Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers

Overview of the Collection

Creator

Kirsten, Frederick Kurt,$d1885-

Title

Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers

Dates

1901-1991 (inclusive)

Quantity

5.87 cubic feet (7 boxes, 1 oversize flat file, 3 oversize vertical files, and 3 vertical files)

Collection Number

3378 (mss)

Summary

Papers of inventor and electrical engineering professor at the University of Washington

Repository

University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections
University of Washington Libraries
Box 352900
Seattle, WA
98195-2900
Telephone: 2065431929
Fax: 2065431931
speccoll@uw.edu

Access Restrictions

Open to all users.

Request at UW

Languages

English

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Biographical Note

Born 1885, Germany, came to U.S. in 1903. Taught at UW, 1915-28, Electrical Engineering and 1928-51, Aeronautical Engineering. Inventions include cycloidal propeller for airplanes and marine vessels, and Kirsten pipe, 1936.

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Content Description

Correspondence, drawings, speeches and writings, agreements, patents, reports, photographs

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Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

Creator's literary rights transferred to the University of Washington Libraries.

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Administrative Information

Arrangement

Arranged in 5 accessions:

Accession no. 3378-001, Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1948.
Accession no. 3378-002, Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1919-1951.
Accession no. 3378-003, Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1909-1940.
Accession no. 3378-004, Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1903-1945.
Accession no. 3378-005, Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1950.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

Description: Accession No. 3378-001: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1948
0.03 cubic feet

Scope and Content: Two letters from Dr. Kirsten (Professor of Aeronautical Engineering). The first letter is a note of appreciation for the honor of having the wind tunnel named after him. The second letter is to Condon (probably Herbert) reminiscing about the past and his "tampering with the electrical circuits".

Restrictions on Access: Open to all users.
Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951

5.48 cubic feet

Scope and Content: Correspondence, drawings, speeches and writings, agreements, patents, reports, photographs.

Restrictions on Access: Open to all users.

Acquisition Info: Donor: Dorothea Kirsten Hardisty, March 08, 1991.
- Biographical Features
  - Description: Copies of Items retained by Kirsten Hardisty
    
    Dates: undated
    
    Container: Box/Folder 1/1, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Biographical Features
  - Description: Mark Levinson's Inventory
    
    Dates: 1989
    
    Container: Box/Folder 1/2, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Biographical Features
  - Description: Mark Levinson's Article on Kirsten
    
    Dates: 1991
    
    Container: Box/Folder 1/3, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Biographical Features
  - Description: Professional Record; Dedication of Kirsten Aeronautical Laboratory
    
    Dates: 1935, 1951; 1979
    
    Container: Box/Folder 1/4, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Biographical Features
- Incoming Letters
  - Description: Anderton, Jack H
    
    Dates: 1919, 1922-1924, 1939-1946
    
    Container: Box/Folder 1/5, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Incoming Letters
  - Description: Arnstein, Karl (Goodyear Zeppelin Corporation)
    
    Dates: 1938
    
    Container: Box/Folder 1/6, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Incoming Letters
  - Description: Brazell, Nicholas J. (U.S. Navy. Ships Department)
    
    Dates: 1944-1952
    
    Container: Box/Folder 1/7-11, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Incoming Letters
  - Description: Cornwath, James R.
    
    Dates: 1944, 1950
    
    Container: Box/Folder 1/12, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Incoming Letters
  - Description: Cook and Robinson (Patent Attorneys)
    
    Dates: 1942
    
    Container: Box/Folder 1/13, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Incoming Letters
  - Description: Chris-Craft Corporation
    
    Dates: 1936-1937
    
    Container: Box/Folder 1/14, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Incoming Letters
  - Description: Crim, L.P. (Major U.S. War Department)
    
    Dates: 1934-1942
    
    Container: Box/Folder 1/15-16, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Incoming Letters
  - Description: Doherty, R.E. (General Electric Company
    
    Dates: 1928
    
    Container: Box/Folder 1/17, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Incoming Letters
  - Description: Gardner, Lester D. (Institute of Aeronautical Sciences)
    
    Dates: 1934-1951
    
    Container: Box/Folder 1/18-20, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Incoming Letters
  - Description: Garder, Lester D. (Group Letters to the Friends of)
    
    Dates: undated
    
    Container: Box/Folder 1/21, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Incoming Letters
  - Description: Harter, Isaac
    
    Dates: 1942, 1943
    
    Container: Box/Folder 1/22, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Incoming Letters
  - Description: Hastings Trading Company
    
    Dates: 1946, 1947
    
    Container: Box/Folder 1/23, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Incoming Letters
  - Description: Heinz, Winfield B
    
    Dates: 1945, 1952
    
    Container: Box/Folder 1/24, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Incoming Letters
  - Description: Howe, Ralph W
    
    Dates: 1942, 1946
    
    Container: Box/Folder 1/25, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Incoming Letters
  - Description: Hutter, Lester
    
    Dates: 1939-1944
    
    Container: Box/Folder 1/26, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Incoming Letters
  - Description: Kell, Walter M. (U.S. Navy)
    
    Dates: 1946
    
    Container: Box/Folder 1/27, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Incoming Letters
  - Description: Kirsten, Agatha (wife)
    
    Dates: 1923
    
    Container: Box/Folder 1/28, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Incoming Letters
  - Description: Kirsten, Wolfgang (nephew)
    
    Dates: 1946
    
    Container: Box/Folder 1/29, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Incoming Letters
  - Description: Kirsten Pipe Company
    
    Dates: 1947
    
    Container: Box/Folder 1/30, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Incoming Letters
  - Description: Klemin, Alexander
    
    Dates: 1927, 1928, 1931
    
    Container: Box/Folder 1/31, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Incoming Letters
  - Description: Mallory, Earl
    
    Dates: 1925-1927, 1940
    
    Container: Box/Folder 1/32, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Incoming Letters
  - Description: Mihailoff, Nick
    
    Dates: 1937, 1941
    
    Container: Box/Folder 1/33, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Incoming Letters
  - Description: U.S. Navy Department (U.S. Navy Vessel LSM 458)
    
    Dates: 1945, 1946
    
    Container: Box/Folder 1/34, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Incoming Letters
  - Description: Northwest Tugboat Company ( Tugboat "Mystic")
    
    Dates: 1928
    
    Container: Box/Folder 1/35, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Incoming Letters
  - Description: Oil O Matic Heating Corporation (Bloomington , IL)
    
    Dates: 1929
    
    Container: Box/Folder 1/36, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Incoming Letters
  - Description: Pacific Car and Foundry Company
    
    Dates: 1944-1950
    
    Container: Box/Folder 1/37, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Incoming Letters
  - Description: Reynolds and Beach (Patent Attorneys)
    
    Dates: 1945-1952
    
    Container: Box/Folder 1/38-40, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Incoming Letters
  - Description: Reynolds and Beach (Sent to Pacific Card and Foundary)
    
    Dates: 1944-1949
    
    Container: Box/Folder 1/41, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Incoming Letters
  - Description: Ryan, John E
    
    Dates: 1942-1944, 1952
    
    Container: Box/Folder 1/42, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Incoming Letters
  - Description: Schnieder, George F
    
    Dates: 1946-1947
    
    Container: Box/Folder 1/43, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Incoming Letters
  - Description: Stone, Seymour
    
    Dates: 1944-1946
    
    Container: Box/Folder 1/44, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Incoming Letters
  - Description: Sudekum, Albert
    
    Dates: 1924-1933
    
    Container: Box/Folder 1/45, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Incoming Letters
  - Description: Voith-Schnieder Porpeller Company (J.M. Voith Company, K.J. Van Erp major correspondent)
    
    Dates: 1932-1941
    
    Container: Box/Folder 1/46, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Incoming Letters
  - Description: Wheelock, C.D. (U.S. Navy)
    
    Dates: 1951
    
    Container: Box/Folder 1/47, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Incoming Letters
  - Description: Miscellaneous
    
    Dates: 1909-1952
    
    Container: Box/Folder 1/48-55, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Incoming Letters
- Outgoing Letters
  - Description: Anderton, Jack H
    
    Dates: 1939-1942, 1946
    
    Container: Box/Folder 1/56, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Outgoing Letters
  - Description: Arnstein, Karl (Goodyear Zeppelin Corporation)
    
    Dates: 1929, 1937, 1938
    
    Container: Box/Folder 1/57, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Outgoing Letters
  - Description: Brazell, Nicholas J
    
    Dates: 1946-1948
    
    Container: Box/Folder 1/58, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Outgoing Letters
  - Description: Crim L.P.
    
