BERNARD VONNEGUT PAPERS, (UA-902.068), 1828-1997


Descriptive Summary
Title:	Bernard Vonnegut Papers
Date:	1828-1997
Physical Characteristics:	19.31 cubic ft. processed to date
Abstract:	The Bernard Vonnegut Papers document Dr. Vonnegut's professional career as an atmospheric scientist beginning in the mid-1940s, until his death in 1997.
Storage:	The materials are located onsite in the department.
Language:	The materials in the collection are in English.
Repository:	M. E. Grenander Department of Special Collections and Archives, University at Albany, SUNY

Biographical Sketch

Dr. Bernard Vonnegut was born in 1914 in Indianapolis, Indiana to architect Kurt Vonnegut, Sr. (1884-1957) and Edith Sophia Lieber (d. 1944). He had two younger siblings; a sister, Alice (1917-1958), and a brother, Kurt (1922-2007), the 20th Century author famous for his works of satire and science fiction. Bernard Vonnegut earned his bachelor’s degree in Chemistry in 1936 and a doctorate in Physical Chemistry in 1939 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T). He worked at M.I.T before joining General Electric Company (GE) in 1945, where he conducted his most notable series of experiments, Project Cirrus.

Dr. Vonnegut achieved success while working at the GE Research Laboratories in Schenectady, New York alongside Nobel laureate Dr. Irving Langmuir, and the original discoverer of cloud seeding via dry ice, Vincent J. Schaefer. GE undertook the Project Cirrus weather modification program in conjunction with the United States Signal Corps, Office of Naval Research, the United States Air Force, and general oversight handled by the Department of Defense, with the objective of discerning ways to artificially influence precipitation. Dr. Vonnegut’s discovery of AgI, Silver Iodide, as a superior nucleation agent significantly influenced the science of artificial precipitation, and this method came to be adopted as the chief method of “rain making.”

Dr. Vonnegut left GE in 1952 for a position with the management consultancy Arthur D. Little where he continued research in atmospheric science as well as additional research with different types of gases. While at Arthur D. Little, Dr. Vonnegut also participated in experiments and research that had been contracted out for private companies, such as the Southern California Air Pollution Foundation, and the Steel Company of Canada.

After 15 years with Arthur D. Little, Dr. Vonnegut moved on to the newly created Atmospheric Sciences Research Center at the State University of New York at Albany under the direction of Vincent Schaefer, where he taught atmospheric chemistry, electricity, and instrumentation throughout his tenure. Dr. Vonnegut was named a Distinguished Research Professor in 1984, and upon his formal retirement in 1985 was named Professor Emeritus.

One of Dr. Vonnegut’s most notable projects during his time at the University was the collaboration with NASA on the Night/Day Optical Survey of Lightning (NOSL) experiments. Astronauts, equipped with specialized recording instruments, took pictures and video of large thunderstorms over the course of three shuttle missions. Dr. Vonnegut, who proposed the project, utilized the photographs and data in his continuing research on thunderstorms and electrification theory.

Throughout his career, Dr. Vonnegut pursued research in many fields of interest; mainly thunderclouds, tornadoes, and lightning. He made regular summer expeditions to New Mexico where he worked with colleagues at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in Socorro to study these phenomena, and many of the experiments he undertook pertain to these three topics. Furthermore, Dr. Vonnegut accumulated multiple patents for his inventions and research techniques.

Dr. Vonnegut married Lois Bowler (d. 1972) and had five sons. Interestingly, after becoming a father, he took on a personal campaign to improve the quality of educational science texts and encyclopedias, as well as truth in advertising regarding scientific claims on children’s products.

Dr. Vonnegut continued atmospheric research and publishing until his death from cancer at 82 in 1997.

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Scope and Content Information

The papers document Dr. Bernard Vonnegut's professional career as an atmospheric scientist beginning in the mid-1940s at M.I.T., the GE Research Laboratories, 1945-1952, Arthur D. Little Corporation, 1952-1967, and the State University of New York at Albany's Atmospheric Sciences Research Center and Department of Atmospheric Sciences from 1967 through his death in 1997.

