Charles G. Beaudette papers

Charles G. Beaudette papers, 1933-2006

Overview of the Collection

Creator: Beaudette, Charles G.
Title: Charles G. Beaudette papers
Dates: 1933-2006 (inclusive)
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Quantity: 19.5 linear feet
Collection Number: Accn2297
Summary: The Charles G. Beaudette papers (1933-2006) consist of Beaudette's writings and files on cold fusion. Beaudette (b. 1930) is an electrical engineer who graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1952.
Repository: University of Utah Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library
University of Utah
295 South 1500 East
Salt Lake City, UT
84112-0860

Telephone: 8015818863
special@library.utah.edu
Access Restrictions: Twenty-four hour advanced notice encouraged. Materials must be used on-site. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.
Languages: English

Historical NoteReturn to Top

Charles G. Beaudette was born in Boston in 1930. He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he majored in electrical engineering and held the position of managing editor of The Tech, the official student newspaper. He was awarded the degree of S.B. (Bachelor of Science) in electrical engineering in 1952, after which he entered a two-year tour of duty in the United States Air Force. In 1958 he started Dychro Corporation and sold it to a computer company in 1961. From 1963 to 1973 he was employed by EG&G Corporation in Wellesley, Massachusetts, in the capacity of senior engineer and engineering manager. It was during this time that he participated in the technology development for what eventually became the office facsimile, and which work included development of what is now the PC modem. From this activity, Beaudette was issued patents on image processing for variable speed page scanning.

This biography was taken from Excess Heat: Why Cold Fusion Research Prevailed.

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

The Charles G. Beaudette papers (1933-2006) consist of Beaudette's writings and files on cold fusion. Included are assorted papers and publications collected by Beaudette, correspondence, notes, materials from the International Conferences on Cold Fusion, and news articles, among other papers. Also included are drafts and final editions of Beaudette's book, Excess Heat: Why Cold Fusion Research Prevailed, described by Sir Arthur Clarke as an "extremely important and timely book."

This collection has been kept in the strict order set by the donor. The numbering/lettering system on select folders and items correlates to the numbers/letters found on the original folders. Please see box 35, folder 1, for Beaudette's own archive listing and numbering system. All folders reflect the original titles given by the donor.

Use of the CollectionReturn to Top

Restrictions on Use

It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain any necessary copyright clearances.

Permission to publish material from the Charles G. Beaudette papers must be obtained from the Special Collections Manuscript Curator.

Preferred Citation

Initial Citation: Charles G. Beaudette papers, Accn 2297, Box [ ]. Special Collections and Archives. University of Utah, J. Willard Marriott. Salt Lake City, Utah.

Following Citations:Accn 2297.

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Acquisition Information

Gift of Charles G. Beaudette in 2006.

Separated Materials

Photographs and audio-visual materials from original cartons "D1" and "D2" were transferred to the Multimedia Division of Special Collections (P1422 and A0918). The CDs originally housed in "D1," as well as some others scattered throughout the collection, have been transferred to the Manuscripts Division's CD case.

Processing Note

Processed by Lisa DeMille in 2007.

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

Assorted papers, 1986-circa. 2001Return to Top

Container(s): Box 1

These materials were originally from carton "A." Each volume was originally bound with metal bindings. They have been removed for preservation purposes.

Container(s)	Description	Dates
Folder
1	Assorted papers from Bound Volume 01	1989-circa 2001
2	Assorted papers from Bound Volume 02	1986-1992
3	Assorted papers from Bound Volume 04	1989-1993
4	Assorted papers from Bound Volume 05	1989-1995

Assorted papers, 1948-1998Return to Top

Container(s): Box 2

These materials were originally from carton "A." Each volume was originally bound with metal bindings. They have been removed for preservation purposes.