    Dates: 1934-1942, 1946
    
    Container: Box/Folder 1/59, 60, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Outgoing Letters
  - Description: Doherty, R.E. (Gemeral Electric Company)
    
    Dates: 1928
    
    Container: Box/Folder 1/61, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Outgoing Letters
  - Description: Gardner, Lester
    
    Dates: 1934-1946
    
    Container: Box/Folder 1/62, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Outgoing Letters
  - Description: Harter, Isaac
    
    Dates: 1943
    
    Container: Box/Folder 1/63, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Outgoing Letters
  - Description: Hutter, Lester
    
    Dates: 1939-1943
    
    Container: Box/Folder 1/64, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Outgoing Letters
  - Description: Kirsten, Wolfgang, (nephew)
    
    Dates: 1946
    
    Container: Box/Folder 1/65, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Outgoing Letters
  - Description: Klemin, Alexander
    
    Dates: 1927, 1928, 1931
    
    Container: Box/Folder 1/66, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Outgoing Letters
  - Description: Mihailoff, Nick
    
    Dates: 1937, 1939
    
    Container: Box/Folder 1/67, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Outgoing Letters
  - Description: U.S. Navy Department (46 Foot Wooden Tug)
    
    Dates: 1944
    
    Container: Box/Folder 1/68, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Outgoing Letters
  - Description: Northwest Lumber Company (Tugboat "Mystic")
    
    Dates: 1928
    
    Container: Box/Folder 1/69, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Outgoing Letters
  - Description: Pacific Car and Foundry Company
    
    Dates: 1946-1950, undated
    
    Container: Box/Folder 1/70, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Outgoing Letters
  - Description: Ryan, John E
    
    Dates: 1941-1944
    
    Container: Box/Folder 1/71, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Outgoing Letters
  - Description: Sudekum, Albert
    
    Dates: 1924-1933
    
    Container: Box/Folder 1/72, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Outgoing Letters
  - Description: Voith-Schneider Propeller Company (J.M. Voith Company K.J. Van Erp major correspondent)
    
    Dates: 1932-1941
    
    Container: Box/Folder 1/73, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Outgoing Letters
  - Description: Wheelock, C.D.
    
    Dates: 1951, undated
    
    Container: Box/Folder 1/74, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Outgoing Letters
  - Description: Miscellaneous
    
    Dates: 1922-1952
    
    Container: Box/Folder 1/7-78, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Outgoing Letters
- General Correspondence
  - Description: "Curiosities"
    
    Dates: 1924-1942
    
    Container: Box/Folder 1/79, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / General Correspondence
  - Description: Correspondence with Colleagues in Germany
    
    Dates: 1924-1940
    
    Container: Box/Folder 1/80, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / General Correspondence
  - Description: Eugene Kirsten and Don Duncan Regarding Seattle Times Biographical Article
    
    Dates: 1971
    
    Container: Box/Folder 1/81, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / General Correspondence
  - Description: Letters of Introduction
    
    Dates: 1923, 1936
    
    Container: Box/Folder 1/82, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / General Correspondence
  - Description: National Association of Inventors
    
    Dates: 1926
    
    Container: Box/Folder 1/83, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / General Correspondence
  - Description: Publicity
    
    Dates: 1935, 1940-1942
    
    Container: Box/Folder 1/84, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / General Correspondence
  - Description: Speaking Engagements
    
    Dates: 1925, 1930-1943
    
    Container: Box/Folder 1/85-3, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / General Correspondence
  - Description: Studies Conducted for Others (Transmission Lines, Barrel Type Engines)
    
    Dates: 1922,1924, 1925
    
    Container: Box/Folder 2/4, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / General Correspondence
  - Description: Thank you Letters for Speakuing Engagements
    
    Dates: 1927-1947
    
    Container: Box/Folder 2/5, 6, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / General Correspondence
  - Description: Wind Tunnel Publicity
    
    Dates: 1937
    
    Container: Box/Folder 2/7, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / General Correspondence
- Financial Records
  - Description: U.S. Treasury Department Correspondence, Receipts
    
    Dates: 1930, 1947
    
    Container: Box/Folder 2/8, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Financial Records
  - Description: Salary Information
    
    Dates: undated
    
    Container: Box/Folder 2/10, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Financial Records
- Legal Information
  - Description: Passport
    
    Dates: 1924
    
    Container: Box/Folder 2/10, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Legal Information
  - Description: Employment Contract (Agreement for Services-American Nitrogen Products Company)
    
    Dates: 1919
    
    Container: Box/Folder 2/11, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Legal Information
  - Description: License for Wooden Hull Construction (New Jersey Shipbuilding Corporation)
    
    Dates: 1945
    
    Container: Box/Folder 2/12, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Legal Information
  - Description: Agreement (Pacific Car and Foundary Company for Manufacture and Sales of Cycloidal Propulsion Propellers and Mechanisms) Second Supplemental
    
    Dates: 1944
    
    Container: Box/Folder 2/13, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Legal Information
  - Description: Second Supplemental Agreement (Pacific Car and Foundry)
    
    Dates: 1945
    
    Container: Box/Folder 2/13, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Legal Information
  - Description: Agreement (Pacific Car and Foundry)
    
    Dates: 1946
    
    Container: Box/Folder 2/13, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Legal Information
  - Description: Agreement (Hastings Trading Company)
    
    Dates: 1944
    
    Container: Box/Folder 2/14, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Legal Information
  - Description: Agreement (With John F Schneider Regarding Cyclodial Propeller)
    
    Dates: 1946
    
    Container: Box/Folder 2/15, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Legal Information
  - Description: Agreement (with A.L. Morehouse Regarding Kirsten Pipe)
    
    Dates: 1938
    
    Container: Box/Folder 2/15, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Legal Information
  - Description: License Agreement (with Francis J Dohrer Regarding Dust Machine)
    
    Dates: 1941
    
    Container: Box/Folder 2/16, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Legal Information
  - Description: License Agreement (with R.M. Gates Regarding Dust Machine)
    
    Dates: 1941
    
    Container: Box/Folder 2/16, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Legal Information
  - Description: License Agreement (With United Specialities Company)
    
    Dates: 1941
    
    Container: Box/Folder 2/17, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Legal Information
  - Description: License Agreement (With George Gun Jr. Regarding Kirsten Pipe)
    
    Dates: 1938
    
    Container: Box/Folder 2/18, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Legal Information
  - Description: Cancellation of License Agreement with George Gunn Jr.
    