The records in this collection document Dr. Vonnegut's research interests, including icing and atmospheric electricity, cloud physics, thunderstorms, and tornado formation. The papers also contain extensive information about his major scientific discoveries and experiments, such as Project Cirrus, a program that sought ways to artificially influence precipitation, the NASA/NOSL project where he studied weather phenomena from space, and his experiments and research in New Mexico. Additionally, the papers contain a small amount of personal records.

The collection is arranged into 12 series. The records consist of scientific projects, research, and data, inventions and patent forms, manuscripts, reports, correspondence, publicity materials, course materials, news clippings, photographs, and audio and video. The majority of materials date from Dr. Vonnegut’s tenure at GE, Arthur D. Little, and State University of New York at Albany.

Currently, only series 1-6, and 10 are processed.

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Arrangement of the Collection

The collection is organized into the following series:

Series 1 - Project Cirrus, 1891-1973, Undated

Series 2 - NASA Experiments, 1976-1991, Undated

Series 3 - Arthur D. Little, 1948-1968, Undated

Series 4 - New Mexico, 1953-1996

Series 5 - Tornado Research, 1837-1991, Undated

Series 6 - General Research and Inventions, 1828-1997, Undated

Series 7 - Manuscripts, currently unprocessed

Series 8 - State University of New York at Albany, currently unprocessed

Series 9 - Meetings, currently unprocesessed

Series 10 - Subject Files, 1941-1996, Undated

Series 11 - A/V, currently unprocessed

Series 12 - Biographical, currently unprocessed

All series are arranged alphabetically.

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Restrictions

Access

Access to this record group is unrestricted with the exception of one folder, which is marked.

Copyright

The researcher assumes full responsibility for conforming with the laws of copyright. Whenever possible, the M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections and Archives will provide information about copyright owners and other restrictions, but the legal determination ultimately rests with the researcher. Requests for permission to publish material from this collection should be discussed with the Head of Special Collections and Archives.

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Subject Headings

Persons

Blanchard, Duncan C.

Brook, Marx

Langmuir, Irving, 1881-1957

Moore, Charles B., 1920-2010

Schaefer, Vincent J.

Vaughan, Otha H.

Vonnegut, Bernard

Corporate Bodies

Arthur D. Little, Inc.

General Electric Company

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology

State University of New York. Atmospheric Sciences Research Center

U.S. Army Signal Engineering Laboratories

United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Subjects

Aerosols

Atmospheric electricity

Atmospheric physics

Cloud physics

Clouds--Dynamics

Columbia (Spacecraft)

Consulting contracts

Electrostatics

Lightning

Rain-making

Silver Iodide

Thunderstorm electricity

Tornadoes

Volcanoes--Iceland

Weather control

Places

Albany (N.Y.)

Cambridge (M.A.)

Indianapolis (I.L.)

Mount Washington Observatory

Mount Withington (N.M.)

Schenectady (N.Y.)

Socorro (N.M.)

Surtsey (island)

Washington, Mount (N.H.)

Genres and Forms

Administrative reports

Annual reports

Charts

Correspondence

Diagrams

Manuscripts (document genre)

Maps

Memorabilia

Newsletters

Newspaper clippings

Notes

Papers

Photographs

Slides (photographs)

Sound recordings

Technical reports

Transparencies

Video recordings

Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

Preferred citation for this material is as follows:

Identification of specific item, series, box, folder, Bernard Vonnegut Papers, 1828-1997. M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University at Albany, State University of New York (hereafter referred to as the Women's Club of Albany Records).

Acquisition Information

The Bernard Vonnegut papers were donated to M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections and Archives by Sally Marsh, Dr. Vonnegut's Administrative Assistant, in July 2005.

