Guide to the Charles Vincent Litton papers, 1912-1972
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Guide to the Charles Vincent Litton Papers, 1912-1972
Collection number: BANC MSS 75/7 c
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Collection Summary
Collection Title: Charles Vincent Litton Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1912-1972
Collection Number: BANC MSS 75/7 c
Origination: Litton, Charles Vincent, 1904-1973
Extent:
Number of containers: 13 boxes, 6 cartons, 7 oversize folders
Repository: The
Bancroft Library
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Physical Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Abstract: Letters written to Litton and copies of letters by him; notes; notebooks; reports; blueprints and drawings; patents; etc.
concerning vacuum tubes and machinery built by Litton and his various businesses; the operation of the companies; Litton's
theories of physics; and materials related to personal business matters.
Languages Represented:
English
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[Identification of item], Charles Vincent Litton papers, BANC MSS 75/7 c, The Bancroft Library, University of California,
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Biography
Charles Vincent Litton was born, March 13, 1904, in San Francisco, California to Charles A. and Alice J. (Vincent) Litton.
As a boy he had been fascinated with radio—at the age of 12 he had his own "wireless house" in back of his parents' house
in Redwood City-and so, it was not surprising that he went on to study electrical engineering. He received his A.B. from Stanford
University in 1924 and his E.E. in 1925.
After graduation he went to work in the area of the design and building of glass vacuum tubes. First he was a research engineer
at Bell Telephone Laboratories in New York, from 1925 to 1927, and then a development engineer and department head of the
vacuum tube division at Federal Telegraph Company in Palo Alto, California, from 1927 to 1932.
When Federal Telegraph Company left the Bay Area, Litton expanded his "backyard laboratory" in Redwood City and in April,
1932, established Litton Engineering Laboratories. This was the first and the longest lived of the businesses owned by Litton.
All were administered so that his own personal philosophy, policies of operation and ideas were those of the company.
Litton Engineering Laboratories designed and manufactured glassworking machinery and equipment for the manufacture of power
vacuum tubes and became engaged as well in some vacuum tube development work. Their Litton lathe was world-famous. In 1940
they expanded and began to manufacture vacuum tubes to meet wartime demands.
In 1942, while still supervising his own business, Litton went East for two years to help Federal Telephone Company in New
Jersey with the manufacture of a high frequency radar tube.
A fire in November, 1945, destroyed Litton Engineering Laboratories' manufacturing plant and development laboratories. This
precipitated the separation of the vacuum tube phase of the business and its subsequent move to San Carlos, California.
In 1946 this operation became Litton Industries (of California). It handled the vacuum tube development and manufacture in
the microwave field and sold only to the Department of Defense. Litton Engineering Laboratories continued to manufacture glassworking
machinery and equipment.
As the owner of two businesses, he was concerned about the financial situation of his family in the event of his death. He
also wished to be freer to do research and development, rather than being tied down to the running of the businesses. So in
1953, he sold the stock of Litton Industries (of California) to Electro-Dynamics and it became Litton Industries, Inc.
Litton then founded English Mountain Ranch, Inc., to handle ownership of new buildings and real estate and moved Litton Engineering
Laboratories to Grass Valley, California. The business still kept mainly to the production of machinery and equipment but
did turn out some lines of magnetrons.
In 1961 Litton and some of his staff set up another corporation to manage and operate Litton Engineering Laboratories. Litton
was able, once more, to return to research and development. Later he moved to Carson City, Nevada, where he died in 1973.
Scope and Content
The Litton collection came to The Bancroft Library in August, 1974 as a gift of Mrs. Carles V. Litton and family. It consists
of thirteen boxes and six cartons of correspondence and related papers with some material in oversize folders. It includes
letters addressed to Litton; copies of letters written by him; business papers; memos; reports; brochures; clippings; blueprints
and drawings; notebooks; patents; and notes. The papers cover a wide range of subjects including the business operations of
Litton's companies; developments and designs for tubes and machinery; Litton's theories in physics; and personal and family
matters. Included also are family historical materials including a keepsake album, records and letters covering the years
1856 to 1933.
While there is good documentation for the activities of Litton Engineering Laboratories after 1945 there is relatively little
for the period from its founding in 1932 till 1944. There is also little information about Litton's business activities after
1961.
The Key to Arrangement which follows gives more detailed information about the collection.
Boxes 1-10
Letters written to Litton
Scope and Content Note
Includes letters from business associates, employees, firms, government agencies and departments, engineers, physicists, family
and friends relating to the activities of Litton's various companies as well as those with which he was associated, tube developments
and designs, patents, government contracts and theories in physics. Arranged alphabetically. A partial list of correspondents
follows the Key to Arrangement. Unlisted letters are arranged alphabetically in miscellanies preceding each letter of the
alphabet. Unidentified letters are at the end.
