Entries 51–60, oldest first.
B. F. Skinner's 1960 account of Project Pigeon, the World War II program to guide missiles with trained pigeons, and its peacetime continuation at the Naval Research Laboratory called ORCON. 10 pages.
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Transcript of an interview with Annie Easley at the NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland on August 21, 2001, for the NASA Headquarters History Office Herstory Project. 55 pages.
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Work of the US federal government, not subject to copyright (17 U.S.C. 105).
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.
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Claude Shannon's 1938 journal paper, an abstract of his MIT master's thesis, applying Boolean algebra to the design of relay and switching circuits. 27 pages, scanned.
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Claude Shannon's typewritten master's thesis as submitted to the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering, title page dated August 10, 1937. 72 pages, scanned, from DSpace@MIT.
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A 44-page National Endowment for the Arts booklet in the Federal Design Library series, based on Massimo Vignelli's presentation of November 10, 1976 to the Second Studio Seminar for Federal Graphic Designers. It recommends the grid as a way to save the government time and money.
Read about it · the PDF · source: archive.org
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The National Transportation Safety Board's 52-page catalogue of transportation safety improvements that followed its investigations, fourth edition, issued for AirVenture Oshkosh 2006.
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The U.S. Chemical Safety Board's 169-page investigation report, published June 2024, on the fatal naphtha release and fire of September 20, 2022 at the BP-Husky refinery in Oregon, Ohio.
Read about it · the PDF · source: www.csb.gov
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A 1927 print advertisement for the US School of Music's piano-by-mail course, written by John Caples, catalogued as a link to a swipe-file copy of the image.
Read about it · source: swiped.co
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Twelve-page Sandia National Laboratories paper (SAND2014-16545J) by Jason Weaver on the testing, modeling, analysis and design features used to assure nuclear weapon safety.
Read about it · the PDF · source: www.osti.gov
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