Container(s)	Description	Dates
Folder
1	Assorted papers from Bound Volume 06	1990-1995
2	Assorted papers from Bound Volume 07	1989-1998
3	Assorted papers from Bound Volume 07 Although this has the same volume number as folder 2, the contents were bound separately.	1989-1996
4	Assorted papers from Bound Volume 11	1948-1995

Assorted papers, 1965-1996Return to Top

Container(s): Box 3

These materials were originally from cartons "A" and "B." Each volume was originally bound with metal bindings. They have been removed for preservation purposes.

Container(s)	Description	Dates
Folder
1	Assorted papers from Bound Volume 12	1988-1995
2	Assorted papers from Bound Volume 15	1965-1996
3	Assorted papers from Bound Volume 21	1989-1996

Assorted papers, 1939-1996Return to Top

Container(s): Box 4

These materials were originally from carton "B." Each volume was originally bound with metal bindings. They have been removed for preservation purposes.

Container(s)	Description	Dates
Folder
1	Assorted papers from Bound Volume 22	1967-1996
2	Assorted papers from Bound Volume 23	1989-1996
3	Assorted papers from Bound Volume 24	1939-1996

Assorted papers, 1961-2004Return to Top

Container(s): Box 5

These materials were originally from carton "B." Each volume was originally bound with metal bindings. They have been removed for preservation purposes.

Container(s)	Description	Dates
Folder
1	Assorted papers from Bound Volume 25	1989-2004
2	Assorted papers from Bound Volume 26	1981-1997
3	Assorted papers from Bound Volume 27	1961-1997

Assorted papers, 1963-1998Return to Top

Container(s): Box 6

These materials were originally from carton "B." Each volume was originally bound with metal bindings. They have been removed for preservation purposes.

Container(s)	Description	Dates
Folder
1	Assorted papers from Bound Volume 29	1971-1998
2	Assorted papers from Bound Volume 30	1995-1998
3	Assorted papers from Bound Volume 31	1963-1998

Assorted papers, 1983-2000Return to Top

Container(s): Box 7

These materials were originally from carton "C." Each volume was originally bound with metal bindings. They have been removed for preservation purposes.

Container(s)	Description	Dates
Folder
1	Assorted papers from Bound Volume 32	1983-2000
2-3	Assorted papers from Bound Volume 33	1991-2000

Assorted papers, 1933-2005Return to Top

Container(s): Box 8

These materials were originally from carton "C." Each volume was originally bound with metal bindings. They have been removed for preservation purposes.

Container(s)	Description	Dates
Folder
1	Assorted papers from Bound Volume 34	1934-2002
2-3	Assorted papers from Bound Volume 35	1933-2005
4	Assorted papers from Bound Volume 36A	1998-2003

Assorted papers, 1934-2006Return to Top

Container(s): Box 9

These materials were originally from carton "C." Each volume was originally bound with metal bindings. They have been removed for preservation purposes.

Container(s)	Description	Dates
Folder
1	Assorted papers from Bound Volume 36B	1969-2006
2	Assorted papers from Bound Volume 37	1934-2006
3-4	Assorted papers from Bound Volume 38	1989-2005

Correspondence, 1989-1999Return to Top

Container(s): Box 10

These materials were originally from carton "E1." Cartons "D1" and "D2" contained photographs and audio-visual materials and were transferred to the Multimedia Division of Special Collections (see "Related Material" note in "Administrative Information").

Correspondence, 2000-2005Return to Top

Container(s): Box 11

These materials were originally from carton "E1."

Alphabetical Files, 1988-2006Return to Top

Container(s): Box 12

These materials were originally from carton "E2." Included are correspondence, draft technical papers, telephone conversation notes, interview guidelines, email copies, articles, and various other papers.

