As manuscript collections are processed, interesting photographs are removed and replaced with photocopies on acid-free paper. The actual photographs are then added to the visual archives. We also received copies of two videotapes on the history of electric bikes from Frank Jamerson . We continue to make regular additions to our collection of audio tape recordings of lectures, meetings, and symposiums. The Center has acquired a number of interviews since our last update.
Some interviews are available right now for researchers while others are still being processed.
The Center continued to provide transcription services for interviews conducted by Katherine Sopka in the late 1970s for the Harvard University Physics Department. Fermila b. The Niels Bohr Library also solicits copies of interviews conducted for other projects, sometimes helping with costs of transcription, copying, etc. We acquired an interview from the Regional Oral History Office of the Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley, conducted by Ann Lage and Graham Hale with August Helmholz . Gianni Battimelli and Daan Frenkel conducted an interview with Berni Alder . Paul Edwards conducted interviews with Cecil Leith and Akio Arakawa .