    Dates: 1944
    
    Container: Box/Folder 2/18, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Legal Information
  - Description: Assignment of Sales Rights of Kirsten Pipe and/or Cigarrete Holder from George Gunn Jr. to Kirsten Pipe Company
    
    Dates: 1938
    
    Container: Box/Folder 2/19, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Legal Information
  - Description: Assignment to Kirsten from George F. Schneider Patent Rights for Propeller Thrust Coordinating Mechanism
    
    Dates: 1947
    
    Container: Box/Folder 2/20, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Legal Information
  - Description: Assignment to Kirsten from Ellis C Hendrickson Patent Rights for Multiplex Bevel Gearing
    
    Dates: 1945
    
    Container: Box/Folder 2/21, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Legal Information
  - Description: Cyclodial Propeller Control Mechanism Patent
    
    Dates: 1950
    
    Container: Box/Folder 2/22, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Legal Information
  - Description: Ellis C. Hendrickson Assignor to Kirsten for Multiplex Bevel Gearing Patent
    
    Dates: 1949
    
    Container: Box/Folder 2/23, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Legal Information
  - Description: British Patent for Multiplex Bevel Gearing Patent
    
    Dates: 1952
    
    Container: Box/Folder 2/24, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Legal Information
  - Description: Cyclodial Aircraft Patent; Canadian Patent for Directly Heated Cathode Electrodes
    
    Dates: 1937, 1940
    
    Container: Box/Folder 2/25, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Legal Information
  - Description: Stump Pulling Process Patent; Hull Construction Patent; Cigarette Holder Registration
    
    Dates: 1917, 1946, 1938
    
    Container: Box/Folder 2/26, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Legal Information
  - Description: Patent Petitions for Kirsten Pipe
    
    Dates: undated
    
    Container: Box/Folder 2/27, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Legal Information
  - Description: Patent Petitions for Cigarette Holder
    
    Dates: undated
    
    Container: Box/Folder 2/28, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Legal Information
  - Patent Applications
    - Description: Multiplex Bevel Gearing
      
      Dates: undated
      
      Container: Box/Folder 2/29, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Legal Information / Patent Applications
    - Description: Art of Dust Control
      
      Dates: undated
      
      Container: Box/Folder 2/30, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Legal Information / Patent Applications
    - Description: Power Transmitting Chain Links (with Sample Links)
      
      Container: Box/Folder 2/31, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Legal Information / Patent Applications
    - Description: Wooden Ship Hull
      
      Container: Box/Folder 2/32, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Legal Information / Patent Applications
  - Patent Descriptions
    - Description: Amplified Blade Movement Drive, Pitch and Thrust Direction Control Mechanism
      
      Dates: undated
      
      Container: Box/Folder 2/33, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Legal Information / Patent Descriptions
  - Description: Parabolic Celing; Air Conditioned Bed
    
    Container: Box/Folder 2/34, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Legal Information
  - Description: Patent Specifications
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Legal Information
  - Description: Electric Switch, Toothed Gearing Improvements, Cycloidal Propeller, Marine Propulsion Improvement, Engine Driven Marine Vessel
    
    Dates: undated
    
    Container: Box/Folder 2/35, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Legal Information
- Speechs and Writings (by Kirsten)
  - Description: List of Lectures
    
    Dates: 1937-1941
    
    Container: Box/Folder 2/36, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Speechs and Writings (by Kirsten)
  - Description: Notes for Speeches
    
    Dates: undated
    
    Container: Box/Folder 2/37, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Speechs and Writings (by Kirsten)
  - Description: Speaking Notices
    
    Dates: 1928-1947
    
    Container: Box/Folder 2/38, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Speechs and Writings (by Kirsten)
  - Description: Radio Talks
    
    Dates: 1935-1936
    
    Container: Box/Folder 2/39, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Speechs and Writings (by Kirsten)
  - Speeches
    - Description: "The Ego in Science, Pedagogy and Engineering;" "Energy;" "Cyclodial Aircraft; "
      
      Dates: 1927, 1929, 1930
      
      Container: Box/Folder 2/40, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Speechs and Writings (by Kirsten) / Speeches
    - Description: "The Technical Age;" "A New Deal in Aeronautics"
      
      Dates: 1930, 1933-1934
      
      Container: Box/Folder 2/41, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Speechs and Writings (by Kirsten) / Speeches
    - Description: "The Nature of Scientific Knowledge from the Point of View of the Engineer"
      
      Dates: 1935
      
      Container: Box/Folder 2/42, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Speechs and Writings (by Kirsten) / Speeches
    - Description: "The Future of Science;" "War from the Viewpoint of the Engineer;" "Our Air Defenses"
      
      Dates: 1939, 1940, 1941
      
      Container: Box/Folder 2/43, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Speechs and Writings (by Kirsten) / Speeches
    - Description: Convocation Address to Eastern Washington College of Education; "The Building of the West; "The Function of the University in National Defense;"
      
      Dates: 1943, undated, 1947
      
      Container: Box/Folder 2/44, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Speechs and Writings (by Kirsten) / Speeches
    - Description: "The Human Brain from a Pedagogical Standpoint"
      
      Dates: undated
      
      Container: Box/Folder 2/45, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Speechs and Writings (by Kirsten) / Speeches
    - Description: B.S.E.E. Thesis-" A Design of a Hydo Electric Power Plant for the Utilization of the Over Flow Water of Lake Washington and an Estimate of it Economic Value"
      
      Dates: 1909
      
      Container: Box/Folder 2/46, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Speechs and Writings (by Kirsten) / Speeches
    - Description: American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Paper Given at Stanford University-Characteristics of Cycloidal Aircraft, Their Performance and Stability in Flight
      
      Dates: 1928
      
      Container: Box/Folder 2/47, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Speechs and Writings (by Kirsten) / Speeches
    - Description: Presentation and Discussion of ASME Paper in Detroit
      
      Dates: 1928
      
      Container: Box/Folder 2/48, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Speechs and Writings (by Kirsten) / Speeches
    - Description: Paper-Cycloidal Aircraft
      
      Dates: undated
      
      Container: Box/Folder 2/49, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Speechs and Writings (by Kirsten) / Speeches
    - Description: Paper-Cycloidal Propulsion Applied to Aircraft
      
      Dates: undated
      
      Container: Box/Folder 2/50, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Speechs and Writings (by Kirsten) / Speeches
  - Unfoldered Items
    - Description: UW Engineering Experiment Station-Bulletin #17-Transmission Line Design Part I, Mechanical Features
      
      Dates: 1923
      
      Container: Box/Folder 2/50, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Speechs and Writings (by Kirsten) / Unfoldered Items
    - Description: UWEES Bulletin #32-Transmission Line Design, Part 2-Electrical Features, The Line of Maximum Economy
      
      Dates: 1925
      
      Container: Box/Folder 2/50, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Speechs and Writings (by Kirsten) / Unfoldered Items
    - Description: UWEES Bulletin #44-The 500 Mile Transmission Line with Distributed Synchronous Condenser Capacity
      
      Dates: 1928
      
      Container: Box/Folder 2/50, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Speechs and Writings (by Kirsten) / Unfoldered Items
    - Description: UWEES Bulletin #79-Cycloidal Propulsion in Air
      
      Dates: 1935
      
      Container: Box/Folder 2/50, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Speechs and Writings (by Kirsten) / Unfoldered Items
    - Description: Final Draft-UWWEES Bulletin #32
      
      Dates: 1925
      
      Container: Box/Folder 2/51, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Speechs and Writings (by Kirsten) / Unfoldered Items
    - Description: Rough Draft for UWES Bulletin #79
      
      Dates: 1935
      
      Container: Box/Folder 2/52, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Speechs and Writings (by Kirsten) / Unfoldered Items
    - Description: Final Draft for UWEES Bulletin #79
      
      Dates: 1935
      
      Container: Box/Folder 2/53, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Speechs and Writings (by Kirsten) / Unfoldered Items
    - Description: Edited Reprint of UWEES Bulletin #79
      
      Dates: undated
      
      Container: Box/Folder 2/54, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Speechs and Writings (by Kirsten) / Unfoldered Items
    - Description: Sequel and Supplement to UWEES Bulletin #79-Cycloidal Propulsion in Water Marine Developments
      
      Dates: undated
      
      Container: Box/Folder 2/55, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Speechs and Writings (by Kirsten) / Unfoldered Items
    - Description: Paper: The Fixed Pitch Cyclodial Marine Propeller, Pitch Ratio Pi, Stress Analysis of Blades
      
      Dates: undated
      
      Container: Box/Folder 2/56, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Speechs and Writings (by Kirsten) / Unfoldered Items
    - Description: Paper: Determination of the Maximum Blade Loading for Pi Pitch Ratio Cycloidal Propellers
      
      Dates: undated
      
      Container: Box/Folder 2/57, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Speechs and Writings (by Kirsten) / Unfoldered Items
    - Description: Paper: The Variable Pitch Cycloidal Marine Propeller, Pitch ration 0-0.8 Pi, Stress Analysis of Blades
      
      Dates: undated
      
      Container: Box/Folder 2/58, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Speechs and Writings (by Kirsten) / Unfoldered Items
    - Description: Manual for the Operation and Maintenance of the 1800 hp 7ft Orbit Diameter 120rpm Fixed Pi.
      
