Melville Eastham papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 5800
Subjects: Correspondence; Atlases; Loran; Maps; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; General Radio Company; Radar; Radio; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Radiation Laboratory; Navigation; Collectors and collecting
Description: Correspondence, diaries, notebooks, reports, company files, clippings, printed matter, blueprints, plans, sketches, photographs, and other papers relating chiefly to Eastham's career as radio engineer and as head of the General Radio Company.  Includes files pertaining to long-range navigation and the Loran project at Massachusetts Institute of Technology Radiation Laboratory.  Also documents his avocation of collecting sixteenth- and seventeenth-century maps and atlases.  Correspondents include Fred S. Barton, Cedric M. Benham, Ralph Bown, Vannevar Bush, Trevor Clark, K.T. Compton, James Bryant Conant, George Friedrichs, Nicole Friedrichs, Charles S. Grover, Alfred L. Loomis, Claude Lyons, Henry S. Mears, William P. Murphy, Marie E. Schaefer, and Henry Southworth Shaw.
Notes: Open to research.

Gift, Jessie Chase Eastham, 1974.

transferred to Library of Congress Geography and Map Division.

Radio engineer and manufacturer.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room.