Correspondence
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Gerber, H. Joseph, 1924-1996
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content: Heinz Joseph Gerber Papers
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1943 - 1996
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.1336, Series 3
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Series 3: Correspondence, 1943-1996, primarily contains letters between Gerber and Abraham Koppelman (1943-1948) about Gerber's citizenship and invention of the Gerber Variable Scale. There are also some letters written to Gerber by employees on the eve of their retirement thanking him for his friendship and recounting personal recollections of working with Gerber at G.S.I. There is also one letter from aircraft engineer Charles H. Kaman thanking Gerber for his letter of recommendation for the 1996 National Medal of Technology.