Guide to the James L. Adams Papers SC0949
Note
Biographical/Historical Sketch
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Papers, 2009-162 Accession ARCH-2009-162
VTSS Program Materials Misc.:
1970-98 [articles, correspondence, clippings, publications, etc; includes 1970 program proposal]
Creative problem solving courses:
ME 214, 1970
MS&E 277, 2001
Quality course, 1990-91
Cons. Mind and Memory Oct. 1
Cog. Spec. Oct 6
IE 101/201 (many folders)
IE 201 1998 student reports
IE 201 misc. photos
Creative problem solving courses(cont.):
IE 101/201 files 1978-82
ME 121 Student papers 1999
IE 201/ME223 Student papers 1993 (several folders)
Misc. student papers 1978-84
VTSS Program Materials Misc. (cont.):
Adams 1986-87 (re $)
Proposals in response to Questionnaire
Program in VTSS
VTSS Office Administration
Misc. - $ (rumors)
VTSS faculty plans
MIT – Kaysen 1983
VTSS Administrative Committee
Stanford Program in Values, Technology, Science and Society [packet of publications, etc.]
VTSS Program Materials Misc. (cont.):
Info on S.U. faculty interest in VTSS issues
Princeton trip [articles re medieval masons]
Budget stuff
Senior Survey
IDM Review Committee 1987
List of interested faculty from 1983 Questionnaire
VTSS / E. Traugott
VTSS administrative
Misc. Business 1989-90
[VTSS miscellany]
[Assorted articles]
Robert Textor, "High Tech Bibliography" Version I, May 1989
UG courses:
IE 100 (3 files; may need to be reviewed for confidential student records)
ME-9, 1959-60
ME 107, 1969-70
ME 115A, 1969-70
E9, 1968-69
E-11, 1971-72
UG courses (cont.):
E-114 1971-72
E-1 Intro to Eng., 1976-84 (several folders)
E-1 – E6 1992 (several folders)
ME 121 1998-99 (several folders)
VTSS 115
ME 114A 1967-68
E-1 Mfg. Assignments 1980
E-1 Mfg. Assignments 1983
E-1 pre-1991
E-1/VTSS 51 1993
E-1/VTSS 51 1991
E-1/VTSS 51 1992
E-1 Mfg. Assignments 1992
E-1, 6 History slides
Quality course:
ME/IE 214 assorted files, 1992-2001
1 file of photographs (class projects?)
1 file of correspondence re Adams' book publication, 1967-69
Quality course (cont.):
ME/IE 214 assorted files, 1992-94
ME 314 assorted files 2007-2008
ME 216A file
VTSS 116 War & Technology
Assorted files 1990-1998
VTSS 51-52-53 Sloan Course:
Early Work & Funding
Master copy VTSS 51-52-53 Reader
Assignments, etc., 1986-89
Miscellaneous (includes 2 photos)
VTSS 51, 1991
Course evaluations 1985-88 (3 folders)
VTSS-53 projects (photographs)
Hechinger, "The Meaning of Life" (essay on a lecture by Bob Osserman on topology and abstract manifolds), 1987
PEW Grant expense materials, 1986
Schedules and Readings (4 folders)
Slide and illustrations
Resource material (2 folders)
VTSS 51-52-53 Sloan Course (cont.):
Resource materials (3 folders)
Correspondence, 1982-84, and Sloan essay, 1984
Sloan grants
Sloan – Quant. Literary – New liberal arts
Sloan / MIT activities
Sloan miscellaneous (3 folders)
Sloan "stuff"
Sloan / Quant. Thinking
New Liberal Arts Conference 1987
New Liberal Arts – assorted syllabi
Sloan miscellaneous (3 folders)
VTSS 51 [course binder, now in folder]
VTSS 51-52-53 Sloan Course (cont.):
VTSS 52 course binder
VTSS 53 course binder
VTSS 53 reader and handouts [binder] 1988-89
VTSS 51 reader and handouts [binder] 1988
VTSS 52 course binder
Miscellaneous graduate courses:
ME214
ME224
ME219A (includes photos)
Braille machine
Engineering School miscellaneous:
1967 Study
Writing & Speaking program 1970s
Far Out Stuff
Foreign Student Task Force
Sch of Engineering Directory 1973-74
Tau Beta Pi Teaching Survey Winter quarter 1975-76
Teaching Improvement Guide School of Engineering 1978
[Unlabelled - Loose materials]
Undergraduate Curriculum
Ellen Nold – Communications project 1979-80
Colored Billets
Course enrollments 1977-78
Manpower Stuff [faculty billets]