Finding Aid Information

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Container List


Series 1: Project Cirrus, 1891-1973, Undated 3.18 cubic feet
		Arranged alphabetically.
		This series documents the Project Cirrus program, a weather modification initiative undertaken by GE along with the United States Signal Corps, Office of Naval Research, and the United States Air Force, with general oversight handled by the Department of Defense. As part of the effort, Vonnegut discovered that AgI, Silver Iodide, was a superior nucleation agent. This discovery significantly influenced the science of artificial precipitation and this method came to be adopted as the chief means of "rain making".
		The series contains the research, data, reports, correspondence, publicity, and photographs regarding the project. Please note that the archivist filed all of the loose photographs together. The archivist kept any photograph accompanying research, data, or reports with that respective material.
		Please see series 11, Audio and Video, for Project Cirrus related films (unprocessed at this time).
Box	Folder
1	1	AgI, Silver Iodide Chemical Reviewer Article, 1949
	2	AgI, Silver Iodide Cloud Seeding, Undated
	3	AgI, Silver Iodide Conductive Silver Preparations, Undated
	4	AgI, Silver Iodide Correspondence, 1950-1951
	5	AgI, Silver Iodide Drawings and Photographs, Undated
	6	AgI, Silver Iodide Seeding Transparencies, Undated
	7	AgI, Silver Iodide Smokes and Generators, 1950
	8	AgI, Silver Iodide Rough Drafts, 1949 1951
	9	Conferences, Committee on Snow and Ice Tentative Classifications, Undated
	10	Conferences, On Interfacial Phenomena and Nucleation, 1951
	11	Conferences, Regarding Cloud Seeding, 1950
	12	Data, Catalogue of Data for Project Cirrus, 1950
	13	Data, Efficiency of Natural and Artificial Freezing Nucleo Chart, Undated
	14	Data, Fourth Partial Report, Undated
	15	Data, GE Research Notepad July 19,20 and 22, 1949
	16	Data, GE Research Notepad July 21, and 23, 1949
	17	Data, New Mexico Flights, 1950
	18	Data, Notepad Flight Notes Friday July 15, Undated
	19	Data Project Cirrus Personnel and Expenses, 1949
	20	Data, Puerto Rico Flight Map, 1947
	21	Data, Spiral Notebook AgI Notes, Undated
	22	Data, Temperature and Air Speed charts, Undated
Oversized	Folder
4	1	Data, Temperature and Air Speed charts, M2 thermometer housing, Undated
Box	Folder
1	23	History, Project Cirrus The Story of Cloud Seeding, 1952
	24	History, History of Project Cirrus, 1952
	25	History, Early History of Cloud Seeding, 1979
	26	History, Project Cirrus History Correspondence, Drafts and Photos, 1974-1985
	27	History, Annotated Project Cirrus History, Undated
	28	Legislation, House Subcommittee on Weather Modification Proceedings, 1951
	29	Legislation, NYS Weather Modification Legislation, 1950
	30	Legislation, UN Report - Economic Aspects of Experimental Meteorology, 1949
	31	Legislation, U.S. Dept. of Commerce Reports, 1948
	32	Legislation, U.S. Weather Control Memorandum, 1952
	33	Measurement Apparatus, Air Speed/Temperature, 1936-1954
	34	Measurement Apparatus, Capillary Collector, 1945 1948
	35	Measurement Apparatus, Condensation Nuclei Counter, 1949
	36	Measurement Apparatus, Cloud Chamber, Undated
	37	Measurement Apparatus, Vortex Thermometer Charts and Graphs, Undated
	38	Measurement Apparatus, Vortex Thermometer Flight Data, 1956
	39	Measurement Apparatus, Vortex Thermometer Report, 1949
	40	Patents, 1948-1952
Oversized	Folder
2	1	Patents, 1948-1951
Box	Folder
1	41	Photos, Clouds and Tools, 1949
	42	Photos, Colored Cloud Slides, Undated
	43	Photos, Flight #57, 1948
	44-46	Photos, Flight #105, 1949
Box	Folder
2	1	Photos, Flight #105 Camera Report, 1949
	2	Photos, GE Personnel and Clouds, 1949-1950
	3	Photos, Negatives - Assorted, 1950 Undated
	4	Photos, New Mexico, 1949 1973
	5	Photos, Plane/Flight Crew and Puerto Rico, 1948-1950
	6	Photos, Puerto Rico, 1949
	7	Photos, Reference, 1943 1946 1950 1952 1973
	8	Photos, Seeding Path, 1948
	9	Photos, Silver Iodide, Undated
	10	Photos, Silver Iodide Generators, Undated
	11	Photos, Water Droplets and Smoke Particles, Undated
	12	Publicity, AMS Dispute Letter, 1951
	13	Publicity, Fire for Rain article and correspondence, 1948 1950 1952
	14	Publicity, GE Internal Publications [1/2], 1950-1951 1975
	15	Publicity, GE Internal Publications [2/2], 1950 1975
	16	Publicity, GE News Bureau Photos and Articles, 1952
	17	Publicity, New Mexico Interview, 1952
	18	Publicity, News Clippings, 1948-1962
	19	Publicity, Reviews and Advertising, 1979-1981 1985
	20	Publicity, Science Service, 1952
	21	Publicity, Scientific American, 1951
	22	Publicity, Weather Modification, 1947 1952 1962 1966 1973
	23	Reports, Cloud Seeding in Australia, Undated