      Dates: undated
      
      Container: Box/Folder 2/59, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Speechs and Writings (by Kirsten) / Unfoldered Items
    - Description: Rough Draft: Cycloidal Propulsion in Marine Application
      
      Dates: undated
      
      Container: Box/Folder 2/60, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Speechs and Writings (by Kirsten) / Unfoldered Items
    - Description: Final Draft: Cycloidal Propulsion in Marine Application
      
      Dates: 1950
      
      Container: Box/Folder 2/61, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Speechs and Writings (by Kirsten) / Unfoldered Items
    - Description: Discussion by Kirsten of Paper by E.F. Hewins-Vertical Axis Propeller Installation
      
      Dates: undated
      
      Container: Box/Folder 2/62, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Speechs and Writings (by Kirsten) / Unfoldered Items
    - Description: Reprinted Article from SAE Journal: A New Type of Propeller
      
      Dates: 1928
      
      Container: Box/Folder 2/63, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Speechs and Writings (by Kirsten) / Unfoldered Items
    - Description: Paper: Design of Spiral Bevel Gear Train of Maximum Diametral Dimensions for Transmission of Maximum Power
      
      Dates: undated
      
      Container: Box/Folder 2/64, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Speechs and Writings (by Kirsten) / Unfoldered Items
    - Description: Paper: The Effectiveness of Aircraft in the Present European War
      
      Dates: undated
      
      Container: Box/Folder 2/65, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Speechs and Writings (by Kirsten) / Unfoldered Items
    - Description: Paper-Transmission Line Design
      
      Dates: undated
      
      Container: Box/Folder 2/66, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Speechs and Writings (by Kirsten) / Unfoldered Items
    - Description: Paper: The Hydro-Electric Power Plant 'Electron"
      
      Dates: undated
      
      Container: Box/Folder 2/67, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Speechs and Writings (by Kirsten) / Unfoldered Items
- Speeches and Writings (by Others)
  - Description: Vertical Propeller Installation on the Ferry "Northampton;" Relpies to Hewins Paper by Kirsten, N.J. Brazell, and Others
    
    Dates: 1950
    
    Container: Box/Folder 3/1, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Speeches and Writings (by Others)
  - Description: Paper Number 5: "Controllable Pitch Propellers;" Commander Lewis A Rupp, U.S. Navy
    
    Dates: 1948
    
    Container: Box/Folder 3/2, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Speeches and Writings (by Others)
  - Description: Discussion of Paper No. 5 by N.J. Brazell and Others
    
    Dates: 1950
    
    Container: Box/Folder 3/3, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Speeches and Writings (by Others)
  - Description: U.W. Aeronautical Laboratory (UWAL) Report #174A-"We Must Produce this Super Plane Before Our Opponents" by Fred S Eastman et. al. with Letter to the Reader By Eastman, Addendum Entitled "Cycloidal Propulsion for Aircraft" by Kirsten; Instructions for Model Installation by UWAL
    
    Dates: 1942; 1940
    
    Container: Box/Folder 3/4, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Speeches and Writings (by Others)
  - Description: UWAL Report #174A with Introductory Letter to Commander Walter S Diehl from Fred S Eastman
    
    Dates: 1942
    
    Container: Box/Folder 3/5, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Speeches and Writings (by Others)
  - Description: UWAL Report #191A-Wind Tunnel Tests on on a High Pitch Cyclogyro by Fred S Eastman et. al.
    
    Dates: 1943
    
    Container: Box/Folder 3/6, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Speeches and Writings (by Others)
  - Description: "New Theories in Cycloidal Propulsion" Herbert Boehmer
    
    Dates: 1933
    
    Container: Box/Folder 3/7, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Speeches and Writings (by Others)
  - Description: UWAL Report #257- Wind Tunnel Test on Amplified High Pitched Cyclogyro by Ralph D Baxter
    
    Dates: 1946
    
    Container: Box/Folder 3/8-9, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Speeches and Writings (by Others)
  - Description: "Tests of Six Symmetrical Airfoils in the Variable Density Wind Tunnel," Eastman N Jacobs
    
    Dates: 1931
    
    Container: Box/Folder 3/10, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Speeches and Writings (by Others)
  - Description: "Further Tests of the Three Foot Hexagonal Wind Tunnel" Harold L Adams and Richard L Stith
    
    Dates: "1930
    
    Container: Box/Folder 3/11, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Speeches and Writings (by Others)
  - Description: "L'Eclairage par Luminescence," Andre Claude; "Perpetual Motioin and its Relation to Science," R.C. Davis; "Importance of Engineering Research to Education, "F. Burt Farqharson (also mention of Kirsten retirement in journal); "Steam Turbine Bucket Variations," C.F. Green
    
    Dates: 1939; undated; 1951; 1928
    
    Container: Box/Folder 3/12, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Speeches and Writings (by Others)
  - Description: "Investigation of a New Internal Combustion Engine Cycle" Bert Vern Hoard
    
    Dates: 1925
    
    Container: Box/Folder 3/13, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Speeches and Writings (by Others)
  - Description: "The Building Stones of Matter," P. Jordan;" Apparatus for Micro and Semimicrodetermination of Nitrogen According to Dumas," Wolfgang Kirsten
    
    Dates: 1937, undated
    
    Container: Box/Folder 3/14, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Speeches and Writings (by Others)
  - Description: "A Study of the Flights of Seagulls, Robert C Miller," "Windmotor," W. Schmeidler; "Group Method of Harmonic Analysis Requiring Twenty-Four Ordinates and Givign Eleven Harmonics Both Odd and Even," H.V. Putman
    
    Dates: 1923, 1925, 1936, 1922
    
    Container: Box/Folder 3/15, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Speeches and Writings (by Others)
  - Description: "Collecting Pacific Northwest Americana," Charles W Smith; "A Method of Estimating the Proportion of Red Light Emitted by a Source with Particular Reference to Gas Discharge Lamps " G.T. Winch; "The Turbine Designers Wind Tunnel," Lorign Wirt; "A Convertible Aircraft Carrier System," E Burke Wilford
    
    Dates: 1939; 1934, 1924, 1950
    
    Container: Box/Folder 3/16, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Speeches and Writings (by Others)
- Report Files
  - Description: Reports to the U.S. Navy by N.J. Brazell Regarding Cycloidal and Screw Type Propellers
    
    Dates: 1944
    
    Container: Box/Folder 3/17, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Report Files
  - Description: Electrical Tests Performed for A Blanstein of Electro-Development Corporation of America
    
    Dates: 1945
    
    Container: Box/Folder 3/18, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Report Files
- New Releases
  - Description: U.W. News Service-Regarding Cycloidal Propulsion and Wind Tunnel
    
    Dates: undated
    
    Container: Box/Folder 3/19, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / New Releases
- Subject Series
  - Description: Cycloidal Propulsion in Air: Drawings, Graphs, Calculations
    
