John Hays Hammond, Jr. papers

Collection

Call Number: MS 863

Scope and Contents

Printed patents, reports and related material on his system for the radio control of torpedoes, inventions for musical instruments and scrapbooks of newspaper clippings and congressional publications about Hammond and his work. Half the collection is made up of clippings.

Dates

1912-1963

Creator

Hammond, John Hays, 1888-1965

Conditions Governing Access

The materials are open for research.

Conditions Governing Use

Copyright status for collection materials is unknown. Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.) beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Works not in the public domain cannot be commercially exploited without permission of the copyright owners. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of the John Hays Hammond, Jr. estate, 1965.

Arrangement

Arranged by type of material.

Extent

9 Linear Feet

Language of Materials

English

Catalog Record

A record for this collection is available in Orbis, the Yale University Library catalog

Persistent URL

https://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.0863

Additional Description

Overview

Biographical / Historical

Inventor; B.S., Sheffield Scientific School, Yale, 1910; pioneer in systems radio control of moving objects (torpedoes, ships, etc.); president Radio Engineering Co. of N.Y., Hammond Research Corp. of Mass.; inventor of improved methods of phonographic reproduction, other inventions relating to radio telephony and telegraphy, radar, pipe organ mechanisms, radio and phonograph reproduction; applied for over 800 patents in U.S. and Europe.