	24	Reports, Cloud Seeding in Mexico, 1958
	25	Reports, Cloud Seeding Trials at Delhi during Monsoon Months July to September (1957-1959), 1961
	26	Reports, Occasional Report 37 Technical Abstract, 1952
	27	Reports, Projects Cirrus Operations Group Report, 1950
	28	Reports, Final Report ONR Project, 1953
	29	Reports, Final Report Project Cirrus, 1948
Oversized
1		Reports, Final Report Project Cirrus, 1951
Box	Folder
2	30-31	Reports, Final Report Project Cirrus Part 1, Field, and Flight Experiments, 1953
Oversized
1		Reports, Final Report Project Cirrus Part 2, Analysis of the Effects of Periodic Seeding of the Atmospher with Silver Iodide, 1953
Box	Folder
2	32	Reports, GE Meteorological Studies, 1945 1948-1950 1952
	33	Reports, GE Meteorological Studies, 1940-1966
	34	Reports, GE Meteorological Studies, 1943-1944 1947-1948 1950
	35	Reports, GE Meteorological Studies, 1947-1951
	36	Reports, GE Meteorological Studies, 1947-1948 1950 1953
	37	Reports, GE Meteorological Studies, 1948 1950
	38	Reports, Project Cirrus Occasional Report 1-6, 1948
Box	Folder
3	1	Reports, Project Cirrus Occasional Report 7-12, 1948-1949
	2	Reports, Project Cirrus Occasional Report 13-17, 1949
	3	Reports, Project Cirrus Occasional Report 22-25, 1950
	4	Reports, Project Cirrus Occasional Report 26-29, 1951
	5	Reports, Project Cirrus Occasional Report 30-34, 1950 1952
	6	Reports, Project Cirrus Occasional Report 35-40, 1952-1953
	7	Reports, Project Cirrus Quarterly Report 1-5, 1947-1948
	8	Reports, Project Cirrus Quarterly Report Eight Quarter/ November 13, 1950
	9	Reports, Vonnegut - Importance of Determining Various Variables Involved in Seeding Operations of Weather Control Experiments, Undated
	10	Reprints, Artificial Stimulation of Rain at Kongwa, 1951
	11	Reprints, Atmospheric Conditions Necessary for Artificial Precipitation, 1949
	12	Reprints, Cloud Physics Letter and Abstract, 1950
	13	Reprints, Dessens and Maurin mailed articles, 1949
	14	Reprints, D.W. Pashley - Oriented Growth of Silver in Silver Halide Crystals, 1949
	15	Reprints, Findelsen - Colloidal Meteorological Processes, 1938
	16	Reprints, Gathmann's US Patent for "A Method of Producing Rain-Fall", 1891
	17	Reprints, H.K. Weickmann - A Theory of the Formation of Ice Crystals, 1951
	18	Reprints, JAG Journal, 1949
	19	Reprints, Japanese Geophysical Science Articles and Correspondence, 1948
	20	Reprints, Journal of Applied Mathematics and Physics: Experimental Meteorology, 1950
	21	Reprints, J.Th.G. Overbeck article, 1951
	22	Reprints, Kampe and Weickmann - AgI as a freezing nucleus, 1950
	23	Reprints, M. Tsuji - On the Rate of Evaporation and Condensation of Falling Drops, 1950
	24	Reprints, Motoi Kumai - Electron-Microscope study of snow-crystal nuclei, 1951
	25	Reprints, Physical Studies that would Improve our Knowledge of Meteorology, 1958
	26	Reprints, Recueil des Travaux Chimiques des Pays-Bas, 1951
	27	Reprints, Royal Meteorological Society, 1949-1950
	28	Reprints, Science - The Production of in a cloud of supercooled water droplets, 1946
	29	Reprints, Smoke Particles and supercooled clouds [Langmuir], 1948
	30	Reprints, Strock and Rauh - German language articles, 1935 1941
	31	Reprints, Sublimation of Outdoor Air and Seeded Sublimation, Undated
	32	Reprints, SUNY Weatherwise - Simple Experiments in Atmospheric Physics, 1955
	33	Reprints, Surface tension of small droplets of water from Volmer and Flood's Nucleation Data, 1949
	34	Reprints, Symposium on Artificial Rain, 1951
	35	Reprints, The Crystalline Structure of Ice, Undated
	36	Reprints, The Preparation of Colloidal AgI water-suspension for nucleation of supercooled clouds, 1949
	37	Reprints, The Problem of Artificial Rain on the Globe, 1948
	38	Reprints, Trilliat articles, 1948-1949
	39	Reprints, Untitled French report, 1949
	40	Reprints, Weather, 1949
	41	Reprints, Weatherwise, 1949
	42	Research, Aerosol Detection Methods, 1950
	43	Research, Air Plane Icing, 1946
	44	Research, Atmospheric (General), 1945 1947-1948 1952
	45	Research, Atmospheric Electrification, 1954 1956
	46	Research, Atmospheric Particle Research, 1952
	47	Research, Electrical Atomization, 1951
	48	Research, Heated Filament Aerosol Report, Undated
	49	Research, Hot Wire Report and Data, Undated
	50	Research, Nucleation Data Folder/Report, 1947
	51	Seeding Flights, Cloud Seeding Technique Correspondence, 1949-1951
	52	Seeding Flights, Air Speed/ Temperature/Nuclei Counter Research, 1949-1950
	53	Seeding Flights, Faust, 1949
	54	Seeding Flights, Flight #105 Photo Report, 1949
	55	Seeding Flights, Flight #57, 1948
	56	Seeding Flights, Flight #57 Paper, Undated
	57	Untitled, Filament, Undated
	58	Untitled, Transparencies, Undated
	59	Voltmeter Instruction Manual, Undated