Planning
First Cut, 5 year plan stuff
School of Engineering Faculty & Resource Guide 1994-95 and 1997-98
School of Engineering Facts 1993-94
Academic Goals 1960-70 [includes older materials from 1940s and a photo of Dr. Nicholas Minorsky]
Engineering School miscellaneous (cont.):
Curriculum Committee, School of Engineering, minutes and correspondence 1925-46 [bound volume]
Manufacturing Study, memos, etc. 1993-95
Manufacturing Study, Adv. Board presentation slides
Manufacturing Study [assorted materials, several folders]
Assorted reports, plans, studies [not in folders]
Loose materials
JLA – viewgraphs
Grading information
Percent of teaching per quarter 1978-79
Statistics compiled for Pajaro retreat, Spring 1977-78
Slots [billets] Sch. Of Engineering
National Conference for Deans of Business and Engineering Proceedings Dec. 1-3, 1980
Assorted SU and Engineering publications
Engineering School miscellaneous (cont.):
Card file: resource file on information related to improving teaching and learning experiences
Mechanical Engineering Design Division:
Reorganization (memo and notes)
Photographs (mostly student projects) 1970-74 and undated
Design Division brochures and publications
Loose materials
Memo: "To the Faculty of the Design Division" from graduate students, undated
Mechanical Engineering division publications, 1992-97 and undated
Braille Machine – prints, copy 2
Design: class miscellany
Esalen etc.Winter 1967
Adams to Arnold on teaching of product design, 1960
Mexico 1975
Dreyfuss article, final, 1991
Integration of Creativity into the Mechanical Engineering Curriculum: reader and syllabus, 1989
Mfg. Course proposal 1991
The Design Academy: cover letter and summary 2002
Photographs, including those from First Design Div. Esalen weekend
Rotary Refuse Reducer Final Layout (drawing) 1970
DD/ME thinking 1995-98
Architecture
[Graduate design courses – folder with memo and design drawings 1973]
Photographs from a project
Center for Innovation at Stanford University
Stanford publications, miscellaneous
Miscellaneous class materials, correspondence
Non-Stanford publications
Industrial Engineering:
Photographs (events and people) undated
Report from the Engineering Management Task Force to the Advisory council, Feb. 4, 1993
IE faculty and staff photos
Students [mostly re advisory issues?]
IE stuff (memos, reports and others) 1973-75
People (IEEM faculty and staff)
IE account 1986
IE miscellany and pubs
Progress Report Oct. 15, 1969 NASA Contract NgR 05-020-345
NASA / ASEE Summer Faculty Program in Engineering Systems Design
Final reports:
Synthetic Carbohydrate; an aid to nutrition in the future 1972
Wildland Fire Management (2 volumes) 1973
Engineering Education and a Lifetime of Learning 1974
Space Settlements, A Design Study 1975
Air Improvement Recommendations for the San Francisco Bay Area 1970
Design Study of a Metropolitan Air Transit System MAT 1969
Planning for Airport Access; an analysis of the San Francisco Bay Area 1977
Project Cyclops, a design study of a system for detecting extraterrestrial intelligent life 1971
Moonlab; preliminary design of a manned lunar laboratory 1968
The SAINT Project; preliminary design of an international satellite communication system 1967
Assorted proposals, reports, booklets on the Program, 1966-76
Publicity file
News articles
Moonlab - draft report
Engineering Education and a Lifetime of Learning - draft report
Unlabeled file of tables, illustrations
US-USSR Marx Exploration Initiative – 2 items 1991
Stanford – Jet Propulsion Laboratory:
Stanford-JPL interaction (correspondence and other materials) 1959-60
JPL papers
JPL talks
JPL educational
[folder of loose materials]
Miscellaneous publications on missiles, rockets, etc.