Boxes 11-13
Letters written by Litton, 1912-1971
Scope and Content Note
Primarily carbon copies with occasional drafts. No letters for the years 1913-15, 1917-24, 1926-28, 1931-34 and 1970. Arranged
chronologically, with undated letters at the end.
Carton 1
Litton Engineering Laboratories
Scope and Content Note
Minutes, notices, technical notes, reports, orders, manuals and transcripts of telephone conversations covering the business
activities and functioning of Litton Engineering Laboratories. Arranged alphabetically.
Litton Engineering Laboratories, Inc. (of New Jersey)
Litton Industries (of California)
Tube Manufacturing Position, 1951
carton Cartons 1-3
Material relating to tubes
Scope and Content Note
Designs, notes, tests, official reports, drawings, orders for equipment and specifications for various tubes made by Litton
Engineering Laboratories, Litton Industries and other companies with which Litton was associated (i. e., Bell Telephone Laboratories
and Federal Telegraph Company). Arranged chronologically. Blueprints from Litton Engineering Laboratories, Litton Industries
(of California), Federal Telegraph Company and Federal Telephone and Radio Corporation are in Oversize.
Carton 4
Material relating to machinery
Scope and Content Note
Specifications, notes, drawings, blueprints and reports on the design and production of some of the machines built by Litton
Engineering Laboratories. Arranged chronologically.
Patents
Scope and Content Note
Applications, revisions and final forms of patents taken out or applied for by Litton and his associates. Arranged chronologically.
Carton 5
Notebooks
Scope and Content Note
Record books and notebooks containing data and ideas for designs and inventions kept by Litton and Litton Engineering Laboratories.
Arranged chronologically.
Carton 6
Physics Notes
Scope and Content Note
Litton's notes on various aspects of physical phenomena in general and nuclear physics in particular. Include notes for and
manuscript of an unpublished work on the geometry of the universe and notes pertaining to the justification for his belief
in the existence of the ether. Arranged chronologically.
Personal data
Scope and Content Note
Miscellaneous records concerning Litton's travel, finances and consulting work, and short articles by him about his political
beliefs and philosophy. Arranged alphabetically.
Keepsake Album of Alice C. Smith (1856)
Letters of Charles Frederick Allen
Papers re Vincent Property
oversize Oversize
Includes blueprints of tubes and blueprints of equipment and tubes removed from correspondence folders.
Anderson, John Will, 1883-
Anderson, John Zuinglius, 1904-
letter, August 5, 1948
Additional Note
Copy of a letter, Jan. 7, 1946, to him from Currie in Cuthbert B. Currie correspondence folder.
Atherton, Warren Hendry, 1891-
30 letters, 1944-62
Additional Note
Included also, short biography, 1961. Copies of letters, Ap. 25, 1945, Jl. 4, 1945, Jl. 26, 1945, Aug. 5, 1945, Aug. 20, 1945,
Sept. 4, 1945, Feb. 29, 1956 and Ap. 7, 1960, to him in Litton Engineering Laboratories correspondence folder.
Barton, Henry Askew, 1898-
2 letters, 1954 and 1957.
Additional Note
Re American Institute of Physics.
Benedict, Donald Lee, 1916-
Bethlehem Apparatus Company, Inc.
2 telegrams, 1965 and 1966
Additional Note
Mostly about the addition of Litton Engineering Laboratories' glass working machinery to their sales program.
Included also, agreement with Heathway Machinery Co., Ltd. and promotional picture and brochures.
Copies of letters, Jl. 27, 1965, Aug. 12, 1965, Dec. 14, 1965, Dec. 30 1969, Jan. 20, 1966 and Feb. 4, 1966, to Bethlehem
Apparatus Company, Inc. from Heathway Machinery Co., Ltd., in H Miscellaneous correspondence folder.
Blair, Clay Drewry, 1925-
letter, December 19, 1963
letter, September 19, 1958
Brink, David Elbert, 1908-
Brown, Barremore Beverly, 1917-
Buckley, William Frank, 1925-
letter, March 5, 1964.
Additional Note
Re renewal of subscription to National Review.
Burrows, Charles Russell, 1902-
memo, 1946.
Additional Note
Re U. S. Office of Scientific Research and Development
Buttner, Harold Hendry, 1892-
telegram, July 13, 1944
Additional Note
Some re International Standard Electric Corporation. Included also, a short biography, 1961. Drawings mentioned in letters
removed to Oversize.
Copy of a letter, Oct. 19, 1942, and copy of a memo, Nov. 21, 1944, to him in Litton Engineering Laboratories correspondence
folder.