Series 2: NASA Experiments , 1976-1991, Undated 1.64 cubic feet
		Arranged alphabetically.
		Series 2 documents the NOSL (Nighttime/Daylight Optical Survey of Thunderstorm Lightning) experiment, a large-scale project undertaken by NASA during the early 1980s, in which astronauts recorded and documented thunderstorm and lightning activity observable from the Earth’s orbit. Dr. Vonnegut, who proposed the project, utilized the photographs and data in his continuing research on thunderstorms and electrification theory.
		The series contains data, reports, correspondence, press releases, photographs, and NASA technical memoranda and shuttle specifications regarding the NOSL project. Crew activity plans and specifications are filed by flight number. Associated documents were kept with their respective flight number as much as possible. Additionally, memorabilia from one shuttle flight is incorporated, including a signed photograph from the astronauts who took part in the experiment.
Box	Folder
1	1	Curtner, M.L. (Doc), 1978
	2	Equipment Information, 1977-1978
Oversized	Folder
4	2	Equipment Information, 1977-1978
Box	Folder
1	3	Experiment Requirements Document, 1977
	4	Fiess, Mary, SUNY News Bureau, 1981-1989
	5	Flight Requirement Proposal - NASA, 1978-1979
	6	Investigators Working Group Meeting, Johnson Space Center, October 25-26, 1978
	7	Investigators Working Group Meeting, Johnson Space Center, June 2-3, 1981
	8	Koutchmy, Serge - Salyut Lightning, 1983
	9	Lightning from Later Flights, 1985 1991
	10	NASA Flights, 1980
	11	NASA Flight Summary Report, Flight #79-120, August 8, 1979
	12	NASA Memorabilia, 1981
Oversized	Folder
4	3	NASA Memorabilia, 1982
Box	Folder
1	13	NASA Publications, 1978-1979
	14	NASA Technical Memorandum - Shuttle Observations, 1983-1984
	15	New Yorker, "Lightning Strikes Seen from Satellite", 1976
	16	NOSL: Analysis of Data, 1979-1980
	17	NOSL: Critical Design Review Meeting, August 17, 1978, 1978
	18	NOSL: Description, Gayle Weber and William Green, 1978
	19	NOSL: Description, Mary Fae McKay, 1980-1981
	20	NOSL: Experiment, 1977
	21	NOSL: Experiment Implementation Plan (EIP), Undated
	22	NOSL: Follow-up Proposal, 1982-1983
	23	NOSL: NASA Technical Memorandum 78261, 1980
	24	NOSL: Press Releases, 1981-1983
	25-28	NOSL: Project Documents and Information, 1976-1990
Oversized	Folder
4	4	NOSL: Project Documents and Information, 1980 1982 Undated
Box	Folder
1	29	Operations Working Group Meeting, Johnson Space Center, November 8, 1977
	30	Operations Requirements Meetings, 1978
	31	OSTA-1: Experiments, 1981
	32	OSTA-1: Science and Data Management Review Meeting, February 25-26, 1981
	33	Personnel Access and Patch Requests, 1982
	34	Photographs, Flights 5 and 6, 1984
	35	Photographs, Thunderstorms in Brazil, 1984
	36	Press Stories, 1981-1982
	37	Shuttle Altitude Charts, Undated
	38	Slides, 1982
	39	STS-2: ACSM-ASP Convention Presentation, 1981-1982
	40	STS-2: Crew Activity Plan, Revision A, 1981
	41	STS-2: Crew Activity Plan, Revision B, 1981
	42	STS-2: Data, 1982
Box	Folder
2	1	STS-2: NOSL Critique, 1982
	2	STS-2: Preliminary Report, 1981
	3	STS-2: SCIENCE Magazine, NOSL Collaborative Issue, 1982
	4	STS-3: Correspondence, 1982
	5	STS-4, 1978 1982-1983
Oversized	Folder
3	1	STS-4, 1978 1982-1983
Box	Folder
2	6	STS-4: Crew Activity Plan Final PCN-1, 1982
	7	STS-4: Hasselblad Photographs, Undated
	8	STS-4: H.D. Voss, Lockheed, 1982 1985
	9	STS-4: Log and Summary, 1982
	10	STS-5, 1982
Oversized	Folder
3	2	STS-5, 1982
Box	Folder
2	11	STS-6, 1982-1983
Oversized	Folder
3	3	STS-6, 1982-1983
Box	Folder
2	12	STS-6: Crew Activity Plan, Revision A, 1983
	13	U-2 Flight Proposals, 1979-1981
	14	U-2 Flights, 1981
Box	Folder
3	1	U-2 Flights, 1983
	2	Venus Atmospheric Probe, 1979-1987
	3	Waldteufel, P., Soyouz Mission Flight, 1980
	4	Y Lightning, 1983