    Dates: undated
    
    Container: Box/Folder 3/20, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subject Series
  - Description: Photographs and Photostatic Reporductions:Cyclogyro Drawings, Propeller Blades, Tests
    
    Dates: undated
    
    Container: Box/Folder 3/21, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subject Series
  - Description: Drawings, Graphs, Cyclogyro
    
    Dates: undated
    
    Container: Box/Folder 3/22, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subject Series
  - Description: Negatives: Cyclogyro
    
    Dates: undated
    
    Container: Box/Folder 3/23, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subject Series
  - Description: Photographs and Photostatic Reproductions: Gyrocopter Blades
    
    Dates: undated
    
    Container: Box/Folder 3/24, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subject Series
  - Description: Photostatic Reproductions and Negatives-Cycloidally Propelled Dirigible
    
    Dates: 1933-1940
    
    Container: Box/Folder 3/25, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subject Series
  - Description: News Clippings
    
    Dates: 1933
    
    Container: Box/Folder 3/26, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subject Series
  - Description: Article-Time Magazine
    
    Dates: 1940
    
    Container: Box/Folder 3/27, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subject Series
  - Description: Cycloidal Propulsion in Water, Naval Test Results; Propeller Characteristic Graphs Computed by Fred Eastman; Propeller Element paths, Drawings, Grafts
    
    Dates: 1940, 1944
    
    Container: Box/Folder 3/28, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subject Series
  - Description: Notes, Calculations
    
    Dates: undated
    
    Container: Box/Folder 3/29, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subject Series
  - Description: Calculations
    
    Dates: undated
    
    Container: Box/Folder 3/30, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subject Series
  - Description: Inertial Calculations for Propeller Blades
    
    Dates: undated
    
    Container: Box/Folder 3/31, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subject Series
  - Description: Blueprints: Propeller and Gearing by Pacific Car and Foundry Company
    
    Dates: 1947-1949
    
    Container: Box/Folder 3/32, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subject Series
  - Description: Photographs, Negatives Photostatic Reproductions: Early Test Engines, Blades and Gearing, Early Boat Test
    
    Dates: 1925, 1929
    
    Container: Box/Folder 3/33, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subject Series
  - Description: News Clippings (U.S. and German)
    
    Dates: 1933
    
    Container: Box/Folder 3/34, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subject Series
  - Description: Borchure-Pacific Car and Foundry Company; Article: Business Week; Articles: Shipyard Bulletin
    
    Dates: undated, 1948, 1949
    
    Container: Box/Folder 3/35, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subject Series
  - Description: 46 Foort Wooden tug: Hull Drag Computations
    
    Container: Box/Folder 3/36, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subject Series
  - Description: General Cycloidal Propulsion; Outline for Textbook; Miscellaneous Drawings, Calculations and Notes
    
    Dates: undated
    
    Container: Box/Folder 3/37, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subject Series
  - Naval Vessel LSM 458
    - Description: Report: Standardization Fuel Economy and Tactical Trials by Puget Sound Naval Shipyard Scientific and Test Group
      
      Dates: 1946
      
      Container: Box/Folder 3/38-39, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subject Series / Naval Vessel LSM 458
    - Description: Tests, Speed Calculations, Graphs, mostly by N.J. Brazell
      
      Dates: 1944-1946
      
      Container: Box/Folder 3/40, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subject Series / Naval Vessel LSM 458
    - Description: Report: Cavitation Notes (with enclosures) by N.J. Brazell regarding propeller efficiencies of LSM 201 and LSM 458
      
      Dates: 1950
      
      Container: Box/Folder 3/41, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subject Series / Naval Vessel LSM 458
    - Description: Drawings by Pacific Car and Foundry Company
      
      Dates: 1944
      
      Container: Box/Folder 3/42, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subject Series / Naval Vessel LSM 458
    - Description: Photographs, Procedure for Application of Donation of a Navy Ship
      
      Dates: 1944
      
      Container: Box/Folder 3/43, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subject Series / Naval Vessel LSM 458
  - Naval Motor Torpedo Boat PT 8
    - Description: Report: Stress Analysis of Cycloidal Propeller Blade for 4ft. Orbit Diameter Pi Ptich Ratio Propeller by Kirsten; Application of Foregoing Analysis to the Blade Design of Pi Ptich Ratio Cycloidal Propeller of the Navy Motor Torpedo Boat PT 8 by Kirsten
      
      Dates: undated
      
      Container: Box/Folder 3/44, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subject Series / Naval Motor Torpedo Boat PT 8
    - Description: Report: Faired Curves and tabulated Data Giving the Results of the Ex PT Cycloidal Propeller trials by Jack Posner, Navy Department
      
      Dates: 1951
      
      Container: Box/Folder 3/45, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subject Series / Naval Motor Torpedo Boat PT 8
    - Description: Report: PT8 Cycloidal Propeller Working Stress Analysis by C.A. Ryman; Design Graphics and Calculations by C.A. Ryman
      
      Dates: 1947
      
      Container: Box/Folder 3/46, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subject Series / Naval Motor Torpedo Boat PT 8
    - Description: Report: Purchase Specifications Kirsten Pi Pitch and Controllable Pitch Cycloidal Propellers for Installation on PTS by Bureau of Ships, Navy Department; Drawings: Installation of Kirsten Propellers on a PT Boat
      
      Dates: 1946, undated
      
      Container: Box/Folder 3/47, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subject Series / Naval Motor Torpedo Boat PT 8
    - Description: Test Agenda; for MTL 2336 (also fitted with Kirsten Propellers)
      
      Dates: 1948
      
      Container: Box/Folder 3/48, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subject Series / Naval Motor Torpedo Boat PT 8
    - Description: Calculations and Graphs from Naval Tests; Tests Performed by Admiral Taylor; Other Drawings and Calculations
      
      Dates: 1945, 1950, 1923, undated
      
      Container: Box/Folder 3/49, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subject Series / Naval Motor Torpedo Boat PT 8
  - Voith-Schnieder Company
    - Description: Bulletin #1000 by Voith Schneider Company; Bulletin #1037 by Voith-Schneider Company
      
      Dates: 1935, 1942
      
      Container: Box/Folder 3/50, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subject Series / Voith-Schnieder Company
    - Description: "The Voith Schneider Drive," D.E. Goldsworthy and W.J.F. Clerc; "Voith Schneider System for Marine Propulsion," E.C. Goldsworthy; " "Cyclodial Propulsion, M.V. Lali, E.C. Goldsworthy; "A Novel Propeller for Motorvessels," unknown
      
      Dates: 1936, 1939, 1946, 1933
      
      Container: Box/Folder 3/51, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subject Series / Voith-Schnieder Company
    - Description: Report: Circulating Water Channel for Ship Model Tests by Hand F Mueller (with photographs); German Report for Voith Schneider Company by Hans F Mueller
      
      Dates: 1938
      
      Container: Box/Folder 3/52, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subject Series / Voith-Schnieder Company
    - Description: Naval Propeller Test Results for YMP-2 Mine Planter 1951
      
      Dates: 1951
      
      Container: Box/Folder 3/53, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subject Series / Voith-Schnieder Company
    - Description: German News Clipping and Articles
      
      Dates: 1930-1933
      
      Container: Box/Folder 3/54, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subject Series / Voith-Schnieder Company
  - Cycloidal Windmill
    - Description: Notes and Calculations
      
      Dates: undated
      
      Container: Box/Folder 3/55, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subject Series / Cycloidal Windmill
    - Description: Graphs
      
      Dates: undated
      
      Container: Box/Folder 3/56, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subject Series / Cycloidal Windmill
    - Description: Drawings and Blueprints
      
      Dates: undated
      
      Container: Box/Folder 3/57, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subject Series / Cycloidal Windmill
    - Description: Photostatic Reproductions: New York City Wind Velocities
      