Proceedings of the 3rd Aerospace Mechanisms Symposium, Held at the JPL, May 23-24, 1968
Stanford Miscellany:
Ad Hoc Faculty Information Committee 1968-69
CTTL committee 1995-98
Assorted publications
Memos, clippings, and other items
San Jose Tech Center (The Tech Center):
High Technology Science Center 1984
Expo '85 Japan (mostly pubs)
The Tech Center – assorted correspondence, memos, newsletters etc. (3 folders)
James Adams' Correspondence / chron files:
Correspondence Sept. 1966 – Aug. 1967
Correspondence Sept. 1967 – Aug. 1968
Correspondence Sept. 1968 – Aug. 1969
Correspondence Sept. 1969 – Aug. 1970
Correspondence Sept. 1970 – July 1971
Correspondence Sept. 1971 – Aug. 1972 (1 of 2)
Correspondence Sept. 1971 – Aug. 1972 (2 of 2)
Correspondence Aug. 1972 – Aug. 1973
Correspondence Aug. 1973 – May 1974
Correspondence 1974-75
Correspondence 1975
Correspondence 1976 #1
Correspondence 1975-76 #2
Correspondence 1976-77 #1
Correspondence 1977 #2
Correspondence 1977 #3
Correspondence 1978 #1
Correspondence 1979
Correspondence Jan. 16, 1978 – Nov. 26, 1979
Correspondence Jan. 17, 1980 – June 26, 1980
Correspondence July 1, 1980 – Nov. 11, 1980
Correspondence Nov. 11, 1980 – June 23, 1981
Correspondence June 25, 1981 – March 31, 1982
Correspondence 1982
Correspondence 1983
Correspondence Jan. 3 – July 9, 1984
Correspondence 1984-85
Correspondence 1985-86
James Adams' Correspondence as Assoc. Dean:
Correspondence Oct. 1975 – June 1976
Correspondence Oct. 1975 – April 1977
Correspondence Aug. 1976 – Nov. 1977
Stanford publications with entries by Adams marked
Non-Stanford publications with entries by Adams marked
Adams, Space Technology. Volume II Spacecraft Mechanical Engineering (NASA)
NASA Technical Notes D-1211 and D-1351 by Adams (Effects of the Time Lag due to Long Transmission Distances)
Adams, Spacecraft Engineering. Space Technology Summer Institute, California Institute of Technology June 1964
Adams, Space Systems Engineering. Space Technology Summer Institute, UCLA June 1965
APA talk – program and notes 1967
Adams, assorted reprints and articles
Original newspapers and photocopies of news clippings
Addenda, 2022-069. Audiovisual Materials Accession ARCH-2022-069
IE 201 #1 1_01 1998 March 31
IE 201 #2 1_02 1998 April 02
IE 201 #3 1_03 1998 April 07
IE 201 #4 1_04 1998 April 09
IE 201 #5 1_05 1998 April 14
IE 201 #6 1_06 1998 April 16
IE 201 #7 1_07 1998 April 21
IE 201 #8 1_08 1998 April 23
IE 201 #9 1_09 1998 April 28
IE 201 #10 1_10 1998 April 30
IE 201 #11 1_11 1998 May 05
IE 201 #12 1_12 1998 May 12
IE 201 #13 1_13 1998 May 14
IE 201 #14 1_14 1998 May 19
IE 201 #15 1_15 1998 May 21
IE 201 #16 1_16 1998 May 26
IE 201 #17 1_17 1998 May 28
IE 201 #18 1_18 1998 June 02
ME 214 #2 1_19 1998 January 08
ME 214 #3 1_20 1998 January 13
ME 214 #4 1_21 1998 January 15
ME 214 #5 1_22 1998 January 20
ME 214 #6 1_23 1998 January 22
ME 214 #7 1_24 1998 January 27
ME 214 #8 1_25 1998 January 29
ME 214 #9 1_26 1998 February 05
ME 214 #10 1_27 1998 February 10
ME 214 #11 1_28 1998 February 12
ME 214 #12 1_29 1998 February 19
ME 214 #14 1_30 1998 February 26
ME 214 #15 1_31 1998 March 03
ME 214 #16 1_32 1998 March 10
ME 214 #17 1_33 1998 March 12
The Big Picture: Part 3 1_34 1997 November
Musical Composition: Part 4 1_35 1997 November
Musical Composition: Part 5 1_36 1997 November
Alumni Day Conf. Part 1 1_37
Alumni Day Conf. Part 2 1_38
Alumni Day Conf. Part 3 1_39
ME 103 #6 2_01 1973 April 19
ME 103 #7 2_02 1973 April 24
ME 103 #11 2_03 1973 May 17
ME 103 #13 Part 1 2_04 1973 May 24
ME 103 #13 Part 2 2_05 1973 May 24