Series 3: Arthur D. Little, 1948-1968, Undated 2.64 cubic feet
		Arranged alphabetically.
		While employed at Arthur D. Little, Dr. Vonnegut built upon his research in atmospheric science, specifically electrification of clouds and thunderstorms. He also explored new research regarding different gases and their behaviors.
		A large amount of correspondence on various topics dominates the series, and the archivist filed any loose correspondence together.
Box	Folder
1	1-3	Advisory Committee on Weather Control, 1954-1958
	4	Advisory Panel for Weather Modification - NSF, 1954-1962
Oversized	Folder
4	5	Advisory Panel for Weather Modification - NSF, Undated
Box	Folder
1	5	American Geophysical Union Conference, 1954-1955
	6	American Meteorological Society, 1958
	7	Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory, 1949 1953-1955
	8	Brown, Dr. Ethan Allen, 1959-1960
	9	Chemical Corps - Photographs, Undated
	10	Chemical Corps - Ozalids case 63068, 1960-1963
	11	Comments on Thunderstorm Project, 1954
	12	Committee on Severe Storms, 1958-1960
	13-20	Correspondence, 1949-1962
	21	Correspondence - General Electric Co., 1953-1953
	22-23	Correspondence - Technical Papers, 1958-1961
Oversized	Folder
4	6	Correspondence - Technical Papers, 1961
Box	Folder
1	24	Correspondence - Tornado and Thunderstorm Theories [1 of 3], 1953-1962
Box	Folder
2	1-2	Correspondence - Tornado and Thunderstorm Theories, 1953-1962
	3	Data, Multiple Projects, 1948 1962 1968
Oversized	Folder
3	4	Data, Multiple Projects, 1948 1962 1968
Box	Folder
2	4	Dublin Symposium, 1954-1955
	5	Electrets Literature References, 1954
	6	Electrification, Miscellaneous, 1954-1955 1961 1963
	7	Electrification, Papers, 1953-1964
	8	Federal Products Corp. Miniature Instrument, 1955
	9	"Final Report - The Detector of Atmospheric Electric Disturbances", 1964
	10	"Final Report - The Detector of Atmospheric Electric Disturbances," Photographs, Undated
	11	First Adirondack Conference on Atmospheric Nuclei, October 1957, 1954-1957
	12	Hastings-Raydist Incorporated, 1961-1965
	13	International Conference on Cloud Physics, Sydney, Australia, 1961
	14	Kerivan, Leo, 1962
	15	Mt. Withington Study, 1958 1961-1962
	16	Mueller, Eugene, 1964-1965
	17	New England School Science Advisory Council, 1960
Oversized	Folder
4	7	New England School Science Advisory Council, 1960
Box	Folder
2	18	NSF Observatory, 1963-1964
	19	Office of Naval Research - Case 68308, 1964-1966
	20	Office of Naval Research, Miscellaneous, 1954-1962
	21-22	Ozalids, 1950-1962
	23	Radar, Miscellaneous, 1963-1965
	24	Reports, "Adaptation of Carbon-Film Electric Hygrometer Elements to Industrial Use", 1953
	25	Reports, "Composite Materials via the Fluid-Bed Technique", 1963
	26	Reports, "Final Report on Development and Manufacture of Electric Hygrometer Elements for Meteorological Use to Camp Evans Signal Laboratory, Belmar, New Jersey", 1952
	27	Reports, "Investigation of Sampling Procedure Requirement", 1956
	28	Reports, "Method and Apparatus for Measuring Electorstatic Fields in the Upper Atmosphere", 1959