Container(s)	Description	Dates
Folder
1	Access to Energy	1988-2001
2	American Physical Society	1989-1999
3	American Scholar	1994-1995
4	Mark Anderson	1997
5	Kevin Ashley	1998
6	Geoffrey Barker	1996
7	Robert W. Bass	1997-2003
8	Henry Bauer	1996-2004
9	Jeremy Bernstein	1997-1999
10	Richard Bernstein	1996
11	Harold Birnbaum	1996
12	Jerry Bishop	1992, 1999
13	John Bockris	ca. 1989-2004
14	Brigham Young University	1997-2006
15	Ben F. Bush	2000-2001
16	Karin Caldwell	1995-2000

Alphabetical Files, 1995-2006Return to Top

Container(s): Box 13

Container(s)	Description	Dates
Folder
1	Leslie C. Case	1999-2001
2	Case Cell	1998
3	Ed Cecil	2001
4	Scott Chubb	1995-2001
5	Talbot A. Chubb	1998-2002
6	Cincinatti Group	1997-1998
7	W. Brian Clarke	2001-2002
8	Clean Energy Technologies, Inc.	1997-1998
9	Cornell University	1995-1998
10	Department of Energy	1996-2006
11	Dolly the Cloned Sheep	1996-2006

Alphabetical Files, 1992-2006Return to Top

Container(s): Box 14

Container(s)	Description	Dates
Folder
1	Draper Laboratory	2004
2	Electrochemistry	1996-1998
3	Excess Heat	2000-2006
4	Larry Faulkner	1996
5	Martin Fleishmann	1995-2005
6	Hal Fox	1993-2001
7	Galileo	1997-2001
8	M. E. Goulder	2003
9	Peter Hagelstein	1993-2004
10	Wilford Hansen	1992-1995
11	Marvin Hawkins	1997-1998
12	Howard Hayden	1995-1999
13	Robert A. Huggins	1995-1998
14	John Huizenga	1999
15	Innovative Energy Solutions, Inc.	2005
16	International Conference on Cold Fusion	1995-1996

Alphabetical Files, 1991-2005Return to Top

Container(s): Box 15

These materials were originally from cartons "E2" and "E3." Included are correspondence, draft technical papers, telephone conversation notes, interview guidelines, email copies, articles, and various other papers.

Container(s)	Description	Dates
Folder
1-3	International Conference on Cold Fusion	1997-2003
4	International Society for Condensed Matter Nuclear Science	2003-2005
5	Fred Jaeger	1995
6	Brian Josephson	2004
7	William Kelvin
8	Carol Korzeniewski	2001
9	Daniel Koshland	1999
10	Bruce V. Lewenstein	1991-1997
11	Xing Zhong Li	1998-2002
12	Lincoln Laboratory	2004
13	MailGate/MyGate	2002-2003
14	Eugene Mallove	1991-2004
15	Michael McKubre	1995-2001

Alphabetical Files, 1994-2004Return to Top

Container(s): Box 16

These materials were originally from carton "E3." Included are correspondence, draft technical papers, telephone conversation notes, interview guidelines, email copies, articles, and various other papers.

Container(s)	Description	Dates
Folder
1	Michael Melich	1998-2003
2	Meltdown	1998, 2001
3	Giuliano Mengoli	1996, 2001
4-5	Melvin Miles	1996-2004
6	George Miley	1998-2003
7	MIT Club of New Hampshire	2003
8	Tadahiko Mizuno	1997, 2002
9	David J. Nagel	1994-2004
10	National Science Foundation	1996-ca. 2000
11	Newscientist	2002-2003
12	Newsgroups	2000-2004

Alphabetical Files, 1989-2005Return to Top

Container(s): Box 17

Container(s)	Description	Dates
Folder
1	NHE-Japan
2	Notebooks from F&P Laboratory
3	Richard A. Oriani	1990-1999
4	Robert L. Park	1989-2005
5	Tom Passell	1995-2001
6	Patents	1990
7	Chase and Grethe Peterson	1998-2001
8	Philosophy of Science	1999
9	B. Stanley Pons	1996-1997
10	Ed Prucha	2000-2001
11	Norman Ramsey	1996, 1999
12	Jed Rothwell	1993-2002
13	Franco Scaramuzzi	1999
14	Louie Smullin	1996
15	Edmund Storms	1995-2001

Alphabetical Files, 1990-2001Return to Top

Container(s): Box 18

Container(s)	Description	Dates
Folder
1	Mitchell Swartz	1999-2001
2	Akito Takahashi	1996, 1998
3	Edward Teller	2000
4	Transcriptions	1996-1998
5	University of Utah Alumni	1997-2005
6	Cheves T. Walling	1995-1997
7	Lowell L. Wood	1999
8	Yale University	1990, 1997

International Conference on Cold Fusion (ICCF) Materials, 1991-1994Return to Top

Container(s): Box 19

These materials were originally from carton "F1."