ME 103 #14 2_06 1973 May 29
ME 103 #15 2_07 1973 May 31
ME 103 #16 2_08 1973 June 05
ME 103 #17 Part 1 2_09 1973 June 07
ME 103 #17 Part 2 2_10 1973 June 07
Addenda, 2022-069. Papers Accession ARCH-2022-069
Tau Beta Pi Teaching Survey Part 1 1976-1978
Tau Beta Pi Teaching Survey Part 2 1978-1980
Course Guides 1968-1976
Course Evaluations 1980-1990
Teaching Improvement Guide 1978
Delegate List 1985 February 10
Chapter 1: Creativity and Change 1985 February 10
Chapter 2: Habit in Problem Solving 1985 February 10
Chapter 3: The Equipment 1985 February 10
Chapter 4: Memory 1985 February 10
Chapter 5: Emotional and Cultural Constraints 1985 February 10
Chapter 6: Reward Systems 1985 February 10
Chapter 7: Resources for Creativity and Change 1985 February 10
Chapter 9: Decision Making, Communication, and Education 1985 February 10
Chapter 10: Tactics for Creativity and Change 1985 February 10
Chapter 11: Strategy, Creativity, and Change 1985 February 10
12 Chapters of New Direction 1986 September 23
#5 Units of the Pysch
Chapter Notes
Chapter 7 Materials
Addenda, 2022-021 Accession ARCH-2022-021
James Adams - CB 4 CH1 1998
James Adams - CB 4 CH2 1998
James Adams - CB 4 CH3 1998
James Adams - CB 4 CH4 1998
James Adams - CB 4 CH5 1998
James Adams - CB 4 CH6 1998
James Adams - CB 4 CH7 1998
James Adams - Articles / Media Circ. 1986 (1 of 3) 1985
James Adams - Articles / Media Circ. 1986 (2 of 3) 1985
James Adams - Articles / Media Circ. 1986 (3 of 3) 1985
James Adams - Transparencies and Slides
James Adams - Transparencies
James Adams - Patent Information 1991-1994
James Adams - the New Liberal Arts 1993
James Adams - Stanford Mechanical Engineering 2012
James Adams - Product Realization Lab 1988
James Adams - General Files 1988
James Adams - Various Papers
James Adams - BA 246.16 Course Syllabus NA
James Adams - VTS 1985
Milne, ME Thesis 1991
James Adams - Old Course Grades 1995
James Adams - Miscellanous Correspondence 1980-2000
James Adams - Nasa research in Remote Control Proposals and Reports 1968-1969
James Adams - Nasa research in Remote Control Proposals and Reports 1970-1974
James Adams - VTSS 53 1985-86
James Adams - VTSS 51 (1 of 2) 1988
James Adams - VTSS 51 (2 of 2) 1988
James Adams - VTS 51, 52, 53 (1 of 2) 1989
James Adams - VTS 51, 52, 53 (2 of 2) 1989
James Adams - VTS 51, 52, 53 (1 of 2) 1985-1986
James Adams - VTS 51, 52, 53 (2 of 2) 1985-1986
JA - Moolan papers 1969
James Adams - Stanford Summer Alumni College 1976
Publishing for Conceptual Blockbusting 1980-2019
Copyedited version of Conceptual Blockbusting (book) 2019
Completed version of Conceptual Blockbusting (book) 2019
Magazines 1972-1989
Generational Gap in Engineering 1970
Prinouts 1972-1986
Management of Creativity and Change (book)
Writing Notes
Various Speeches
Stanford Publishing Course 31929
Various Pamphlets 1975-1984
Puzzles and Problem Solving 1978-1994
Undergratuate Council, School of Engineering 1968-1970
Aesthetics, Economics, and Ethics 1987
Random (Engineering)
Random
The Carbon System 1977
C + F Proofs (1 of 2) 1987
C + F Proofs (2 of 2) 1987
Thank you notes 1966-1992
Chile/Corfo Papers 2014
STS Program Committee 1996-1998
VTSS 52 1989-1990
VTSS 53 1989-1990
Misc. Writing 1982
Care and Feeding Figures Etc 1986
misc stff 1986
Design Projects
book stuff 91-92 and 94-96
social psychology 1992
Panama 2000
Hobbies 2015-2018
Review Copies / Direct mail Memo 1992
Sloan Essay 1984
talks Etc 1984
CB Multimedia 1989
Numbers Book 1988
Continued Blockbusting 1974
Flying Buttress Book 1992