	29	Reports, "Performance of Commercial Gas-Cleaning Equipment", 1958
	30	Reports, "Progress Report No. 48 on Improvement of Electrical Hygrometer Elements for Meteorological Use", 1950
	31	Reports, "Sampling Procedure Requirements", 1957
	32	Reports, "Stabilization of a High-Voltage Discharge by a Vortex", 1956
	33	Reports, "Study of Atmospheric Electrification and Proposal for an Extended Program," Office of Naval Research Geophysical Branch, 1955
	34	Reports, "The American Gas Association Thermal Precipitator", 1958
	35	Reports, "The Results of BuAer Support of the Atmospheric Electricity Study by Bernard Vonnegut - 1955 to 1958", 1958
	36	"Research in Electrical Phenomena Associated with Aerosols" [1 of 2], 1960-1961
Box	Folder
3	1	"Research in Electrical Phenomena Associated with Aerosols" [2 of 2], 1960-1961
	2	"Research in Electrical Phenomena Associated with Aerosols," Photographs and Diagrams, Undated
	3	Report - Atmospheric Electricity Study, 1958
	4	Report - Atmospheric Electrification, 1955
	5	Report - Carbon-Film Electric Hygrometer Elements, 1953
	6	Report - Composite Materials via the Fluid Bed Technique, 1963
	7	Report - Improvement of Electric Hygrometer Elements, 1950
	8	Report - Method and Apparatus for Measuring Electrostatic Fields in the Upper Atmosphere, 1959
	9	Report - Performance of Commercial Gas-cleaning Equipment, 1958
	10	Report - Sampling Procedure Requirements, 1956
	11	Report - Sampling Procedure Requirements, 1957
	12	Report - Stabilization of a High-Voltage Discharge by a Vortex, 1956
	13	Report - Thermal Precipitator, 1958
	14	Signal Corps - Case 58715, 1953-1958
	15	Signal Corps, Photographs, Undated
	16-17	Southern California Air Pollution Foundation, 1954-1960
	18	Spilhaus, A.F. Stony River Phenomena (Alaska 1950), 1950-1958
	19-20	Steel Company of Canada, 1945-1955
Oversized	Folder
3	5	Steel Company of Canada, 1945-1955
Box	Folder
3	21	Steel Company of Canada Conference Notes, 1920-1955
	22	Third Annual Conference on Atmospheric and Space Electricity, Montreaux, Switzerland, May 7, 1963, 1963
Box	Folder
4	1	Thunderstorm Experiments - Case 59667, 1956-1957
Oversized	Folder
3	6	Thunderstorm Experiments - Case 59667, 1956-1957
Box	Folder
4	2	University of Michigan, Airplane Icing Information Course, March 30-April 3, 1953, 1953
	3	Valley Hail Suppression Association, 1954
	4	Vonnegut, Bernard "Downdrafts in Cumulus Clouds", 1954
	5	Vonnegut, Bernard "The Electrical Theory of Tornadoes", 1956
	6	Vonnegut, Bernard "Final Report - Electrical Behavior of an Airplane in a Thunderstorm", 1964
	7	Vonnegut, Bernard "Tornadoes and Thunderstorm Electricity", 1954
	8	Vonnegut, Bernard, C.B. Moore, and M. Blume "Preliminary Investigation of the Distribution of Space Charge in the Lower Atmosphere", 1956
	9	Vonnegut, Bernard and C.B. Moore "Giant Electrical Storms", 1958
	10	Vonnegut, Bernard [et.al] "Final Report - Some Atmospheric Electric Instruments for Use in Air Force Operations", 1962
	11	Wind Tunnel Laboratory Staff "Notes on Procedures and Analysis of Wind Tunnel Experiments on Stack Gas Dispersal", 1954


