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Show moreApproximately 90 typed and handwritten letters, handouts, pamphlets, postcards, newspaper clippings, and papers regarding Brush and his interactions with the American Philosophical Society in the years 1925, 1926, 1927. Subjects covered in correspondence and related materials include presentation of papers, officer appointments, responsibilities related to offices he was elected to, printings and reprintings of his papers published in the Society publications
Charles F. Brush, Sr., Papers
Series 1: Correspondence
Subseries 3: Business and Professional (1876-1931)
Box 3
Folder 16
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Show more54 typed and handwritten letters between the American Philosophical Society to Charles F., Sr., written in the years 1927, 1928 and 1929, informing Brush of meeting dates and locations, setting lunch appointments, discussion Society matters and especially regarding efforts to publish his works on gravitation through the Society. Includes several Society building and endowment fund bulletins and 1929 annual meeting program
Charles F. Brush, Sr., Papers
Series 1: Correspondence
Subseries 3: Business and Professional (1876-1931)
Box 4
Folder 1
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Show moreVarious publications, typescripts, envelops and correspondence related to Charles Francis Brush, Jr. and his biography. Includes obituary for Charles F., Jr., dated June 4, 1927, from unknown publication. Two handwritten letters, one with an envelope, from Dorothy Brush to Mr. Brooks Shepard, dated August 3, 1927 and August 17, 1927, regarding the money Dorothy is giving Shepard in remembrance of Charles F., Jr. Correspondence relating to his biography include a handwritten note by Brooks Shepard, no date, of Brush Genealogy. Typed correspondence between Shepard and George Derby of the National Cyclopedia of American History dated December 22, 1927, January 3, 1928, January 25, 1928, and February 1, 1928. Typescript by Brooks Shepard, dated January 4, 1928, of the biography of Charles F., Jr. Typed letter from Shepard to Charles F., Sr., dated January 20, 1928. Typed letter from Shepard to Baldwin Sawyer, dated January 20, 1928. Typed correspondence between Shepard and Charles F., Sr., dated January 25, 1928 and January 30, 1928. Handwritten manuscript and typescript drafts of Charles F., Jr. biography, typescript dated October 23, 1931
Charles F. Brush, Sr., Papers
Series 8: Other Papers (1842-1960)
Subseries 1: Biographical (1880s-1932)
Box 27
Folder 2
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Show more6 typed letters between Charles F., Sr., and C. Cornell discussing Cornell's theory of and blueprints for a water and air engine likely to be a perpetual motion scheme.
Charles F. Brush, Sr., Papers
Series 1: Correspondence
Subseries 3: Business and Professional (1876-1931)
Box 4
Folder 5
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Show more6 Typed letters between William Hobbes and Charles F., Sr., in which Hobbes hopes Brush will finance further geographical work, Hobbes mentions naming a mountain in Greenland Mt. Brush, and Brush suggests Hobbes look elsewhere for financing. Includes photograph of Mt. Brush.
Charles F. Brush, Sr., Papers
Series 1: Correspondence
Subseries 3: Business and Professional (1876-1931)
Box 4
Folder 13
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Show moreOne reprint of, one typescript, and one handwritten manuscript for the article by Charles F. Brush, Sr. entitled, Persistent Generation of Heat in Some Rocks and Minerals, and its Probable Significance, Second Paper, from the Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Volume 66, dated 1927. Originally read April 29, 1927, typescript dated April, 1927. Brush continues his experiments with heat generation in various rock samples, in support of his kinetic theory of gravitation. Tests conducted with machinery at the Sandusky Cement Company
Charles F. Brush, Sr., Papers
Series 7: Articles by Charles F. Brush (1879-1929)
Box 26
Folder 12
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Show more2 typed letters between Paul Paddock of Popular Mechanics and Charles F., Sr., discussing the birth of electric lighting through Brush's arc light and the actual date of that event.
Charles F. Brush, Sr., Papers
Series 1: Correspondence
Subseries 3: Business and Professional (1876-1931)
Box 5
Folder 11
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Show more1 Typed letter from Brooks Shepard to Charles F., Sr., from 1927 regarding writing work he was doing for Brush including Charles F., Jr.'s biography, and his pleasure at being able to write for Brush. 11 typed and handwritten letters between Brooks Shepard, Charles F., Sr., and John Benyon, 1928-1929, in which Benyon asks Brush for an account of the invention of the arc-light for a publication The United States History Association planned to publish, which article Brush suggested Shepard write. Further letters discuss the status of the article. Final letter from Nona Schirg to John Benyon enclosing article after Brush's death in 1929.
Charles F. Brush, Sr., Papers
Series 1: Correspondence
Subseries 3: Business and Professional (1876-1931)
Box 5
Folder 14
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