Cassels, Louis Welborn, 1922-
No incoming letters; copy of a letter, Jan. 6, 1948, addressed to him in Litton's outgoing correspondence.
Cattell, Jaques, 1904-1960
letter, October 24, 1947.
Additional Note
Re Litton's inclusion in the Biographical Directory of American Men of Science.
3 letters, 1945-46.
Additional Note
Re the Institute of Ethnic Affairs, Inc.
Condon, Edward Uhler, 1902-1974
letter, March 19, 1955
Additional Note
Included also, an article by him, "A Half-Century of Quantum Physics", 1955.
letter, September 16, 1963
Cornog, Robert Alden, 1912-
Crapuchettes, Paul Wythe, 1917-
note to the files, September 23, 1946
Additional Note
Information about Litton Engineering Laboratories, Litton Industries (of California), and Litton Industries, Inc.
Letter, Ap. 15, 1947, and copy of a letter, May 7, 1948, to him in Federal Telephone and Radio Corporation correspondence
folder.
Copy of a memo, Feb. 1, 1957, and copy of a letter, Mar. 28, 1957, to him in Litton Engineering Laboratories correspondence
folder. Copy of a letter, Jl. 6, 1954, to him from Phinney in Edward D. Phinney correspondence folder.
Letters, Feb. 1, 1949 and Feb. 28, 1949, to him from White in Albert E. White correspondence folder.
5 memos, 1954-65
Additional Note
Re Litton's legal affairs.
Included also, agreement, 1961, and subpoena, 1964, concerning Litton Engineering Laboratories
Copies of letters, Oct. 7, 1963 and May 22, 1964, to him from Lucy Litton in Lucy T. Litton correspondence folder.
Copies of letters, Feb. 28, 1946, Mar. 1, 1956, Ap. 16, 1956, Jl. 23, 1959 and Ap. 22, 1960, to him in Litton Engineering
Laboratories correspondence folder.
Memo, Jan. 5, 1956, to him and others from Moore in Norman H. Moore correspondence folder.
See also Hanning, Frank L. in H Miscellaneous correspondence folder.
Davis, Willard Kenneth, 1918-
Deloraine, Edmond Maurice, 1898-
letter, September 10, 1941
telegram, July 13, 1944
Additional Note
Memo, Ap. 7, 1944, to him in Federal Telephone and Radio Corporation correspondence folder.
Copies of memos, both Dec. 22, 1943, to him in International Standard Electric Corporation correspondence folder.
Dow, William Gould, 1895-
memo, August 3, 1945
Additional Note
Included also, three technical reports on magnetrons, 1950-54.
Copies of letters, May 29, 1945, Je. 14, 1945, Je. 19, 1945, Je. 25, 1945, Jl. 31, 1945 and Sept. 10, 1945, to him in Litton
Engineering Laboratories correspondence folder.
Copies of letters, Mar. 27, 1945 and Mar. 30, 1945, to him in U. S. Office of Scientific Research and Development. National
Defense Research Committee correspondence folder.
Eastham, Melville, 1885-1964
Elliott, Harold Farley, 1892-
letter, July 28, 1954.
Additional Note
Re Grass Valley Hospital.
3 letters, 1958-59
Additional Note
Included also design of seal.
Eurich, Alvin Christian, 1902-
Farquhar, Francis Peloubet, 1887-1974
2 letters, 1948 and 1949.
Additional Note
Re the Sierra Club.
Federal Telegraph Company
11 memos, 1929-30
Additional Note
Included also, personnel lists, etc. from the Tube Laboratory ca. 1930.
Copy of a letter, Aug. 4, 1936, to Federal Telegraph Company in Litton Engineering Laboratories correspondence folder.
Federal Telephone and Radio Corporation
4 telegrams, 1944-51
Additional Note
Included also, miscellaneous material relating to the vacuum tube division, copy of an agreement with Litton and a brochure.
Copy of a letter, Nov. 24, 1947, to Federal Telephone and Radio Corporation from Crapuchettes in Paul W. Crapuchettes correspondence
folder.
Copies of letters, Nov. 23, 1942, Nov. 20, 1944, Nov. 23, 1944, Nov. 24, 1944, Dec. 15, 1944, May 10, 1945, May 24, 1945,
Oct. 10, 1945, Dec. 7, 1945, Jan. 31, 1946 and Nov. 7, 1946, to Federal Telephone and Radio Corporation in Litton Engineering
Laboratories correspondence folder.
Copies of letters, Ap. 13, 1949, Dec. 18, 1950, Feb. 21, 1951, Mar. 17, 1951, Ap. 3, 1951, Nov. 21, 1952 and Feb. 16, 1953,
to Federal Telephone and Radio Corporation in Litton Industries (of California) correspondence folder.