      Dates: 1942
      
      Container: Box/Folder 3/58, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subject Series / Cycloidal Windmill
    - Description: News Clippings and Photostatic Reproductions of News Clippins
      
      Dates: 1927, 1943-1945
      
      Container: Box/Folder 3/59, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subject Series / Cycloidal Windmill
  - Aeuronautical Engineering Department
    - Description: Professional Records of Fred Eastman, Edmund Ryder, V.J. Martin, R.J. White; Course Descriptions
      
      Dates: undated
      
      Container: Box/Folder 4/1, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subject Series / Aeuronautical Engineering Department
  - Air Raid Siren
    - Description: Incoming Letters
      
      Dates: 1942
      
      Container: Box/Folder 4/2, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subject Series / Air Raid Siren
    - Description: Outgoing Letters
      
      Dates: 1972
      
      Container: Box/Folder 4/3, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subject Series / Air Raid Siren
    - Description: Drawings, Calcuations, News Clippings
      
      Dates: undated
      
      Container: Box/Folder 4/4, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subject Series / Air Raid Siren
    - Description: Photographs (some oversize)
      
      Dates: undated
      
      Container: Box/Folder 6/1, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subject Series / Air Raid Siren
  - American Nitrogen Products Company
    - Description: Blueprints for Duriron Castings, Drawing
      
      Dates: undated
      
      Container: Box/Folder 4/5, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subject Series / American Nitrogen Products Company
  - Dust Machine
    - Description: General Correspondence
      
      Dates: 1941-1944
      
      Container: Box/Folder 4/6, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subject Series / Dust Machine
    - Description: Outgoing Letters from David P. Eastman
      
      Dates: 1941
      
      Container: Box/Folder 4/7, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subject Series / Dust Machine
    - Description: Report: Vortex Analysis by Kirsten with Discussion by David P Eastman
      
      Dates: 1942
      
      Container: Box/Folder 4/8, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subject Series / Dust Machine
    - Description: Reports, Description
      
      Dates: undated
      
      Container: Box/Folder 4/9, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subject Series / Dust Machine
    - Description: Photographs, Drawings and Calculations
      
      Dates: undated
      
      Container: Box/Folder 4/10, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subject Series / Dust Machine
    - Description: New Clippings
      
      Dates: undated
      
      Container: Box/Folder 4/11, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subject Series / Dust Machine
  - Hi Intensity Lighting
    - Description: Incoming Letters
      
      Dates: 1933-1941
      
      Container: Box/Folder 4/12, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subject Series / Hi Intensity Lighting
    - Description: Outgoing Letters
      
      Dates: 1931-1938
      
      Container: Box/Folder 4/13, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subject Series / Hi Intensity Lighting
    - Description: General Correspondence-Testimonials
      
      Dates: 1933, 1934, 1937
      
      Container: Box/Folder 4/14, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subject Series / Hi Intensity Lighting
    - Description: Report-Luminous Gasses for Domestic Illustration by Kirsten, Descriptions
      
      Dates: undated
      
      Container: Box/Folder 4/15, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subject Series / Hi Intensity Lighting
    - Description: Photographs, Announcement
      
      Dates: undated
      
      Container: Box/Folder 4/16, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subject Series / Hi Intensity Lighting
    - Description: News Clippings
      
      Dates: undated
      
      Container: Box/Folder 4/17, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subject Series / Hi Intensity Lighting
    - Description: Kirsten Lighting Corporation: Meeting Notices, Financial Records
      
      Dates: 1937, 1940, 1934
      
      Container: Box/Folder 4/18, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subject Series / Hi Intensity Lighting
  - Instructional Wind Tunnel (3 ft. Hexagonal Wind Tunnel)
    - Description: Drawings, Data, Graphs
      
      Dates: undated
      
      Container: Box/Folder 4/19, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subject Series / Instructional Wind Tunnel (3 ft. Hexagonal Wind Tunnel)
    - Description: Photographs and Negatives
      
      Dates: undated
      
      Container: Box/Folder 4/20, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subject Series / Instructional Wind Tunnel (3 ft. Hexagonal Wind Tunnel)
  - Kirsten Wind Tunnel
    - Description: Reports and Reprinted Articles by Kirsten and Fred Eastman
      
      Dates: undated
      
      Container: Box/Folder 4/21, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subject Series / Kirsten Wind Tunnel
    - Description: Drawings
      
      Dates: undated
      
      Container: Box/Folder 4/22, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subject Series / Kirsten Wind Tunnel
    - Description: Photographs amd Negatives: Wind Tunnel Construction
      
      Dates: 1936
      
      Container: Box/Folder 4/23, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subject Series / Kirsten Wind Tunnel
    - Description: Photographs and Negatives: Wind Tunnel Tests
      
      Dates: undated
      
      Container: Box/Folder 4/24, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subject Series / Kirsten Wind Tunnel
    - Description: News Clippings
      
      Dates: 1930-1937
      
      Container: Box/Folder 4/25, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subject Series / Kirsten Wind Tunnel
    - Description: Articles
      
      Dates: 1941-1988
      
      Container: Box/Folder 4/26, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subject Series / Kirsten Wind Tunnel
    - Description: Small Leather Notebook with data for Unknown Experiments
      
      Dates: undated
      
      Container: Box 4, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subject Series / Kirsten Wind Tunnel
  - Kirsten Pipe
    - Description: Sketches and Drawings by Kirsten Pipe Company
      
      Dates: 1938-1948
      
      Container: Box/Folder 4/27, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subject Series / Kirsten Pipe
    - Description: Incomplete Writing Regarding the Inventing of the Kirsten Pipe
      
      Dates: undated
      
      Container: Box/Folder 4/28, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subject Series / Kirsten Pipe
    - Description: Photograph, Brochure, Mail Orderm News Clippings
      
      Dates: undated
      
      Container: Box/Folder 4/29, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subject Series / Kirsten Pipe
  - Mechanized Bed
    - Description: Incoming Letters
      
      Dates: 1940-1942
      
      Container: Box/Folder 4/30-32, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subject Series / Mechanized Bed
    - Description: Outgoing Letters
      
      Dates: 1940-1942
      
      Container: Box/Folder 4/33-34, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subject Series / Mechanized Bed
    - Description: Description, Drawings, Calculations, News Clippings
      
      Dates: 1940
      
      Container: Box/Folder 4/35, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subject Series / Mechanized Bed
  - Moth Trap
    - Description: Incoming Letters
      
      Dates: 1939-1941
      
      Container: Box/Folder 4/36-39, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subject Series / Moth Trap
    - Description: Outgoing Letters
      
      Dates: 1939-1941
      
      Container: Box/Folder 4/40-41, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subject Series / Moth Trap
    - Description: Reports, Drawings, Calculations
      
      Dates: 1941
      
      Container: Box/Folder 4/42, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subject Series / Moth Trap
    - Description: News Clippings, Reprinted Articles
      
      Dates: undated
      
      Container: Box/Folder 4/43, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subject Series / Moth Trap
  - Parabolic Pump
    - Description: General Correspondence-A.J. Giraldi
      
      Dates: undated
      
      Container: Box/Folder 4/44, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subject Series / Parabolic Pump
    - Description: Notes, Calculations, Drawings, Photographs
      
      Dates: 1936
      
      Container: Box/Folder 4/45, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subject Series / Parabolic Pump
  - Realschule Grossenhein
    - Description: 50 Year Publication
      
      Dates: undated
      
      Container: Box/Folder 4/46, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subject Series / Realschule Grossenhein
  - Transmission Line Design
    - Description: General Correspondence
      
      Dates: 1921-1925
      
      Container: Box/Folder 4/48, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subject Series / Transmission Line Design
    - Description: Notes and Calculations
      
