quarterly 35, no.2 (1992): 75-104.
    RG027/RG114

  59. Mokotoff, Gary. "Soundexing Multi-ethnic Computer Databases: A Proposed Solution." National Genealogical Society Quarterly 86, no.2 (June 1998): 87-93.
    RG085/RG241

  60. Nicholson, Claudia J. "Patriotic Patents." Prologue 20, no.3 (Fall 1988): 201-205.
    RG241

  61. Oreskes, Naomi. "Laissez-tomber: Military Patronage and Women's Work in Mid-20th-century Oceanography." Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences 30, no.2 (2000): 373-392.
    RG227

  62. Owens, Larry. "The Counterproductive Management of Science in the Second World War: Vannevar Bush and the Office of Scientific Research and Development." Business History Review 68, no.4 (Winter 1994): 515-576.
    RG051/RG165/RG227

  63. Paul, Marilyn. "Designs for Democracy: 200 Years of Drawings from the National Archives." Prologue 30, no.1 (Spring 1998): 54-61.
    RG042/RG059/RG077/RG079/RG241

  64. Pfeiffer, David A. "Riding the Rails up Paper Mountain: Researching Railroad Records in the National Archives." Prologue 29, no.1 (Spring 1997): 52-61.
    RG048/RG059/RG134/RG229/RG234/RG241/RG336/RG399/Donated Materials

  65. Post, Robert C. "'Liberalizers' versus 'Scientific Men' in the Antebellum Patent Office." Technology and Culture 17, no.1 (January 1976): 24-54.
    RG167/RG241

  66. Potter, Constance. "De Smet, Dakota Territory, Little Town in the National Archives." Prologue 35, no.4 (Winter 2003): 68-75.
    RG027/RG028/RG049/HH Library

  67. Potter, Lee Ann. "Connecting with the Past." Social Education 67, no.7 (November/December 2003): 372-377.
    RG109/RG255/HST Library

  68. Potter, Lee Ann. "OurDocuments.gov." Social Education 66, no.7 (November/December 2002): 390-398.
    RG217/RG241/RG360

  69. Prechtel-Kluskens, Claire. "Documenting the Career of Federal Employees." Prologue 26, no.3 (Fall 1994): 180-185.
    RG027/RG045/RG056/RG085/RG121

  70. Price, Matt. "Roots of Dissent: The Chicago Met Lab and the Origins of the Franck Report." Isis 86, no.2 (June 1995): 222-244.
    RG227/RG326

  71. Rainger, Ronald. "Patronage and Science:Roger Revelle, the U.S. Navy, and Oceanography at the Scripps Institution." Earth Sciences History 19, no.1 (2000): 58-89.
    RG019/RG038/RG039/RG218/RG227

  72. Rasmussen, Nicholas. "Of 'Small Men', Big Science and Bigger Business: The Second World War and Biomedical Research in the United States." Minerva 40 (2002): 115-146.
    RG227

  73. Rasmussen, Nicolas. "Steroids in Arms: Science, Government, Industry, and the Hormones of the Adrenal Cortex in the United States, 1930-1950." Medical History 46, no.3 (2002): 299-324.
    RG227

  74. Reingold, Nathan. "Alexander Dallas Bache: Science and Technology in the American Idiom." Technology and Culture 11, no.2 (April 1970): 163-177.
    RG023

  75. Reinhardt, Carsten. "A Lead Use of Instruments in Science: John D. Roberts and the Adaptation of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance to Organic Chemistry, 1955-1975." Isis 97, no.2 (June 2006): 205-236.
    RG307

  76. Richter, William L. "Tyrant and Reformer: General Griffin Reconstructs Texas, 1865-66." Prologue 10, no.4 (Winter 1978): 224-241.
    RG094/RG105/RG307/RG393

  77. Roland, Alex. "The National Advisory Committee for Aeronaurics." Prologue 10, no.2 (Summer 1978): 68-81.
    RG255

  78. Rush, James S., Jr. "War of Attrition: Textual Records Relating to The Environment in the National Archives - Arizona, a Case Study." Agricultural History 66, no.2 (Spring 1992): 331-338.
    RG027/RG057/RG115/RG267