Copies of letters, Oct. 11, 1950, Nov. 21, 1952 and Feb. 16, 1953, to Federal Telephone and Radio Corporation from Moore in
Norman H. Moore correspondence folder.
Enclosure to letter, Je. 24, 1943, in U. S. Office of Scientific Research and Development. National Defense Research Committee.
Vacuum Tube Development Committee correspondence folder is a copy of a letter to Federal Telephone and Radio Corporation from
Isadore I. Rabi.
See also, Wing, Arthur K.
28 letters, 1938-44
Additional Note
Included because of information on patents applied for by Litton.
Copies of letters, May 27, 1939, Je. 7, 1939 and Je. 19, 1939, to him from Gertrude Litton in Gertrude M. S. Litton correspondence
folder.
Forrestal, James, 1892-1949
Fuller, Leonard Franklin, 1890-
16 letters, 1930
Additional Note
Copy of a letter, Ap. 14, 1930, to him from Ports in Earl G. Ports correspondence folder.
Copy of a letter, Mar. 9, 1968, to him from Pratt in Haraden Pratt correspondence folder.
Gaylord, Robert March, 1888-
7 letters, 1932-60
Additional Note
Magnetron blueprints in Oversize.
Copy of a letter, Ap. 6, 1945, to General Electric Companies' Research Laboratory from Dow in William G. Dow correspondence
folder.
Copies of letters, Aug. 4, 1936, Aug. 4, 1936, Aug. 4, 1936, Aug. 4, 1936, Dec. 27, 1944, Jan. 4, 1945, Mar. 13, 1945, May
8, 1945, May 8, 1945, May 26, 1945, Je. 13, 1945, Je. 13, 1945, Je. 16, 1945, Je. 23, 1945, Jl. 4, 1945, Jl. 20, 1945, Jl.
21, 1945, Jl. 26, 1945, Aug. 6, 1945, Aug. 6, 1945, Aug. 10, 1945, Aug. 23, 1945, Aug. 23, 1945, Sept. 8, 1945, Sept. 21,
1945, Sept. 24, 1945, Sept. 26, 1945, Sept. 27, 1945, Oct. 25, 1945, Dec. 19, 1945, Dec. 31, 1956 and May 10, 1960, to General
Electric Company in Litton Engineering Laboratories correspondence folder.
Copies of letters, Ap. 10, 1952, Je. 23, 1954, Jl. 30, 1954 and Aug. 4, 1954, to General Electric Company from Moore in Norman
H. Moore correspondence folder.
See also Tonks, Lewi.
Ginzton, Edward Leonard, 1915-
Green, Cecil Howard, 1900-
13 letters, 1949-65
Additional Note
Included also, programs for the dedication of the Cecil and Ida Green Building at M. I. T., 1964.
Copy of a letter, Mar. 25. 1959, to him in Litton Engineering Laboratories correspondence folder.
Harrison, Arthur Elliot, 1908-
Haynes, Gilman Ballard, 1923-
Hickman, Roger Wayne, 1900-
Hoover, Herbert Clark, 1903-
No incoming letters; copy of a letter to him from Green in Cecil H. Green correspondence folder.
Induction Heating Corporation
12 letters, 1944-46
Additional Note
Included also, various drawings etc. re induction vacuum equipment.
Copy of a letter, Jan. 24, 1945, and telegram, Aug. 20, 1945, to Induction Heating Corporation in Litton Engineering Laboratories
correspondence folder.
Industrial and Commercial Electronics
memo, [November 1943]
Additional Note
Included also, minutes of meetings and financial reports for 1943 and 1944.
Copy of a letter, Nov. 16, 1943. to Industrial and Commercial Electronics from Gertrude Litton in Gertrude M. S. Litton correspondence
folder.
Copy of a letter, Dec. 3, 1945, to Industrial and Commercial Electronics from Washburn in Harold W. Washburn correspondence
folder.
See also Scofield, Philip F. and Shermund, Ralph.
International Standard Electric Corporation
17 memos, 1942-45
Additional Note
Included also, bill of sale for equipment sold to them by Litton, 1939.
Copies of letters, Oct. 14, 1942, Jan. 18, 1945 and Oct. 23, 1945, to International Standard Electric Corporation in Litton
Engineering Laboratories correspondence folder.
See also Buttner, Harold H. and Phinney, Edward D.
International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation
3 telegrams, 1948
Additional Note
Re patents.
Copy of a letter, May 8, 1952, to International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation in Litton Industries (of California) correspondence
folder.
