Ernest F. Fisher Papers
name: label: Creator
content: Fisher, Ernest Faraday, 1886-1974
label: Former owner
content: National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Work and Industry
topic: label: Topic
content: Dust
label: Topic
content: Heating and ventilating
label: Topic
content: Refrigeration and refrigerating machinery
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Immediate source of acquisition unknown.  Presumed to have been donated in 1970.
creator: label: Creator
content: Fisher, Ernest Faraday, 1886-1974
setName: label: See more items in
content: Ernest F. Fisher Papers
abstract: label: Summary
content: Collection documents Ernest Faraday Fisher's work with heating, cooling, ventilating, and dust control systems.
bioghist: label: Biographical
content: Ernest Faraday Fisher (January 25, 1886-September 13, 1974) was born to George N. Fisher and Anna Barbara Claus in Leavenworth County, Kansas.  In 1902, he graduated from Leavenworth High School at the age of sixteen and worked for one year in his father's foundry. Fisher moves to Pittsburgh in 1905, after attending the University of Kansas for one year, where he worked for Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company. During this time, he attended Carnegie Tech, graduating in 1909. Employed by Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation throughout the 1910s Fisher leaves the states in 1913-1914 and moves to Europe to attend classes in the Berlin School of Technology (formerly SRH Hochschule Berlin).  Upon his arrival back in the country, Fisher returned to the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company until 1920.  On June 20, 1917, Fisher married Harriet M. Smith-Adair in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and to the union two sons, Ernest Faraday Jr. (April 17, 1918-March 21, 2013) and James Arthur (1920-), were born. Fisher would continue to work for many other companies including the Whiting Corporation (1940s), Wright Aeronautical Corporation (1940s), Faraday Engineering Company (1950s), and the York Corporation (1950s).  During his career he acquired patents for heating, cooling, ventilating, and dust control systems. Several of his patents were sent to large manufacturing companies. Fisher died in 1974 at the age of eighty-eight.

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physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Cubic foot (3 boxes)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1913-1979, undated
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Collection transferred to the Archives Center from the Division of Work & Industry in February 2022.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.1537
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Blueprints
label: Type
content: Correspondence
label: Type
content: Patents
label: Type
content: Photographs
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Collection is arranged in one series.
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Collection processed by Vanessa Broussard-Simmons, archivist, 2023. Finding aid encoded by Audrey Willius, intern, 2023.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Blueprints
label: Genre/Form
content: Correspondence
label: Genre/Form
content: Patents
label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Collection consists primarily of correspondence, patents, black and white photographs, blueprints, handwritten notes, and drawings relating to Ernest Faraday Fisher's work. The correspondence includes incoming and outgoing (copies) communications relating to his professional pursues with little or no information about his personal life. There is documentation for the patents filed by Fisher including hydrodynamic balance (1915), fluid flow indicating meter (1918), heating apparatus (1930), air conditioning apparatus (1934), apparatus for cooling liquids (1934), sludge separators (1941), air and gas washer (1943), and water-cooled deflectors (1956). Most of the photographs are images of hydro clone units stamped Whiting Corporation on the reverse side and are undated. In addition, there are images of cooling units for the Gardner Advertising Company and electric heaters for Mr. Hooker's office. Blueprints for a unit cooler (1933), fly ash collector (1938 January), ventilating tempering unit (1939), paint spray booth (1940), and Orchard heater for oil or liquid gas fuel (undated) are also found among these materials.  Materials are arranged in chronological order.
relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: Materials at the Archives Center, National Museum of American History

For more materials relating to heating, see the following collections:

Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Heating Industry, NMAH.AC.0060

American Petroleum Institute Photograph and Film Collection, NMAH.AC.0711

T. B. Cryer Company Records, NMAH.AC.1085

Women's Auxiliary, National Association of Plumbing, Heating, and Cooling Contractors Records, NMAH.AC.1304

Paul Steam-Heating System Company Records, NMAH.AC.1554

For more materials relating to cooling, see the following collections:

C. L. Strong Papers, NMAH.AC.0012

Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Air-Conditioning, NMAH.AC.0060

Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Refrigeration, NMAH.AC.0060

Frick Company Records, NMAH.AC.0293

Industry on Parade Film Collection, NMAH.AC.0507

American Petroleum Institute Photograph and Film Collection, NMAH.AC.0711

Cooper-Bessemer Corporation, NMAH.AC.0961 

Nickerson and Collins Refrigeration Photographs, NMAH.AC.1044

For more materials relating to ventilating, see the following collections:

Parke, Davis Research Laboratory Records, NMAH.AC.0001

Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Air-Conditioning, NMAH.AC.0060

Nicholas C. Mandragos Papers, NMAH.AC.0484

Alfred Maevis Collection, NMAH.AC.0954

Montgomery C. Meigs Papers, NMAH.AC.0984

James Forgie Papers, NMAH.AC.0986

Rudolph Hering Collection, NMAH.AC.0989

Coxe Brothers and Company, NMAH.AC.1002

Grand Central Terminal Collection, NMAH.AC.1071

T. B. Cryer Company Records, NMAH.AC.1085

For more materials relating to Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company Records, see the following collections:

George H. Clark Radioana Collection, NMAH.AC.0055

Warshaw Collection of Business Americana: Electricity, NMAH.AC.0060

Eisler Engineering Company Records, NMAH.AC.0734

Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company Records, NMAH.AC.0977