  79. Ryan, Mary C. "Aviation Records Take Flight at NARA: The First Twenty-Five Years." Prologue 35, no.4 (Winter 2003): 20-29.
    RG018/RG021/RG023/RG024/RG026/RG027/RG028/RG038/RG045/RG046/
    RG063/RG064/RG072/RG080/RG094/RG106/RG111/RG120/RG125/RG153/
    RG165/RG167/RG181/RG217/RG233/RG237/RG241/RG255/RG287/RG306/
    RG342/RG428

  80. Schatzberg, Eric. "Ideology and Technical Choice: The Decline of the Wooden Airplane in the United States, 1920-1945." Technology and Culture 35, no.1 (January 1994): 34-69.
    RG018/RG072/RG255/RG342

  81. Schneider, Richard E. "An Expanded View: Panoramic Photographs at the National Archives." Prologue 29, no.3 (Fall 1997): 244-254.
    RG032/RG075/RG092/RG151/RG165/RGRG241/NARA photos

  82. Slotten, Hugh Richard. "'Rainbow in the Sky': FM Radio, Technical Superiority, and Regulatory Decision-Making." Technology and Culture 37, no.4 (October 1996): 686-720.
    RG167/RG173

  83. Slotten, Hugh Richard. "Radio Engineers, the Federal Radio Commission, and the Social Shaping of Broadcast Technology: Creating 'Radio Paradise.'" Technology and Culture 36, no.4 (October 1995): 950-986.
    RG040/RG167/RG173

  84. Strum, Harvey. "Eisenhower's Solar Energy Policy." Public Historian 6, no.2 (Sprimg 1984): 37-50.
    RG307/DDE Library

  85. Strum, Harvey. "The Association for Applied Solar Energy/Solar Energy Society, 1954-1970." Technology and Culture 26, no.3 (July): 571-578.
    RG307/DDE Library

  86. Tuttle, William M. "The Birth of an Industry: The Synthetic Rubber 'Mess' in World War II." Technology and Culture 22, no.1 (January 1981): 35-67.
    RG122/RG179/RG227/RG227/RG234/FDR Library

  87. Uselding, Paul. "Elisha K. Root, Forging and the 'American System.'" Technology and Culture 15, no.4 (October 1974): 543-568.
    RG241

  88. Van Splunter, Jacob M. "Strategic Minerals and Decolonization: The United States and Great Britain versus the Netherlands, 1945-1951." International History Review 17, no.3 (August 1995): 485-511.
    RG059/RG077/RG084/RG227/RG469/HST Library

  89. VanDereedt, John K. "Maritime Records in the National Archives: Civil Archives Division, 1789-1900." National Genealogical Society Quarterly 76, no.1 (March 1988): 52-66.
    RG026/RG027/RG036/RG041/RG059/RG084

  90. Villa, Brian Loring. "The Atomic Bomb and the Normandy Invasion." Perspectives in American History 11, no. (1977-1978): 461-502.
    RG107/RG218/RG227/RG319/RG374/FDR Library

  91. Vincenti, Walter G. "The Davis Wing and the Problem of Airfoil Design: Uncertainty and Growth in Engineering Knowledge." Technology and Culture 4, no.27 (October 1986): 717-758.
    RG018/RG255

  92. Wallace, Anthony F. C., and David J. Jeremy. "William Pollard and the Arkwright Patents." William and Mary Quarterly 34, no.3 (July 1977): 404-425.
    RG059/RG241

  93. Warner, Deborah Jean. "At the Sign of the Quadrant -- The Navigational Instrument Business in America to the Civil War." American Neptune 46, no.4 (Fall 1986): 258-263.
    RG023

  94. Wheeler, David L. "Winter on the Cattle Range: Western Kansas, 1884-1886." Kansas History 15, no.1 (Spring 1992): 2-17.
    RG027

  95. Wilson, Glen P. "Lyndon Johnson and the Legislative Origins of NASA." Prologue 25, no.4 (Winter 1993): 362-373.
    RG079/RG080/RG255/RG306/DDE Library/LBJ Library

  96. Zachary, G. Pascal. "Vannevar Bush Backs the Bomb." Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 48, no.10 (December 1992): 24-31.
    FDR Library/RG077/RG227

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