Copies of letters, Jan. 31, 1955, Mar. 11, 1955, Mar. 11, 1955, Mar. 11, 1955, Mar. 14, 1955, Je. 14, 1955 and Aug. 9, 1955,
to International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation in Litton Industries, Inc. correspondence folder.
Copies of letters, Sept. 10, 1952, Mar. 28, 1953, Jl. 21, 1953 and Dec. 11, 1953, to International Telephone and Telegraph
Corporation from Moore in Norman H. Moore correspondence folder.
See also Phinney, Edward D.
13 letters, 1957-61
Additional Note
Copy of a letter, Ap. 30, 1959, to him in Litton Engineering Laboratories correspondence folder.
Knight, Goodwin Jess, 1896-1960
Kohl, Walter Heinrich, 1905-
5 letters, 1955-57
Additional Note
Included also, four papers by him on seals, etc., 1955-57.
Kurie, Franz Newell Devereux, 1907-
Lanphier, Charles Henry, 1919-
Larson, Robert William, 1900-
2 letters, 1950 and n. d.
Lawrence, Ernest Orlando, 1901-1958
Litton, Gertrude M. S. (first wife)
Memo, [Nov. 1943], to her in Industrial and Commercial Electronics correspondence folder.
Litton, Lucy T. (second wife)
Litton Engineering Laboratories
76 memos, 1942-57 & n. d.
18 telegrams, 1943-60
Additional Note
Copy of a letter, May 5, 1945, to Litton Engineering Laboratories from Backer in Lyle A. Backer correspondence folder.
Letter, Mar. 11, 1943, and telegram, Jl. 13, 1944, to Litton Engineering Laboratories from Buttner in Harold H. Buttner correspondence
folder.
Copy of a letter, Je. 15, 1961, to Litton Engineering Laboratories from Currie in Cuthhert B. Currie correspondence folder.
Enclosures to letter, Jan. 7, 1946, in Cuthbert B. Currie Correspondence folder are copies of letters to and from Litton Engineering
Laboratories.
Copy of a letter, Aug. 3, 1945, to Litton Engineering Laboratories from Dow in William G. Dow correspondence folder.
Letters, Nov. 28, 1944 and Jan. 25, 1945, copy of a letter, Aug. 7, 1945, telegrams, May 17, 1944 and Jl. 12, 1944, to Litton
Engineering Laboratories in Federal Telephone and Radio Corporation correspondence folder.
Letter, Sept. 16, 1932, to Litton Engineering Laboratories in General Electric Company correspondence folder.
Letters, Dec. 19, 1944 and Feb. 3, 1945, to Litton Engineering Laboratories in Induction Heating Corporation correspondence
folder.
Letters, Jl. 13, 1944, Aug. 9, 1944 and Aug. 14, 1945, to Litton Engineering Laboratories in International. Standard Electric
Corporation correspondence folder.
Copy of a letter, Sept. 18, 1956, and letter, Nov. 20, 1958, to Litton Engineering Laboratories in Litton Industries, Inc.
correspondence folder.
Letters, May 9, 1944 and Dec. 4, 1944, to Litton Engineering Laboratories from Phinney in Edward D. Phinney correspondence
folder.
Letter, Jl. 16, 1957, to Litton Engineering Laboratories from Samuel in Arthur L. Samuel correspondence folder.
Letter, Nov. 1, 1945, to Litton Engineering Laboratories from Tonks in Lewi Tonks correspondence folder.
Copies of letters, Jl. 18, 1944, May 15, 1945, Nov. 23, 1945, Dec. 27, 1945, May 10, 1946, May 14, 1946, May 20, 1946, Je.
10, 1946, Je. 28, 1946 and Sept. 18, 1945, to Litton Engineering Laboratories in U. S. Office of Scientific Research and Development
correspondence folder.
Copy of a letter, Aug. 2, 1945, to Litton Engineering Laboratories from Wing in Arthur K. Wing correspondence folder.
See also Crapuchettes, Paul W.
Litton Engineering Laboratories, Inc. (New Jersey)
No incoming letters; copy of a letter, Sept. 6, 1961, to Litton Engineering Laboratories, Inc. (of New Jersey) from Currie in Cuthbert B. Currie correspondence folder.
See also Backer, Lyle A.
Litton Industries (of California)
3 telegrams, 1952
Additional Note
Letters, Dec. 4, 1947, Je. 14, 1949, Je. 28, 1949 and Ap. 9, 1951, to Litton Industries (of California) in Federal Telephone
and Radio Corporation correspondence folder.
Letter, Nov. 12, 1947, to Litton Industries (of California) from Phinney in Edward D. Phinney correspondence folder.
See also Crapuchettes, Paul W. and Moore, Norman H.
memo, July 24, 1956
Additional Note
Included also, miscellaneous reports and releases.