      Dates: undated
      
      Container: Box/Folder 4/49, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subject Series / Transmission Line Design
    - Description: Photostatic Reproductions and Transparencies-Floor Plans for Miscellaneous Power Stations
      
      Dates: undated
      
      Container: Box/Folder 4/50, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subject Series / Transmission Line Design
    - Description: Photographs and Negatives: Big Creek Development, Power Lines Near Bakersfield
      
      Dates: undated
      
      Container: Box/Folder 4/51, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subject Series / Transmission Line Design
  - Photostatic Reproductions: Big Creek Development
    - Description: Power House #1
      
      Dates: 1912-1914
      
      Container: Box/Folder 4/52, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subject Series / Photostatic Reproductions: Big Creek Development
    - Description: Power House #2
      
      Dates: 1912-1914
      
      Container: Box/Folder 4/53, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subject Series / Photostatic Reproductions: Big Creek Development
    - Description: Eagle Rock Substation
      
      Dates: 1913
      
      Container: Box/Folder 4/54-56, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subject Series / Photostatic Reproductions: Big Creek Development
    - Description: Bakersfield Switching Station; Big Creek Substation
      
      Dates: 1913
      
      Container: Box/Folder 4/57, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subject Series / Photostatic Reproductions: Big Creek Development
    - Description: Blueprints: Big Creek Development, Power House #2 Bakersfield Switching Station, Iron Conduit Capacity Curves
      
      Dates: 1913, 1914
      
      Container: Box/Folder 4/58, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subject Series / Photostatic Reproductions: Big Creek Development
    - Description: Photostatic Reporductions: White River Salmon Development
      
      Dates: 1912, 1913
      
      Container: Box/Folder 4/59, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subject Series / Photostatic Reproductions: Big Creek Development
    - Description: Blueprints: White Salmon River Development
      
      Dates: 1912, 1913
      
      Container: Box/Folder 4/60, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subject Series / Photostatic Reproductions: Big Creek Development
  - Window Testing for M Reuter and Sons
    - Description: General Correspodence
      
      Dates: undated
      
      Container: Box/Folder 4/61, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subject Series / Window Testing for M Reuter and Sons
    - Description: Reports, Bulletins, Photographs
      
      Dates: 1931, 1937, 1938
      
      Container: Box/Folder 4/62, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subject Series / Window Testing for M Reuter and Sons
    - Description: Photographs
      
      Dates: 1937, 1938
      
      Container: Box/Folder 4/63, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subject Series / Window Testing for M Reuter and Sons
- Photographs
  - Description: Oversize Photograph of Kirsten
    
    Dates: undated
    
    Container: Box/Folder 6/2, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Photographs
  - Description: Personal
    
    Dates: undated
    
    Container: Box/Folder 4/64, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Photographs
  - Description: Fred S Eastman, Major L.P. Crim.
    
    Dates: undated
    
    Container: Box/Folder 4/65, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Photographs
  - Description: Bird Flight
    
    Dates: undated
    
    Container: Box/Folder 4/66, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Photographs
  - Description: Dr. Frederich William Meisnest 80th Birthday Party
    
    Dates: undated
    
    Container: Box/Folder 4/67, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Photographs
  - Description: Miscellaneous Technical Materials
    
    Dates: undated
    
    Container: Box/Folder 4/68, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Photographs
- Clippings
  - Description: Inventions, Interviews, Topics of Interest
    
    Dates: 1927-1942, 1972
    
    Container: Box/Folder 5/1, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Clippings
  - Description: "Curiosities"
    
    Dates: undated
    
    Container: Box/Folder 5/2, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Clippings
  - Description: Miscellaneous
    
    Dates: 1943-1971
    
    Container: Box/Folder 5/3, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Clippings
  - Description: Miscellaneous German
    
    Dates: 1906
    
    Container: Box/Folder 5/4, Accession No. 3378-002
    
    Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Clippings
- Subgroups
  - Washington Industrial Development Committee
    - Description: Correspondence
      
      Dates: 1951
      
      Container: Box/Folder 5/6, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subgroups / Washington Industrial Development Committee
  - Kirsten and Associates
    - Description: General Correspondence
      
      Dates: 1946, 1947
      
      Container: Box/Folder 5/7-8, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subgroups / Kirsten and Associates
    - Description: U.S. Partnership Return
      
      Dates: 1951
      
      Container: Box/Folder 5/9, Accession No. 3378-002
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subgroups / Kirsten and Associates
  - Manufacturers Aircraft Association
    - Incoming Letters
      - Description: Manufacturers Aircraft Association
        
        Dates: 1941-1945
        
        Container: Box/Folder 5/10-16, Accession No. 3378-002
        
        Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subgroups / Manufacturers Aircraft Association / Incoming Letters
      - Description: Reynolds and Beach Patent Attorneys
        
        Dates: 1941-1943
        
        Container: Box/Folder 5/17, Accession No. 3378-002
        
        Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subgroups / Manufacturers Aircraft Association / Incoming Letters
      - Description: Patent Arbitration Hearings: Agenda, Minutes, Hearing Notes, Award Decisions
        
        Dates: 1942-1944
        
        Container: Box/Folder 5/18, Accession No. 3378-002
        
        Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subgroups / Manufacturers Aircraft Association / Incoming Letters
      - Description: Patent Arbitration Hearing 123-Boeing Aircraft Company: Agenda, Minutes, Hearing Notes,Award Decisions
        
        Dates: 1944
        
        Container: Box/Folder 5/19, Accession No. 3378-002
        
        Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subgroups / Manufacturers Aircraft Association / Incoming Letters
      - Description: General Information for Patent Arbitration Hearings
        
        Dates: undated
        
        Container: Box/Folder 5/20, Accession No. 3378-002
        
        Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subgroups / Manufacturers Aircraft Association / Incoming Letters
  - Kirsten: Boeing Engineering Company
    - Incoming Letters
      - Description: Taylor, David W
        
        Dates: 1923, 1924
        
        Container: Box/Folder 5/21, Accession No. 3378-002
        
        Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subgroups / Kirsten: Boeing Engineering Company / Incoming Letters
      - Description: U.S. Coast Guard
        
        Dates: 1923-1926
        
        Container: Box/Folder 5/22, Accession No. 3378-002
        
        Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subgroups / Kirsten: Boeing Engineering Company / Incoming Letters
      - Description: Miscellaneous Businesses
        
        Dates: 1922, 1925, 1926
        
        Container: Box/Folder 5/23, Accession No. 3378-002
        
        Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subgroups / Kirsten: Boeing Engineering Company / Incoming Letters
      - Description: Incoming Letters to Kirsten Regarding Dissolution of the Company
        
        Dates: 1932, 1937, 1940, 1941
        
        Container: Box/Folder 5/24, Accession No. 3378-002
        
        Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subgroups / Kirsten: Boeing Engineering Company / Incoming Letters
    - Outgoing Letters from Kirsten-Boeing Company
      - Description: Taylor, David W
        
        Dates: 1923, 1924
        
        Container: Box/Folder 5/25, Accession No. 3378-002
        
        Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subgroups / Kirsten: Boeing Engineering Company / Outgoing Letters from Kirsten-Boeing Company
      - Description: U.S. Coast Guard; U.S. Navy
        
        Dates: 1924; 1923-1927
        
        Container: Box/Folder 5/26, Accession No. 3378-002
        
        Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subgroups / Kirsten: Boeing Engineering Company / Outgoing Letters from Kirsten-Boeing Company
      - Description: Miscellaneous
        
        Dates: 1922-1928
        
        Container: Box/Folder 5/27, Accession No. 3378-002
        
        Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subgroups / Kirsten: Boeing Engineering Company / Outgoing Letters from Kirsten-Boeing Company
      - Description: Outgoing Letters from Kirsten Regarding Dissolution of the Company
        