Container(s)	Description	Dates
Folder
1	ICCF-2 Proceedings (094+/F1)	1991
2	ICCF-3 Proceedings (393+/F1)	1993
3	ICCF-4 Transactions (272+/F1)	1994

International Conference on Cold Fusion (ICCF) Materials, 1994Return to Top

Container(s): Box 20

These materials were originally from carton "F1."

Container(s)	Description	Dates
Folder
1	ICCF-4 Plenary Session, Vol. 1 (468+/F1)	1994
2	ICCF-4 Calorimetry and Materials, Vol. 2 (469+/F1)	1994
3	ICCF-4 Nuclear Measurements papers, Vol. 3, (470+/F1)	1994
4	ICCF-4 Theory and Special Topics papers, Vol. 4 (471+/F1)	1994

International Conference on Cold Fusion (ICCF) Materials, 1993-1996Return to Top

Container(s): Box 21

These materials were originally from carton "F1."

Container(s)	Description	Dates
Folder
1	ICCF-4 Abstracts (377+/F1)	1993
2	ICCF-5 Proceedings (464+/F1)	1995
3	ICCF-5 Abstracts (265+/F1)	1995
4	ICCF-6 Proceedings, Vol. 1 (B05+/F1)	1996
5	ICCF-6 Proceedings, Vol. 2 (B06+/F1)	1996

International Conference on Cold Fusion (ICCF) Materials, 1996-2002Return to Top

Container(s): Box 22

These materials were originally from cartons "F1" and "F2."

Container(s)	Description	Dates
Folder
1	ICCF-6 Abstracts (B04+/F1)	1996
2	ICCF-7 Proceedings (D95+/F2)	1998
3	ICCF-7 Abstracts (D58+/F2)	1998
4	ICCF-8 Proceedings (F03+/F2)	2000
5	ICCF-9 Proceedings (H21+/F2)	2002

International Conference on Cold Fusion (ICCF) Materials, 2003-2004Return to Top

Container(s): Box 23

These materials were originally from carton "F2."

Container(s)	Description	Dates
Folder
1	ICCF-10 Proceedings (J03+/F2)	2003
2	ICCF-10 Abstracts	2003
3	ICCF-11 Proceedings (J04+/F2)	2004

International Conference on Cold Fusion (ICCF) Materials, 2004-2005Return to Top

Container(s): Box 24

These materials were originally from carton "F2."

Container(s)	Description	Dates
Folder
1	ICCF-11 Abstracts	2004
2	ICCF-12 Abstracts	2005

Excess Heat , 1998-2006Return to Top

Container(s): Box 25

These materials were originally from carton "G."

Container(s)	Description	Dates
Folder
1-3	Second Edition Manuscript	2002
4	Outline, Index, and Footnotes/Endnotes	1999-2006
5	Source and Modifications of Diagrams, Charts, and Graphics	1998-2002

Excess Heat , 1998-2002Return to Top

Container(s): Box 26

These materials were originally from carton "G."

Container(s)	Description	Dates
Folder
1	Source and Modifications of Diagrams, Charts, and Graphics	1998-2002
2	Book Cover
3-4	Early Typescript	1999-2000

Excess Heat, Early Typescripts, 1997-1999Return to Top

Container(s): Box 27

These materials were originally from carton "G."

Notebook Materials, 1989-2002Return to Top

Container(s): Box 28

These materials were originally from carton "H." They were used in the MIT/Lincoln Laboratory and elsewhere.

