Guide to the Albert Adams Merrill Papers, 1892-1951
Guide to the Albert Adams Merrill Papers, 1892-1951
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- December 19, 1996; updated July 1998
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Linear feet: 0.5
Biographical
Photo, 1910, of A. A. Merrill with Wilber Wright, Ralph Johnstone, Walter Brookins
"Order of Exercises," 1892
Press releases, biographical information sheet, obituaries
Wind tunnel, flight
"Alterations Made on Merrill Wind Tunnel Balance," Feb. 17, 1950
2 photos of a device for studying airplane design, 1950
Note from E. Sechler to Wm. Bowen, n.d.
4 postcards showing sunspots, nebula
Graph, untitled, n.d.
"My Baltimore Trip in the Safety Plane," by A. L. James, n.d. [photostat, 2 copies]
"Transcript - May 23, 1914" [2 copies]
"A Tribute to the Wright Brothers," Aerosphere, 1943
Southern California Cooperative Wind Tunnel brochure, n.d.
Reprints (by Merrill unless otherwise noted)
"The Revolving Slope," Boston Aeronautical Annual, 1896
"A New Method of Experimenting with Gliding Flights," Aeronautical Journal, 1906
"Roll and Yaw in Flight," Western Flying, 1928 [3 copies]
"Free Will and Intuition," Psych. & Sci. Methods, 1918 [2 copies]
"Prediction and Spontaneity," Psych. & Sci. Methods, 1919 [2 copies]
"Mechanism," J.F.I., 1935
"The t of Physics," Journal of Philosophy, 1922
"The Water Test," 1922 [3 copies]
"A Note on Gresham's Law," New Democracy, 1935 [3 copies]
"Limitations," Journal of Philosophy, 1930
"Free Will," Psych. & Sci. Methods, 1918
"Duration and Relativity," Journal of Philosophy, 1923 [3 copies]
"What is Décalage?," Western Flying, 1928 [3 copies]
"The Movable-Wing Biplane," Western Flying, 1928
"Safety and the Slotted Wing," Aeronautical World, 1928
Alexander Kemlin, "The Merrill Movable Wing Stagger Décalage Biplane," Aviation Engineering, 1931
"Planes 'Foolproof' in Operation are Sought to Enlarge Demand," United States Daily, April 15, 1941
Howard Mingos, "Flying Speeds the Pace of Transportation," Magazine of Wall Street, May 26, 1931
"The Stagger-Décalage Biplane," Mechanical Engineering, 1931
Correspondence
Dewey, John, to Merrill, March 1, 1918 [photostat]
Poor, Charles Lane, to Merrill, Jan. 23, 1931 [photostat]
Poor, Charles Lane, to Merrill, Feb. 3, 1931 [photostat]
Richtmyer, F. K., to Merrill, Oct. 16, 1930 [photostat]
Anderson, J. A., to Merrill, June 5, (n.y.) [photostat]
Kennard, E. H., to Merrill, Feb. 16, 1931 [photostat]
Poor, Charles Lane, to Merrill, Jan. 19, 1931 [photostat, 3 pp.]
Chanute, Octave, n.d. [photograph]
Claverie, A. Walter, to Balzer & Ballou, July 1, 1927
Diehl, Walter S., unsigned copy of affidavit, April 1931
Ballou, John McK., "Notes on the Merrill Biplane," n.d.
White, H. J., to Klemin, April 14, 1931 [photostat]
Gazley, Richard C., to John McK. Ballou, May 8, 1931 [photostat]
Lloyd, Robert (Bob), June 30, 1927 [photostat]
Ovington, Earle, to Balzer & Ballou, March 1, 1928 [photostat]
Kelley, M. F., July 26, 1928 [photostat]
Ferguson, L. L., to Merrill, April 10, 1931 [photostat]
Ballou, John McK., to Richard C. Gazley, May 26, 1931 [photostat]
Gazley, Richard C., to John McK. Ballou, May 28, 1931
Budwig, Gilbert G., to John McK. Ballou, April 15, 1931 [photostat]
Budwig, Gilbert G., to John McK. Ballou, May 21, 1931 [photostat]
Lloyd, G. L., to John Ballou, June 3, 1931 [photostat]
Moure, K. R., to John Mck. Ballou, May 5, 1931 [photostat]
Patent specifications
1,849,652, to John McK. Ballou, airplane, March 15, 1932
1,856,093, to Ford, Ballou, Balzar, airplane, May 3, 1932
1,889,864, to Merrill, airplane, Dec. 6, 1932
1,856,094, to Ford, Ballou, Balzar, airplane, May 3, 1952
Manuscript articles
"A Simple Optical system for Null Headings," n.d.
"Advertising," n.d.
"Honest Finance," 1936
"Population and War," n.d.
"Gold and Social Credit, or What Might Have Happened," n.d.
"The Standard of Living," n.d.
"Taxes," n.d.
"(A note on position-velocity uncertainty)," Dec. 31, 1935
"What is Truth?," n.d.
"Theory and Practise," n.d.
"To the Editor of Scientific American," n.d.
"Surplus Energy," 1935
"Technical Note: 'Happy Landings'," n.d. [carbon]
"Relative or Absolute," n.d.
Letter to an editor, June 20, 1936
"Intellect and the 'Thing in Itself'," n.d.
"Creative Evolution and Relativity," n.d.
"Time," n.d.
"'C' as a Limiting Velocity," n.d.
"Two Heresies," n.d.
"Some Victorians," 1934
The Merrill Type Airplane, Sept. 1, 1932
The Merrill Type Monoplane, by John McK. Ballou, Feb. 28, 1933
A Picture of World Events, by A. A. Merrill, inscribed to Clark Millikan, n.d. (pre-1930)
A Picture of World Events, revised copy with author's notes, June 1951