Inventions

Scope and Contents This collection includes correspondence, newspaper advertising, newspaper clippings, photographs, invoices, scrapbooks, and award ribbons from David Munson in Indiana and the United States, ranging from 1838 to 1913, regarding the Munson Lightning Rod, advertising, the Munson family, and business accounts.

Scope and Contents This collection includes black-and-white photographs of Ernest Patrick in Columbus, Indiana dated 1932 and undated depicting Patrick with his wife, in his laboratory where he developed the radio, and with Dr. Bruce Morgand, consulting engineer, and advertising agent Irving Auspitz. There is also a photograph of the radio itself.

Scope and Contents This collection contains a patent for Eli Keith and Barclay Thorn regarding leather tanning, dated September 12, 1865.

Scope and Contents This collection includes photographs of Richard Jordan Gatling's tomb in Crown Hill Cemetery in Indianapolis, Indiana and his invention the Gatling gun taken by the Indiana Department of Conservation in March 1964. There is also the front page of the February 7, 1874 issue of Scientific American, which features the Gatling gun.

Scope and Contents This collection includes photostats along with original postcards and other documents pertaining to Charles E. Duryea's invention of the first automobile in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1892. On January 1, 1939, Merle J. Duryea, son of Charles J. Duryea, prepared a list of 19 documents as proof of his father being the inventor of the first automobile. These documents cover the time period from 1892 through 1937. Notes are written on the backs of most of the items, along with the...