David Taylor Model Basin Collection
name: label: Creator
content: David W. Taylor Model Basin
topic: label: Topic
content: Ships
label: Topic
content: Testing
label: Topic
content: United States--Navy
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Acquired circa 1979; immediate source of acquisition unknown.
creator: label: Creator
content: David W. Taylor Model Basin
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content: David Taylor Model Basin Collection
abstract: label: Summary
content: Collection documents the activities of the David Taylor Model Basin.
bioghist: label: Historical
content: The David Taylor Model Basin (DTMB) was conceived, designed, and built from 1937-1939 by the United States Navy for building and testing ship models in accordance with the most modern and accurate methods. 

The facility was named after David Watson Taylor (1864-1940), a naval architect, rear admiral and the chief of the Bureau of Construction and Repair for the Navy. Taylor oversaw the design and construction of naval aircraft and ships. Taylor conceived of and designed the Washington Navy Yard's Experimental Model Basin (EMB) in 1896. By the 1930s, the EMB had become inadequate for research, and a new research facility--David Taylor Model Basin--was built in West Bethesda, Maryland. It is now known as the Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) 

Source

Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark, David Taylor Model Basin, 1939, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division, West Bethesda, Maryland, January 30, 1998
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Cubic feet (4 boxes)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1856, 1878, 1925-1971
label: Date
content: bulk 1940s
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Collection transferred to the Archives Center from the Division of Work and Industry in February 2022.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.1563
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Diagrams
label: Type
content: Field notes
label: Type
content: Patents
label: Type
content: Photographs
label: Type
content: Publications
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Collection is arranged into 5 series.


	
Series 1: Vernon E. Benjamin Materials, 1946-1947

Series 2: George W. Cook Materials, 1945-1973	

Series 3: Mills Dean III Materials, 1946-1969

Series 4: Papers, Reports and Writings, 1856, 1878, 1925-1971	

Series 5: Photographs, 1943-1952
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Collection processed by Alison Oswald, archivist, 2023.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Diagrams
label: Genre/Form
content: Field notes
label: Genre/Form
content: Patents
label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
label: Genre/Form
content: Publications
scopecontent: label: Content Description
content: Collection consists of a report by Mills Dean III, titled "Frontier Days of Electronic Measurements of the Taylor Model Basin." The report contains photographs of the model basin and diagrams of its construction.  The photographs document equipment, facilities staff, and testing activities of the David Taylor Model Basin in the 1940s. Photographs are of cathode ray tubes recording channels; circuits; diagrams; a dynamometer; sections of ships at sea; and a static and dynamic ship analog computer. Also included are photographs of the David Taylor Model Basin (exterior and interior shots); electronics laboratory; Model Basin staff; and the 24th Annual Meeting of the Eastern Section of the Seismological Society of America.