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Call Number: SC0230
Creator:
Reid, Elliott, 1900-1968.
Title: Elliott Reid papers
Dates: 1924-1966
Physical Description:
4.75 Linear feet
Summary: Correspondence, research notes and drawings, reports, articles, product specifications, commercial publications, photographs,
and other items pertaining to airplanes and aeronautical research, including his research on wings and propellers. There is
correspondence with the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and
aircraft companies such as Boeing, Douglas, Northrop, and Lockheed. Correspondents include Col. Homer A. Boushey, Louis B.
Gratzer, George J. Higgins, E.P. Lesley, G.W. Lewis, Earl C. Popp, L. Prandtl, and D.D. Warner. Collection also includes research
logs and bills from research conducted for Tracerlab, Inc., of Berkeley, 1949-54.
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: specialcollections@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc
Transferred by School of Engineering, 1980 and 1985
This collection is open for research.
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the
Head of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California 94304-6064. Consent
is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission
from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s) or assigns. See: http://library.stanford.edu/depts/spc/pubserv/permissions.html.
Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted to research
and educational purposes.
Elliott Reid Papers (SC0230). Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford,
Calif.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
Professor of aeronautics at Stanford (1929-1965). Reid was the author of APPLIED WING THEORY, 1932, and many technical papers
published by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics.
The papers of Elliot G. Reid, dating from 1924 to 1966, document his research interests in aeronautics and his professional
career at Stanford University. Included in the papers are correspondence, research notes and drawings, reports, articles,
product specifications, commercial publications, and photographs. Research subjects include fundamentals in aerodynamics,
wing sections, complete wings, bodies, internal aerodynamics, propellors, rotors, airplanes, engines, and instruments. There
are correspondence files for the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics (NACA), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
(NASA), and aircraft companies such as Boeing, Douglas, Northrop, and Lockheed. Major correspondents include Col. Homer A.
Boushey, Louis B. Gratzer, George J. Higgins, E.P. Lesley, G. W. Lewis, Earl C. Popp, Ludwig Prandtl, and D. D. Warner. Also
included in the papers are research logs, bills, and travel vouchers from research Reid conducted for Tracerlab, Inc., of
Berkeley, 1949-1954.
The first half of the collection, arranged by numbered subjects, reflects Professor Reid's original arrangement. The second
half was received roughly alphabetized; this order was clarified during processing and several new folders were devised. Paper
clips have been removed and the materials were re-foldered in acid-free folders. His original subject dividers were retained;
a new divider indicating the beginning of the alphabetical files was added.
Boushey, Homer A., Col.
Gratzer, Louis B.
Higgins, George J.
Lesley, Everett Parker.
Lewis, G.W.
Popp, Earl C.
Prandtl, L. (Ludwig), b. 1875.
Reid, Elliott, 1900-1968.
Stanford University. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Faculty.
United States. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics.
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Warner, D.D.
Aeronautics--Research.
Airplanes--Wings.
Engineering drawings.
Photoprints.
Propellers, Aerial.
SELECTED CORRESPONDENTS FROM SUBJECT FILES
Dickey, D.A. (Army Air Force)
Box 2, Folder 17
Gratzer, Louis B.
Box 1, Folder 34
Higgins, George J.
Box 5, Folder 4
Lesley, E. P.
Box 1, Folder 29
Lesley, E. P.
Box 3, Folder 16
Lesley, E. P.
Box 3, Folder 14
Lewis, G.W. (NACA)
Box 1, Folder 31
Monteith, C.N. (Boeing)
Box 5, Folder 4
Popp, Earl C. (Dept. of Commerce)
Box 3, Folder 26
Prandtl, Ludwig
Box 1, Folder 33
Raymond, A.E. (Douglas Aircraft)
Box 5, Folder 4
Sears, William R.
Box 5, Folder 7
Warner, D.D. (Northrop)
Box 4, Folder 5
Alippi, Carlo
Box 4, Folder 16