Addison Wesley Corres. and agreements 1992
W.W. Nortion Company 1992
Essays and Responses 1982-1983
Media and Misc. 1993 - 1996
Heilbroner - Human Prospectus 1991
Submitted Norton Manuscript 1997
Norton Book Howard Edit 1996
"Stuff" on Industrial Design and Architecture 1979-1989
Talks, Post-Intellectual 1990-2017
Old Manuals (1 of 3)
Old Manuals (2 of 3)
Old Manuals (3 of 3)
Personal Letters
John Graham Masters thesis 1977
Miscellaneous Notes 1967
Papers 1971-1975
Correspondence 1975-1990
Publications
Book information 1989, 2018
Book information
VTSS Stuff 1986
James Adams Printouts
James Adams Personal
Unknown James Adams Book
Larger Papers
Mixed Media (newspapers and magazines)
Jim Adams in school 1954
Miscellaneous Correspondence
NASA Training Grant 1976 - 1979
Book Royalty Statements 2017-2018
Conceptual Blockbusting Book Stuff 1986-2018
James Adams - Miscellanous
Letters of Recommendations 1985
Alumni Summer College 1973-1976
NASA Remote Control Contract 1969-1974
Phil. of Design 1976
Documents on Tractors
Old Things
Future Books
Microsoft Coroporation Annual Report 1988
Speeches/Talks and Conferences 1988
AEA/Stanford Executive Institute Class Book 1989
A Collection of Love Poems 1989
Personal Correspondence 1989
Pickle Family Circus 1989
Speeches/Talks and Conferences 1989
Universidad de Santiago Talks 1990
Printouts 1990
Speeches/Talks and Conferences 1990
Sacred Heart Prep Commencement 1990
Speeches/Talks and Conferences 1991
Speeches/Talks and Conferences
SEEP 1991
Speeches/Talks and Conferences 1992
Santa Maria HS Restructuring Grant 1992
Electronic Arts Creativity Audit Report 1992
Creative Problemsolving Video 1992
Stanford Lectures/Guest Lectures 1992
Personal Things 1992
Speeches/Talks and Conferences 1993
Stanford Lectures 1993
Speeches/Talks and Conferences 1994
Creative Problemsolving 1994
Teaching Schedule 1994
James Adams Notes / Organizers
Correspondence / Personal
Magazines and Other Media
Magazines and Other Media
Botany Periods 7 and 8 - Jean cooley
The story of the Thermometer | James Adams 5th Period Science
Newspapers
Bacteria | James Adams 5th period science
Creativity Papers 1958-1988
Complete Papers 1979-1989
Reprints / Annotations
Full-Sized Photos
Smaller Photos
Film
ENG Book Info 1990
Flying Buttress Manuscript and Info 1991
Correspondence with Harvard University Press 1990
Engineering: The Misunderstood Art - Table of Contents / Introduction 1990
Engineering: The Misunderstood Art - Ch.1 1990
Engineering: The Misunderstood Art - Ch.2 1990
Engineering: The Misunderstood Art - Ch.3 1990
Engineering: The Misunderstood Art - Ch.4 1990
Engineering: The Misunderstood Art - Ch.5 1990
Engineering: The Misunderstood Art - Ch.6 1990
Engineering: The Misunderstood Art - Ch.7 1990
Engineering: The Misunderstood Art - Ch.8 1990
Engineering: The Misunderstood Art - Ch.9 1990
Engineering: The Misunderstood Art - Ch.10 1990
Engineering: The Misunderstood Art - Appendices
Hist / Tech. 1984
Transparencies / Diagrams
Photo Order from Stanford Publication Services
UC Berkeley Microfilm 1984
Myers Briggs Type Indicator 1986
NASA Galileo Probe Photos
Nuclear Prinouts (Three Mile Island) 2004-2005
The Disappearing Orange (Book) 2001-2003
David A Garvin Articles 1984-1987
Good Products, Bad Products - Chapters 1-3/Notes 2004
Personal Notes
Old Printouts (oil, war, history)
Academic Papers
Creativitiy and Control 1991
Book Brainstorming/Outline 2004
Engineering: The Misunderstood Art - Annotated Draft (Intro -- Chapter 3) 1989
Engineering: The Misunderstood Art - Annotated Draft (Chapter 4 - 10) 1989