Container(s)	Description	Dates
Folder
1-2	Primary Technical papers (H81+/H)	1989-2002
3-4	Draper Lab Presentation Although bearing the same title, the contents of folder 3 were originally in a separate binder than those of folder 4.

Notebook Materials, 1986-2003Return to Top

Container(s): Box 29

These materials were originally from carton "H." They were used in the MIT/Lincoln Laboratory and elsewhere.

Container(s)	Description	Dates
Folder
1	Access to Energy (H61+/09/H)	1986-1993
2	Access to Energy (H63+/09/H)	1993-2003
3	Access to Energy, Index (H62+/09/H)	1994

Published Articles, 1993-2004Return to Top

Container(s): Box 30

These materials were originally from carton "I."

Container(s)	Description	Dates
Folder
1	Bauer Reivew	2000
2	Beaudette Biographical Materials	1993-2004
3	John Bockris	2000
4	Booklet	1998-2002
5	Books in Print	2002
6	Boston Globe	2004
7	Cartoons	1998
8	Carroll Chub	2000
9	Department of Energy (DOE) Warms to Cold Fusion	2004
10	Frontier Perspectives	2000
11	Further Interest	1998-2004
12	Fusion Technology	2001
13	Hieronimus Radio	2001
14	Interview, Radio	2001-2002
15	KUER	1998, 2002
16	Lincoln County News	2003
17	Michael McKubre
18	Newscientist and Wired	1998, 2003
19	New York Times	1999, 2004
20	Nobelists at Lindau	2004
21	Physics	2004
22	Popular Mechanics	2004
23	Portland Press Herald	1993
24	Publicity	2000
25	Salt Lake Tribune	1998
26	Technology Review	2001
27	Times (London)	2002
28	Wall Street Journal	2003
29	Washington Post	2004
30	Miscellaneous

Publications, 1994-1998Return to Top

Container(s): Box 31

These materials were originally from carton "J."

Container(s)	Description	Dates
Folder
1-2	Cold Fusion	1994-1996
3	Elemental Energy (Cold Fusion)	1996-1998
4-5	New Energy News	1997-1998

Publications, 1993-2002Return to Top

Container(s): Box 32

These materials were originally from carton "J."

Container(s)	Description	Dates
Folder
1	Cold Fusion Times	1993-2002
2	Cold Fusion/New Energy Technology	1995
3-5	Infinite Energy	1995-1998

Publications, Infinite Energy, 1998-2001Return to Top

Container(s): Box 33

These materials were originally from carton "J."

Publications, 1993-2005Return to Top

Container(s): Box 34

These materials were originally from carton "J."

Container(s)	Description	Dates
Folder
1-5	Infinite Energy	2001-2005
6	Cold Fusion Newsletter	1993
7	New Energy Times	2005

Database File Printouts, 2006Return to Top

Container(s): Box 35

These materials were originally from carton "K1."

Container(s)	Description	Dates
Folder
1	Master Archive Guide (H70)	2006
2-3	Bibliographic Full content and single line.
4	QEEN File	2006
5-6	Excess Heat Author list and entire author database.
7	Name Lists and Indices
8	Addresses	2006

Publications, 1978-2005Return to Top

Container(s): Box 36

These materials were originally from cartons "K1" and "K2."

Container(s)	Description	Dates
Folder
1	Brian D. Josephson, "Pathological Disbelief"	2004
2	Steven B. Krivit and Nadine Winocur, "The Cold Fusion Report"	2004
3	Charles G. Beaudette, "Response"	2005
4	Ludwik Fleck, Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact (731+/09/K1)	1979
5	Accountability in Research (D40+/09/K1)	2000
6	On Being a Scientist (B27/09/K1)	1995
7	Herbert Inhaber, "Risk of Energy Production" (G69+/09/K1)	1978
8	Risk of Renewable Energy Sources (H57+/09/K1)	1979
9	Transcriptions	1989
10	Development of Advanced Concepts for Nuclear Processes in Deuterated Materials (472+/09/K2)	1994

Publications, 1996-2002Return to Top

Container(s): Box 37

These materials were originally from carton "K2."