Copies of letters, Nov. 6, 1953, Nov. 13, 1953, Aug. 2, 1954, Aug. 24, 1954, Oct. 27, 1954, Feb. 24, 1955, Feb. 24, 1955,
Mar. 14, 1955, Mar. 16, 1955, Mar. 16, 1955, Ap. 11, 1955, May 2, 1955, Je. 17, 1955, Jan. 25, 1956, Feb. 28, 1956, Je. 22,
1956, Oct. 22, 1956, May 9, 1958 and May 22, 1958, to Litton Industries, Inc. in International Telephone and Radio Corporation
correspondence folder.
Copies of letters, Sept. 9, 1955, Je. 16, 1958, Nov. 17, 1958 and Mar. 3, 1960, and letter, Aug. 18, 1959, to Litton Industries,
Inc. in Lit ton Engineering Laboratories correspondence folder.
See also Crapuchettes, Paul W., Moore, Norman H. and Thornton, Charles B.
Marshall, Lauriston Calvert, 1902-
4 letters, 1951-68
Additional Note
Copies of letters, Aug. 16, 1946, Sept. 5, 1946, Sept. 13, 1946, Nov. 15, 1946 and Dec. 5, 1946, to him from Crapuchettes
in Paul W. Crapuchettes correspondence folder.
Molnar, Julius Paul, 1916-
letter, January 30, 1952
Additional Note
Copy of a letter, Jan. 18, 1952, to him from Moore in Norman H. Moore correspondence folder.
Moore, Norman Hallam, 1918-
telegram, April 3, 1953
Additional Note
Information about Litton Industries (of California) and Litton Industries, Inc. Included also, undated note to him and "Engineering
Vocabulary", 1954.
Copies of memos, Ap. 16, 1953, Nov. 8, 1956 and Nov. 17, 1956, to him from Crapuchettes in Paul W. Crapuchettes correspondence
folder.
Letters, Oct. 18, 1950 and Je. 20, 1952, to him in Federal Telephone and Radio Corporation correspondence folder.
Copies of letters, Jl. 27, 1954 and Jl. 29, 1954, to him in General Electric Company correspondence folder.
Letters, Feb. 13, 1953, Feb. 16, 1953, Ap. 2, 1953, May 1, 1953, Jl. 10, 1953, Nov. 6, 1953 and Dec. 16, 1953, and copies
of letters, Nov. 10, 1953, Jl. 21, 1954, Aug. 16, 1954, Aug. 23, 1954, to him in International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation
correspondence folder.
Letter, Mar. 4, 1952, to him from Wing in Arthur K. Wing correspondence folder.
Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967
Patterson, Robert Porter, 1891-
letter, July 8, 1944
Additional Note
Letter, Jl. 15, 1944, and copies of letters, Mar. 3, 1945 and Sept. 28, 1945, to him in Litton Engineering Laboratories correspondence
folder.
Pettit, Joseph Mayo, 1916-
Phinney, Edward Dana, 1901-
2 telegrams, 1947-48
Additional Note
Some re International Standard Electric Corporation and International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation.
Copy of a memo, Aug. 8, 1942, to him from Buttner in Harold H. Buttner correspondence folder.
Copies of letters, May 5, 1939 and Oct. 26, 1940, to him from Gertrude Litton in Gertrude M. S. Litton correspondence folder.
Enclosure to letter, Ap. 16, 1956, in Litton Engineering Laboratories correspondence folder is a letter from Phinney to C.
V. Litton.
Copies of letters, May 1, 1944, May 4, 1944, Je. 8, 1944, Je. 12, 1944, Jl. 14, 1944, Aug. 19, 1944, Aug. 25, 1944, Aug. 26,
1944, Aug. 30, 1944, Nov. 27, 1944, Mar. 2, 1945, Mar. 19, 1945, Ap. 7, 1945, Je. 7, 1945, Je. 26, 1945, Jl. 16, 1945, Sept.
19, 1945, Sept. 26, 1945, Oct. 16, 1945, Oct. 19, 1945, Oct. 20, 1945, Oct. 23, 1945, Nov. 2, 1945, Dec. 26, 1945, Ap. 10,
1946, Oct. 11, 1946, Jl. 8, 1947 and Ap. 20, 1960, to him in Litton Engineering Laboratories correspondence folder.
Copies of letters, Oct. 16, 1947 and Nov. 26, 1947, to him in Litton Industries (of California) correspondence folder.
Copy of a letter, Jan. 24, 1946, to him in U. S. Office of Scientific Research and Development. National Defense Research
Committee correspondence folder.
