Collection Contents

Journal 1986 – 88

Journal 1988 – 92

Journal 1992 – 95

Poems

Music MSS c. 1936 – 37

Correspondence: Borroff, Marie

Correspondence: re. Current Directions in Computer Music Research

Correspondence: re. “Periodicity and Pitch Perception”

Correspondence: re. “Computing Education”

Correspondence: Noll, A. Michael

Honorary degrees

Telephone book

Photos

Computer invoice

Patent for Passive Non-Linear Filter, 1996-97

Pamphlets

Computers in Higher Education – Report, 1967

Gilbert, Steven – "Academic Software – Vision and Perspective; working paper March 15, 1985"

Computer / Human Conversation

Pathological Science – articles

Pierce, “Technology and Music in the 20th Century”

Research: artists on “Edwardian Gents and the Arabs”

Reprint: Pierce, “Ears and Hearing” 1994

Reprint: Pierce, “Periodicity and Pitch Perception” 1991

Studies [assorted articles]

Essays and a story

Cal Tech visit to Soviet Union 1973

NASA Space Committee Research and Development 1987

Vienna conference (Pierce, "The Contribution of Psychophysics to Music and of Music to Psychophysics") 1990

Biographical information

Biographical information

Biographical information ("Miscellaneous, personal, trips and what not" – includes notes from Soviet Union trip of 1973)

Pierce, My Career as an Engineer; An Autobiographical Sketch, 1988

Papers by Pierce

Papers by Pierce

Publications 1981 – 1990

Publications 1991

Publications 1994-97

Publications 1998 – 2003

Publications on J.R. Pierce

Publications – Fiction

Publications – Fiction

Publications – Fiction

Publications – miscellaneous

Amazing Stories, October 1934 [does not include anything by Pierce]

Stories, typescript

Stories, typescript, "The Blues"

Stories, typescript, "Tales of the Twelve Teddies"

Stories, manuscript and typescript

Stories and verse

Verse

Posthumous papers

J.R. Pierce bibliography

"J.R. Pierce Bibliography and much much more, March 26, 1995"

Pierce, bibliography

C.I.T. oral history with J. R. Pierce, 1982

Photographs, 1963-1995

Draper Prize, 1995

Miscellaneous materials

Awards

Cal Tech alumni

Correspondence – W. H. Freeman (publisher) 1983-1997

Correspondence – publishers 1981-1994

Correspondence – Arthur C. Clarke 1988

Correspondence – Andrew Goldstein 1991-92

Correspondence – University of Wyoming (American Heritage Center), 1983-1991

Correspondence, general, 1964, 1981-90

Correspondence, general, 1992-2002

First phone call off echo

Echo – photographs 1960-68

Marconi International Fellowship 1996-97

Personal correspondence and papers

Index to Technical Memoranda

Report on Visit to British electronics laboratories by J. R. Pierce and H. D. Hagstrum, 1944

Transcript of visit with H. G. Wells 1944

System Development Foundation, Annual Report, 1988

International Symposium on Music and Information Science (Japan) 1989

Northwestern University concert in honor of Pierce 1990 (includes correspondence with Amnon Wolman 1990-91)

Bolinger, Richard, "I Know of No Geometry" (a solo work in five movements written in the Pierce Scale) 1990

Bauman, Marcia, "Early Computer Sound and Music Synthesis at Bell Telephone Laboratories," Ph.D. thesis, U. of Rochester, 1995

Tribute to Barney Oliver [Bernard M. Oliver] 1995

Music From Mathematics produced by Bell Telephone Laboratories (LP record with text) 1960

Manuscript musical scores

FLOPPY DISK: Opera

Japan ‘89

J.C. Risset / Echo

Books:

The Bell System Technical Journal, 1972.

California Institute of Technology. Yearbook, 1933.

Friis, Harald T. Seventy-five Years in an Exciting World.

IEEE Press. A Century of Honors.

IEEE Press. Compendium of Communication and Broadcast Satellites, 1958 to 1980.

IRCAM (J.R. Pierce contributor). Passage du XX siecle.

National Academy of Engineering (J. R. Pierce contributor). Technology and International Trade.

Pierce, John R. Proceedings of the IRE.

Pierce, John R. Radio-Electronics.

Pierce, John R. and Edward E. David, Jr. Man’s World of Sound.

Pierce, John R. and Hiroshi Inose. Information Technology and Civilization. (2 copies)

Pierce, J. Almost All About Waves (in Russian).

Pierce, John R. An Introduction to Information Theory. (2 copies).

Pierce, John R. Quantum Electronics and Waves and Messages.

Pierce, John R. and Edward C. Posner. Introduction to Communication Science and Systems. (2 copies).

Pierce, John R. and Arthur G. Tressler. The Research State: A History of Science in New Jersey.

Books:

Pierce, John R. The Science of Musical Sound. (3 copies).

Pierce, John R. Telecommunicatie.

Pierce, John R. Klank en Muziek. (4 copies).

Pierce, John R. and Michael Noll. Signals (2 copies).

Pierce, John R. and Michael Noll. Signals (in Spanish, 2 copies).

Pierce, John R. Le Son Musical.

Pierce, John R. The Science of Musical Sound (in Japanese).

Pierce, John R. My Career as an Engineer.

Pierce, John R. The Beginnings of a Satellite Communications.

Pierce, John R. Science, Art and Communication.

Certificates, mounted photographs, and Saturday Evening Post articles (Jan. 14, 1961 on Echo satellite and Nov. 4, 1961 article by Pierce on computers)