        Dates: 1937, 1940
        
        Container: Box/Folder 5/28, Accession No. 3378-002
        
        Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subgroups / Kirsten: Boeing Engineering Company / Outgoing Letters from Kirsten-Boeing Company
    - Interoffice Correspondence
      - Description: To Kirsten from William E Bowing
        
        Dates: 1923, 1927
        
        Container: Box/Folder 5/29, Accession No. 3378-002
        
        Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subgroups / Kirsten: Boeing Engineering Company / Interoffice Correspondence
      - Description: To Kirsten from F.N. Claflin
        
        Dates: 1923
        
        Container: Box/Folder 5/30, Accession No. 3378-002
        
        Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subgroups / Kirsten: Boeing Engineering Company / Interoffice Correspondence
      - Description: To Kirsten from G. Wright Arnold, E.B. Downing, L.R. McLeod and Others
        
        Dates: 1923-1935
        
        Container: Box/Folder 5/31, Accession No. 3378-002
        
        Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subgroups / Kirsten: Boeing Engineering Company / Interoffice Correspondence
      - Description: From Kirsten to William E Boeing
        
        Dates: 1923-1931
        
        Container: Box/Folder 5/32, Accession No. 3378-002
        
        Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subgroups / Kirsten: Boeing Engineering Company / Interoffice Correspondence
      - Description: From Kirsten to F.N. Claflin, L.R. McLeod and Others (including some to unknown recipients)
        
        Dates: 1923
        
        Container: Box/Folder 5/33, Accession No. 3378-002
        
        Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subgroups / Kirsten: Boeing Engineering Company / Interoffice Correspondence
      - Description: Miscellaneous
        
        Dates: 1923
        
        Container: Box/Folder 5/34, Accession No. 3378-002
        
        Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subgroups / Kirsten: Boeing Engineering Company / Interoffice Correspondence
    - Financial Records
      - Description: Compnay Financial Statements
        
        Dates: 1924, 1927
        
        Container: Box/Folder 5/35, Accession No. 3378-002
        
        Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subgroups / Kirsten: Boeing Engineering Company / Financial Records
    - Legal Files
      - Description: Agreement Between Kirsten and Boeing
        
        Dates: 1921, 1925
        
        Container: Box/Folder 5/36, Accession No. 3378-002
        
        Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subgroups / Kirsten: Boeing Engineering Company / Legal Files
      - Description: Assignment-Boeing to Kirsten; Grants: Boeing to Kirsten, Memorandum Cocerning Company Recognition; Contract With Navy Department;
        
        Dates: 1925, 1926, 1928, 1926
        
        Container: Box/Folder 5/37, Accession No. 3378-002
        
        Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subgroups / Kirsten: Boeing Engineering Company / Legal Files
    - Description: Reports by Kirsten Bowing Company
      
      Location: Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951 / Subgroups / Kirsten: Boeing Engineering Company
Accession No. 3378-003: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1909-1940

0.12 cubic feet

Scope and Content: Correspondence, writings, photographs.

Restrictions on Access: Open to all users.

Acquisition Info: Donor: Dorothea M. Hardisty, October 10, 1991.
- Description: General Correspondence - Nimitz, Chester W. (Admiral, U.S. Navy)
  
  Dates: 1940
  
  Container: Vf OSVF0034A, Accession No. 3378-003
  
  Location: Accession No. 3378-003: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1909-1940
- Description: Certificate - Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences Membership
  
  Dates: 1932
  
  Container: Vf OSVF0034A, Accession No. 3378-003
  
  Location: Accession No. 3378-003: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1909-1940
- Description: "F.K. Kirsten: A Personality Sketch" writing
  
  Dates: 1938
  
  Container: Vf OSVF0034A, Accession No. 3378-003
  
  Location: Accession No. 3378-003: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1909-1940
- Description: "Origin and Progress of the Division of Aeronautics" writing
  
  Dates: 1931
  
  Container: Vf OSVF0034A, Accession No. 3378-003
  
  Location: Accession No. 3378-003: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1909-1940
- Description: Der 1000 PS Flugmotor writing
  
  Dates: 1921
  
  Container: Vf OSVF0034A, Accession No. 3378-003
  
  Location: Accession No. 3378-003: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1909-1940
- Description: Firedust Appliance photograph
  
  Dates: undated
  
  Container: Vf OSVF0034A, Accession No. 3378-003
  
  Location: Accession No. 3378-003: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1909-1940
- Description: Moth Trap photograph
  
  Dates: undated
  
  Container: Vf OSVF0034A, Accession No. 3378-003
  
  Location: Accession No. 3378-003: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1909-1940
- Description: Other Miscellaneous (technical) photographs
  
  Dates: undated
  
  Container: Vf OSVF0034A, Accession No. 3378-003
  
  Location: Accession No. 3378-003: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1909-1940
- Description: Graduating Engineering Class photograph
  
  Dates: 1909
  
  Container: Vf OSVF0034A, Accession No. 3378-003
  
  Location: Accession No. 3378-003: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1909-1940
- Description: Professional Engineering Seal (metal seal embosser)
  
  Dates: undated
  
  Container: Vf OSVF0034B, Accession No. 3378-003
  
  Location: Accession No. 3378-003: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1909-1940
Description: Accession No. 3378-004: Frederick Kurt Kirsten photographs, 1903-1945
0.21 cubic feet

Scope and Content: Photographs.

Restrictions on Access: Open to all users.

Acquisition Info: Donor: Mark Levinson, August 20, 1992.
Description: Accession No. 3378-005: Frederick Kurt Kirsten report, 1950
0.03 cubic feet

Scope and Content: Report, "The Cycloidal Propeller in Marine Application".

Restrictions on Access: Open to all users.

Acquisition Info: Donor: Charles Lord, September 21, 1994.

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

Aeronautics--Washington (State)--History--Sources
Inventors--Washington (State)
University Archives/Faculty Papers (University of Washington)

Personal Names

Kirsten, Frederick Kurt, 1885---Archives

Corporate Names

University of Washington--Faculty
University of Washington. Department of Aeronautical Engineering--History--Sources
University of Washington. Department of Electrical Engineering--History--Sources

Form or Genre Terms

Business correspondence
Drawings
Patents
Personal correspondence
Photographs
Reports
Speeches

Other Creators

Corporate Names
- University of Washington. University Archives

Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1901-1991

Table of Contents

Overview of the Collection

Biographical Note

Content Description

Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

Administrative Information

Arrangement

Detailed Description of the Collection

Accession No. 3378-002: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1915-1951

Biographical Features

Incoming Letters

Outgoing Letters

General Correspondence

Financial Records

Legal Information

Patent Applications

Patent Descriptions

Speechs and Writings (by Kirsten)

Speeches

Unfoldered Items

Speeches and Writings (by Others)

Report Files

New Releases

Subject Series

Naval Vessel LSM 458

Naval Motor Torpedo Boat PT 8

Voith-Schnieder Company

Cycloidal Windmill

Aeuronautical Engineering Department

Air Raid Siren

American Nitrogen Products Company

Dust Machine

Hi Intensity Lighting

Instructional Wind Tunnel (3 ft. Hexagonal Wind Tunnel)

Kirsten Wind Tunnel

Kirsten Pipe

Mechanized Bed

Moth Trap

Parabolic Pump

Realschule Grossenhein

Transmission Line Design

Photostatic Reproductions: Big Creek Development

Window Testing for M Reuter and Sons

Photographs

Clippings

Subgroups

Washington Industrial Development Committee

Kirsten and Associates

Manufacturers Aircraft Association

Incoming Letters

Kirsten: Boeing Engineering Company

Incoming Letters

Outgoing Letters from Kirsten-Boeing Company

Interoffice Correspondence

Financial Records

Legal Files

Accession No. 3378-003: Frederick Kurt Kirsten papers, 1909-1940

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

Personal Names

Corporate Names

Form or Genre Terms

Other Creators

Corporate Names