Ports, Earl George, 1901-
letter, November 21, 1961
Pratt, Haraden, 1891-1969
2 letters, 1953 and 1968
Additional Note
Copy of a letter, Jan. 27, 1930, to him from Fuller in Leonard F. Fuller correspondence folder.
Rabi, Isadore Isaac, 1898-
3 letters, 1943-44
Additional Note
Copies of letters, Je. 29, 1943 and Sept. 11, 1943, to him from Buttner in Harold H. Buttner correspondence folder.
Enclosure to letter, Je. 24, 1943, in U. S. Office of Scientific Research and Development. National Defense Research Committee.
Vacuum Tube Development Committee correspondence folder is a copy of a letter from him to Federal Telephone and Radio Corporation.
Radford, William Henry, 1909-
Raytheon Manufacturing Company
16 letters, 1935-44.
Additional Note
Some re Litton's patent for a vacuum-tight power transmission device.
Included also, Litton's notes on a model TX pump and the examiners report on Litton's patent application for vacuum-tight
motion transmission devices, 1938.
16 letters, 1962-71
Additional Note
Included also, 13 articles, 1962-64.
Speculation re the existence of an ether and discussion of other theories.
Samuel, Arthur Lee, 1901-
letter, December 17, 1945
Schelleng, John Christopher, 1892-
3 letters, 1946-59.
Additional Note
Some re Industrial and Commercial Electronics.
Copies of letters, Ap. 28, 1941, May 3, 1941 and May 16, 1941, tohim from Shermund in Ralph Shermund correspondence folder.
Sherman, Vernon Wesley, 1907-
3 letters, 1941
Additional Note
Included because of information about the founding, with Litton, of Industrial and Commercial Electronics.
Copy of a letter, Feb. 2, 1946, to him from Scofield in Philip F. Scofield correspondence folder.
Copy of a letter, May 6, 1943, to him in Litton Engineering Laboratories correspondence folder.
Shrock, Robert Rakes, 1904-
letter, November 22, 1965
Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital
5 memos, 1956-68
Additional Note
Included also, miscellaneous materials pertaining to the hospital and its construction, 1956-68.
Copies of letters, Mar. 26, 1946, [1946], Nov. 15, 1956 and [1958], to Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital from U. S. Treasury
Dept. in U Miscellaneous correspondence folder.
Skilling, Hugh Hildreth, 1905-
Smith, Robert Frederick, 1912-
Smullin, Louis Dijour, 1916-
Snow, William Boring, 1903-
letter, September 24, 1961
Spangenberg, Karl Rudolph, 1910-
4 letters, 1949-50 & n. d.
Additional Note
Included also, "Discussion of Long Life Tubes", 1949 and table of contents for book, "Electron Tubes'" both by him.
letter, February 11, 1964
Stockhausen, Karlheinz, 1928-
Suits, Chauncey Guy, 1905-
2 memos, 1944 and 1945
Additional Note
Re U. S. Office of Scientific Research and Development. National Defense Research Committee.
Swann, William Francis Gray, 1884-1962
No incoming letters: copy of a letter, Dec. 10, 1945, to him in Litton Engineering Laboratories correspondence folder.
Tearl, William Henry, 1911-
Terman, Frederick Emmons, 1900-
receipt, February 28, 1945
Additional Note
Included also, publications and programs relating to the 1965 Stanford University convocation honoring him.
Copy of a letter, Ap. 12, 1944, to him from Buttner in Harold H. Buttner correspondence folder.
Copy of a memo, Aug. 3, 1945, to him from Dow in William G. Dow correspondence folder.
Copy of a letter, Je. 27, 1945, to him in U. S. Office of Scientific Research and Development. National Defense Research Committee
correspondence folder.
telegram, October 3, 1956
Additional Note
Included also, five articles by her, 1946-48 and no date.
Copy of a letter, Ap. 13, 1959, to her in Litton Engineering Laboratories correspondence folder.
Thornton, Charles Bates, 1913-
10 letters, 1954-56.
Additional Note
Mostly re Litton Industries, Inc.
Included also, addresses by him, 1955, "Organizing for Industrial Change"" and "Economic and Social Implications of Automation
and Electronics ".
Enclosure to letter, Dec. 4, 1959, in Cuthbert B. Currie correspondence folder is a copy of a letter to him from Currie Enclosure
to letter, Sept. 3, 1954, in I Miscellaneous correspondence folder is a copy of a letter to him from C. S. Irvine.
10 letters, 1945-46.
Additional Note
Re General Electric Company Research Laboratory.
Copy of a letter, Jl. 22, 1946, to him from Crapuchettes in Paul W. Crapuchettes correspondence folder.
