Inventor Name
Langmuir, Irving
Repository
Library of Congress
Manuscript Division
101 Independence Ave., SE
Washington, DC 20540-4680
202-707-5387
www.loc.gov
Physical Description
32,000 items
Summary
Correspondence, diaries, experimental notebooks, speeches, writings, card reference file, clippings, printed material, awards, photographs, and other papers. The notebooks (1894-1957) contain data which led to the development of the gas-filled incandescent lamp, the high vacuum power tube, atomic hydrogen welding, screening smoke generators for the Armed Forces, and weather control. Includes subject files on research topics such as cloud seeding experiments, smoked bathythermograph records, and charts of Lake George, N.Y. Also includes material pertaining to Langmuir's years, 1903-1906, as a student at Universität Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany. Correspondents include Niels Henrik David Bohr, Vannevar Bush, Leopold Stokowski, and Willis Rodney Whitney.