Engineering: The Misunderstood Art - Annotated Draft (Chapter 1 - 7) 1990
Manuscript for Conceptual Blockbusting and related correspondence 1979
Correspondence 1984-1986
Adams Assignment 3 - "Found Poems"
Miscellaneous Manuscript Materials
Correspondence with Addison-Wesley Publishing Company 1986
Publication Agreement - Mechanical Design of Unmanned Space Vehicles 1968
Manuscript: The care and feeding of Ideas
Manuscript: The care and feeding of Ideas
Engineering: The Misunderstood Art - Drafts, Notes, and Correspondence 1990-1991
Heroes, Hustlers, Nerds, and Normals - Drafts and Background Info 2003
Heroes, Hustlers, Nerds, and Normals - Drafts 2004
Heroes, Hustlers, Nerds, and Normals - Clean Copy 2004 November 14
Heroes, Hustlers, Nerds, and Normals - Drafts 2005
General Correspondence
Money, Computations, Etc
James Adams - Personal
Creativity Outlines and Graphics
Papers on Creativity and Brain Activity
MCC Materials 1986
Chapter 1- Conscious Thinking 1986
Stitched Together Notes for Book 1986
MCC Old Preface 1986
MCC Outline and Preface 1986
MCC Chapter 1 - Creativity and Change 1986
MCC Chapter 1(Old 2) - Specialties and Ruts 1986
MCC Chapter 4 (Memory) 1986
MCC Chapter 6 - The right Pot of Gold 1986
MCC Chapter 7 - Resources for Risk 1986
MCC Chapter 8 - Organizational and Management Style 1986
MCC Chapter 9 - Decision-Making, Communication, and Education 1986
MCC Chapter 10 - Tactics for Creativity and Change 1986
MCC Chapter 11 - Strategy of Creativity and Change 1986
Resources on Invention 1993-2000
Europe Seminars 1973
Science and Engineering Publications
A System for Ultrasonically Imaging the HumanHeart - Don Louis Dekker 1973
Miscellaneous Media Articles - Annotated
Dominion Workshop 2008
National Inventors Council 1970
Figures, Drawings, Transparencies, Originals
Brochures from 80's 1980s
Book Reviews 1992
Brochures from 70's 1970's
Talk Stuff and Slides
Brad Parkinson 1991
History of Technology
Spoon Project Materials 1991
Rats and Dots
Steve Kline MS
Correspondence and Other Intersting Things 1968-1980
Line Drawing Exercise and Responses 1991
Correspondence 1980-1992
Creative Living Correspondence 1987
AEA/ Stanford - Executive Institute ClassBook 1990
JLA Biography - P.R. Material 1984
Consulting
Photos
Various Reports
Creative Problem Solving Skit
Report on Long Distance Remote Control, NASA 1961
Design and Engineering Publications
Thirteen: The Flight that Failed - Annotated 1973
Harvard Business Review: Evolution and Revolution as Organizations Grow 1972
Technē: Journal of Technology Studies
Values, Technology, Science 1960 and 1986
Duke University Graduation Exercises 1986
ME 121 - Freshman Seminar Midterm Evaluations
Autumn Quarters Survey Results 1999-2000
Flying Buttress Stuff
Design Graphics
Student Papers for J. Adams 1978/1977
Class Material
Invention and Innovation in the University 1973
Annual Faculty Reports, Various Academic Years
Comunicaciones En Desarrollo de Creatividad 1990-1991
Various Notes
Richard W. Lyman Award - Inaugural Recipient 1983
Jet Propulsion Laboratory 1965
Conceptual Blockbusting Book 1980-1991
M.I.T. Corporation Visiting Comittee 1986-1991
James Adams Biographical Data
Memos 1988
James Adams Talks / Organizers
Invitations 1983-1993
Correspondence 1986-1990
Larry Dumas 2000-2007
Conferences 1987-1990
Stanford Events 1977-1995
Thank You Notes
Good Products, Bad Products - Full Book Printed 2011
GPBP Introduction Drafting 2011
GPBP Drafting - Chapter 1 2011
GPBP Drafting - Chapter 2 2011
GPBP Drafting - Chapter 3 2011
GPBP Drafting - Chapter 4 2011