Copies of letters, Sept. 19, 1944, Sept. 25, 1944, Sept. 28, 1944, Feb. 6, 1945, Feb. 8, 1945, Feb. 8, 1945, Feb. 12, 1945,
Feb. 21, 1945, Feb. 22, 1945, Ap. 1. 8, 1945, May 30, 1945, Jl. 19, 1945, Jl. 20, 1945, Jl. 26, 1945, Sept. 27, 1945, Oct.
5, 1945, Nov. 5, 1945 and Dec. 7, 1945, to him in Litton Engineering Laboratories correspondence folder.
Turnbull, John Coryell, 1911-
No incoming letters; copy of a letter, Je. 6, 1945, addressed to him in Litton's outgoing correspondence.
Umstattd, William Earle, 1894-
2 letters, 1947 and 1950
Additional Note
Included also, miscellaneous materials dealing with various meetings and the civilian orientation group.
telegram, April 8, 1946
Additional Note
Mostly from the Bureau of Ships and the Inspector of Naval Material.
Copies of letters, Jan. 19, 1945, Ap. 21, 1945, Ap. 23, 1945, Ap. 25, 1945, May 10, 1945, Je. 15, 1945, Jl. 6, 1945, Jl. 20,
1945, Jl. 26, 1945, Aug. 21, 1945, Sept. 10, 1945, Sept. 11, 1945, Sept. 15, 1945, Sept. 21, 1945, Oct. 9, 1945, Oct. 15,
1945, Oct. 25, 1945, Oct. 26, 1945, Dec. 7, 1945, Dec. 10, 1945, Dec. 17, 1945, Dec. 18, 1945, Dec. 22, 1945, Dec. 27, 1945,
Feb. 4, 1946, Feb. 7, 1946, Mar. 13, 1946, Je. 4, 1946, Sept. 20, 1955 and Aug. 31, 1956, and copy of a telegram, Ap. 23,
1956, to U. S. Navy Dept. in Litton Engineering Laboratories correspondence folder.
Copies of letters, Aug. 4, 1953 and Ap. 21, 1954, to U. S. Navy Dept. from Moore in Norman H. Moore correspondence folder.
Copy of a letter, Aug. 23, 1945, to U. S. Navy Dept. from Wing in Arthur K. Wing correspondence folder.
U. S. Office of Scientific Research and Development
memo, December 3, 1945
Additional Note
Included also, three administrative circulars, 1945-46.
Copies of letters, Jan. 19, 1945, Mar. 19, 1945, Aug. 10, 1945 and Aug. 14, 1945, to U. S. Office of Scientific Research and
Development in Litton Engineering Laboratories correspondence folder.
See also Bush, Vannevar
U. S. Office of Scientific Research and Development. NationalDefense Research Committee.
3 memos, 1945
Additional Note
Included also, drawings of piccolo magnetron, 1944, and reunion minutes, 1948.
Copies of letters, Mar. 28, 1945, May 26, 1945, Jl. 23, 1945, Oct. 8, 1945, Oct. 22, 1945, Dec. 8, 1945 and Feb. 21, 1946,
to U. S. Office of Scientific Research and Development. National Defense Research Committee in Litton Engineering Laboratories
correspondence folder.
See also Suits, Chauncey C.
U. S. Office of Scientific Research and Development. National Defense Research Committee. Vacuum Tube Development Committee.
telegram, August 21, 1943
Additional Note
Included also, minutes of meetings, 1943-45.
Washburn, Harold Williams, 1902-
10 letters, 1945-48
Additional Note
Ionization chamber blueprints in Oversize.
See also Consolidated Engineering Corporation in C Miscellaneous correspondence folder.
Watkins, Dean Allen, 1922-
Weymouth, George Tyler, 1904-
4 letters, 1961
Additional Note
Copy of a letter, Jl. 25, 1961, to him from Buttner in Harold H. Buttner correspondence folder.
Enclosure to letter, Jl. 25, 1961, in Harold H. Buttner correspondence folder is a copy of a letter from him to Buttner.
White, Albert Easton, 1884-
11 letters, 1945-53.
Additional Note
Some re Federal Telephone and Radio Corporation.
Copies of letters, Jan. 30, 1945, May 12, 1945, May 24, 1945, Je. 2, 1945, Au. 10, 1945, Aug. 11, 1945, Aug. 13, 1945, Aug.
13, 1945, Aug. 20, 1945 and May 13, 1946, to him and a copy of a memo, Jl. 23, 1945, to him and others in Litton Engineering
Laboratories correspondence folder.
Copy of a letter, Mar. 10, 1952, to him in Litton Industries (of California) correspondence folder.
Copies of letters, Jan. 7, 1952 and May 8, 1953, to him from Moore in Norman H. Moore correspondence folder.
Zworykin, Vladimir Ksoma, 1889-