Adventures in Research: A History of Ames Research Center 1940-1965
Edwin P. Hartman's NASA Center History Series volume SP-4302, published in 1970, on the first twenty-five years of the Ames Research Center. 575 pages.

Edwin P. Hartman's Adventures in Research was issued by NASA in 1970 as SP-4302 of the Center History Series, through the Office of Technology Utilization. It covers the Ames Research Center from 1940 to 1965.
The title page says it was for sale by the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, at $4.75, and gives its Library of Congress catalog card number as 78-601606. The book is dedicated to Smitty DeFrance, and the dedication says the laboratory he founded bears the stamp of his integrity.
The volume is 575 pages. Hartman's period ends five years before NASA published it, and the history was produced by the agency whose center it describes.
Provenance
- Original source
- https://history.nasa.gov/SP-4302.pdf
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- This copy
- 17.2 MB · 575 pages · archived here
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- Work of the US federal government, not subject to copyright (17 U.S.C. 105).
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