Container(s)	Description	Dates
Folder
1	Energy Production Processes in Deuterated Materials (E38+/09/K2)	1998
2	David J. Nagel, "The Status of 'Cold Fusion'" and ICCF-7 Materials (E28+/09/K2)	1998
3	Japan CF-Research Society Abstracts (G27+/09/K2)	2001
4	Sorbtion of Hydrogen on and in Hydrogen-Absorbing Metals in Electrochemical Environments (D92+/09/K2)	1996
5	Cavitation-Induced Excess Heat in Deuterated Metals (E39+/09/K2)	1998
6	Development of Energy Production Systems from Heat Produced in Deuterated Metals, Vol. 2 (F54+/09/K2)	1999
7	Science, Vol. 295, No. 5561 (H60+/09/K2)	2002
8	Journal of New Energy, Vol. 1, Nos. 1 and 3 (H59+, H58+/09/K2)	1996

Publications, 1993-2002Return to Top

Container(s): Box 38

These materials were originally from carton "K2."

Container(s)	Description	Dates
Folder
1	EPRI-NSF Proceedings (221+/09/K2)	1993
2	Calorimetric Analysis of a Heavy Water Electrolysis Experiment Using a Pd-B Alloy Cathode (F01, F93/09/K2)	2001
3	Thermal and Nuclear Aspects of the Pd/D2O System (F94, F95/09/K2)	2002

Publication, FileMaker Manual, 1998Return to Top

Container(s): Box 39

This publication was originally from carton "K2."

Publications, 1990-2002Return to Top

Container(s): Box 40

These materials were originally from carton "L." The CDs from this carton are located in box 42. They are copies of those from carton "D1." CDs from carton "D1" are listed as CD items 1-14.

Container(s)	Description	Dates
Folder
1	ICCF-1 Proceedings (049+/09/L)	1990
2-4	Excess Heat These folders contain first and second editions (in paperback and hardcover) of Beaudette's book. ISBN numbers are recorded on the folders.	2000, 2002

Excess Heat and Mug, 2002Return to Top

Container(s): Box 41

These materials were originally from carton "L." The book is the second edition paperback.

Duplicate CDsReturn to Top

Container(s): Box 42

CDs Removed to the Manuscripts Division's CD CaseReturn to Top

These CDs remain in the order specified by Beaudette. Most of the CDs taken from carton "D1" are listed on page two of Beaudette's archive list, located in box 35, folder 1. Some titles differ between the list and what is actually on the CDs.

Container(s)	Description	Dates
item
1	Master Archive Guide (H23+/D1) CDs listed as items 1-14 were originally from carton "D1."	2006
2	Fleischmann and McKubre (E80+/D1)	1999
3	Mitchell R. Swartz (H00+/D1)
4	Audio Interviews (H27+/D1)
5	"Access to Energy" (H64+/D1)	1973-1994
6	D. J. Nagel, ICCF-10 (H65+/D1)	2003
7	Database Program (H66+/D1)
8	KUER--SLC (H67+/D1)	2002
9	Lincoln Lab/MIT (H68+/D1)	2004
10	EPRI/T. Passell (H82+/D1)
11	LENR--CANR (J07+/10/D1)	2006
12	Britz Collection #1 (J08+/D1)	2006
13	Britz Collection #2 (J09+/D1)	2006
14	"Progress and Promise in Cold Fusion Research" This CD was accompanied by two tapes (H80+/10/D1 and G12+/10/D1) that were transferred to the Multimedia Division.	2004
15	EDMONSON--IESI P2C1 (from N. Arrison) This CD was originally from carton "E2." Accompanying materials are in box 14, folder 15.
16	Radio West, Cold Fusion This CD was originally from carton "I." Accompanying materials are in box 30, folder 14.	2002
17	Radio West, KUER This CD was originally from carton "I." Accompanying materials are in box 30, folder 15.

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