GPBP Drafting - Chapter 5 2011
GPBP Drafting - Chapter 6 2011
GPBP Drafting - Chapter 7 2011
GPBP Drafting - Chapter 8 2011
GPBP Drafting - Chapter 9 2011
GPBP Drafting - Chapter 10 2011
GPBP Cover Art 2011
Correspondence about GPBP Ideas 2009-2011
Research for GPBP 1999-2011
ME314 Course Reader 2011
McGraw-Hill Professional Author Questionaire 2011
Conceptual Blockbusting Talks 1975
ASEE Talk 1971
Speeches/Talks, Conferences, and Engineering Curriculum 1960-1971
Speeches/Talks and Consulting on Conceptual Blockbusting 1976-1977
Speeches/Talks, Conferences, and Thank you letters 1970-1978
Conceptual Blockbusting Presentation and Projects 1979
Speeches and Seminars 1977-1978
Speeches/Talks, Conferences, and Thank you letters 1979
Notecards
Speeches/Talks, Conferences, and Thank you letters 1980
Speeches/Talks, Conferences, and Thank you letters 1981
Speeches/Talks, Conferences, and Thank you letters 1982
Speeches/Talks, Conferences, and Thank you letters 1983
Speeches/Talks, Conferences, and Thank you letters 1984
Speeches/Talks, Conferences, and Thank you letters 1985
Speeches/Talks, Conferences, and Thank you letters 1987
Permission Letter Copies 1991
Science and Engineering Publications
Full Papers (Miscellaneous scholars)
Articles to James Adams
Conceptual Blockbusting Cover 1990
Fordson's Tractor 1966
ME314 Course Reader GPBP 2006
Return on Innovation 2000
NASA Contractor Report and Technical Notes 1966
Film and Prints from Lab
A.H. Maslow Papers
John E. Arnold Papers
Transparencies and Design Outlines From Class
Correspondence
Design Division 1997-1998
Design graphics
James Adams Letters and Awards 1983
Stanford Engineering Executive Program 1978-1979
Jet Propulsion Laboratory 1994
Assorted Slides / Images
Misc. Talks and Stuff 1995 1995
Misc. Talks and Stuff 1996 1996
Misc. Talks and Stuff 1997 1997
Misc. Talks and Stuff 1998 1998
Misc. Talks and Stuff 1999 1999
Misc. Talks and Stuff 1992 1992
Misc. Talks and Stuff 2000 2000
Engineering: The Misunderstood Art 1989
Flying Buttresses: Contents, Preface, Intro 1989
Flying Buttresses: Chapter 1 1989
Flying Buttresses: Chapter 2 1989
Flying Buttresses: Chapter 3 1989
Flying Buttresses: Chapter 4 1989
Flying Buttresses: Chapter 5 1989
Flying Buttresses: Chapter 6 1989
Flying Buttresses: Chapter 7 1989
Flying Buttresses: Chapter 9 1989
Flying Buttresses: Chapter 10 1989
Flying Buttresses: Chapter 11 1989
Structures and Machines in Urban Society - David P. Billington 1987
Early "Conceptual Blocks"
Drawings and Images Design
Design Talks, Strategies, Outlines, Slides
Papers for J.A. to read (maybe from classes?)
James Adams Correspondence
Photographs
Misc Creativity Slides
Hard Copy - WTO 1999
WTO Talk 1999
Talks and Stuff 1991-1999
Talk Notes and Scribbles
Miscellaneous Media, Conferences, and Correspondence 1968-2002
Photos from JPL Galileo Spacecraft 1992-1993
Various Talks 1990-2002
Slides and Hard copies on Problem Solving and Change 1981-1985
Good Stuff Book 1990-1996
Engineering Book Draft 1987
Poems Printout
Heroes, Hustlers, Nerds, and Normals 2005
Hewlett-Packard Materials
Publication Correspondence for Engineering Book (aka Flying Buttresses...) 1989-1991
Conceptual Blockbusting Materials 1986
Harris Poll on Engineers/Engineering 1998 July
Notes for Talks 1990-2005
Notes
Slides and Hard copies on Innovation and Culture
Correspondence 1991-2006
JPL Environmental Test Facilities
Problem Solving Materials 1987-1990
The Mind Metaphor by Tina L. Seelig 2005 January
Old Prinouts and Newspapers
Workforce and Organization Steering Comm.
Manuals and Reports 1973-1989
Creativity Materials 1973-1995
Photos of Galileo Spacecraft
Photos and Film
Magnetic Tape 1972
Heroes, Hustlers, Nerds, and Normals 2006
Haas School of Business (UC Berkeley) 1993
Miscellaneous Chapters for Unknown Book
Book on Engineering
Management of Creativity and Change (MCC)
MCC - Preface
MCC - Chapter 2
MCC - Chapter 3
MCC - Chapter 4
MCC - Chapter 5
MCC - Chapter 6
MCC - Chapter 9
MCC - Chapter 10
Failure, Risk, and Technology
Human Factors Materials
HHNN Finished Version 2006
Various Talks 1989-2014
DD Stuff
Chapter 3: The Equipment
Chapter 6: Specialization as a Resource
Chapter 7: Overcoming Small Problems in Problem Solving
New Directions Book
Introduction
Chapter 1: Habit
Chapter 2: The Conscious and the Unconcscious
Chapter 3: Specialties and Ruts
Chapter 4: Memory
Chapter 5: The Senses
Chapter 6: Risks and Rewards
Chapter 7: Freud
Chapter 11: Perception of People
Chapter 12: Perception of Problems
Chapter 13: Change in Problem Solving
Chapter 14: Individual Change
Chapter 15: Organizational Change
Chapter 16: Intuitive Decision Making
Chapter 17: Structure in Decision making
Chapter 18: Analytical Decision-Making
Chapter 19: Languages
Chapter 20: Communication Process
Chapter 22: Nature of Creativity
Chapter 23: Creativity Techniques
Chapter 24: Management of Creativity
Chapter 8: Behavioral Psychology
Chapter 9: Other Psychologies
Chapter 10: Perception of Things
Visual Drawings
Book Miscellaneous
Care and Feeding of Ideas (Correspondence and Notes) 1989-1990
Flying Buttresses Publishing Agreement and Notes 1990
Engineering Book Chapter 4 1990
Engineering Book Chapter 8 1989
MCC partial Drafts, Annotations, and bibliographies
New Directions / Care and feedings of Ideas Book 1986
Flying Buttresses Books, Materials and Correspondence 1990-1991
Correspondence 1984-1990
Notes
Print-Outs
Magazines 1986
Miyano CNC Turning Centers Manuals and photos
Ford GE and Cygnus Company Manuals
Photos
Problem Analysis
Notes on Decision Analysis
Stanford Magazines 1979-1994
Figures Used in Various Books
Networking 2012
Rialto Photos
Jim at Stanford, Photos, Film, and Retirement Cards 1990-1992
Photos of Jim Adams
Comp Stuff
BMW Papers 1966-1988
Photos of McCormick Daisy Reaper
Homo Sapiens Sapiens 2004 May
Good Products, Bad Products/ME 314 2011
Good Products, Bad Products Publishing Agreement 2011
Good Products, Bad Products Correspondence 2011-2012
Notes, Correspondence, and Photos 2004-2012
The Ford Book of Styling
Engineering Book Chapter 5 Materials 1990
Good Products, Bad Products Materials 2012
Figures, Printouts, and Reviews, of Flying Buttresses, Conceptual Blockbusting, and GPBP
Papers written by Stanford colleagues
Tractor and Military Vehicle Info
Colleagues' Stationary
Class Info 1992-1995
Conceptual Blockbusting Publishing Correspondence 1986-1998
Personal Correspondence 1967-1998
Perseus Publishing Contract 2001
Cards and Notes
VTSS 115 Materials 1987-1988
Photos and Film 1960s-1980
Those Wonderful Old Automobiles by Floyd Clymer 1953
Creativity Conference Materials 2011
Blog Posts 2011-2012
Blog Posts 2013-2014
Blog Posts 2015-2016
List of Books 2017
Websites 2016-2017
Addenda, 2023-134 Accession ARCH-2023-134
Course materials (VTSS 116, ME 203) exams, lecture notes, assigned readings; Mechanical Design and Development of Unmanned Spacecraft by James Adams manuscript, research, and publisher correspondence; professional correspondence; Making, Teaching, and Thinking by James Adams manuscript; assorted manuscripts and drafts; Theodore Riegel thesis; Synectics training programs 1966-2012
Aeronautical/space craft articles, clippings, and journals; James Adams manuscripts and drafts; Sloan Project materials; NASA-ASEE program information and correspondence; MOONLAB 1968 workshop study from NASA-Ames Stanford University periodicals 1944, 1960-1998
Professional correspondence 1984-1987; Stanford Instructional Television Network materials; ME 214 Saturn project materials (includes 2 floppy disks); 2 VHS: Course recordings and presentations 1998 (ME 214) 1998
25 VHS: Course recordings and video presentations (ME 214, IE 214, E 190, IE 201) 1989-1996
38 VHS: Course recordings and video presentations (ME 214, IE 214) 1993-1995
18 VHS: Course recordings and video presentations (IE 201); Executive Briefings, Strategies for the Competitive Edge lectures by James Adams 1993, 1996
31 Mini-cassettes: James Adams lecture recordings; Good Products, Bad Products reader by Jim Adams, 2011 1988-1989, 2011
36 VHS: Course recordings and video presentations (ME 214, E 190, IE 201); tube of integrated circuits 1989-1996
4 VHS: Course recordings and video presentations (E 190, IE 201); 2 Mini-cassettes: course lecture (ME 214), Sophistication in Jazz mix-tape; Slides: James Adams' photography 1989-1993