Series 4: New Mexico, 1953-1996 1 cubic feet
		Arranged alphabetically.
		Series 4 documents Dr. Vonnegut’s work with the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (NMIMT) in Socorro, New Mexico. While both were employed at Arthur D. Little, he and fellow scientist Charles Moore were invited to conduct thunderstorm research at Mt. Withington, eventually becoming part of the Langmuir Laboratory for Atmospheric Research in Socorro. Moore stayed at NMIMT, and Dr. Vonnegut moved on to the State University of New York at Albany; though their collaborative research continued for the entirety of each other’s career.
		The series includes a large amount of correspondence with Charles Moore, as well as with other prominent figures related to NMIMT; Marx Brook, Stirling Colgate, and William Winn. This series also consists of data, research, and articles regarding experiments in New Mexico.
Box	Folder
1	1-2	215 Experiment, 1953-1987
Oversized	Folder
2	2	215 Experiment, 1953-1987
Box	Folder
1	3-4	Brook, Marx, 1960-1992
	5	Chew, Joe "Storms above the Desert", 1985-1986
	6	Colgate, Dr. Stirling A., 1965-1985
Map-Tube
1		Data, 1986
Box	Folder
1	7	Data, Undated
	8-13	Moore, Charles B. (C.B.), 1954-1996
Oversized	Folder
3	7	Moore, Charles B. (C.B.), 1954-1996
Box	Folder
1	14	News Articles, Lightning, 1986
	15	NMIMT, Miscellaneous, 1956-1996
	16	ONR Special Purpose Test Vehicle for Atmospheric Research (SPTVAR), 1979-1980
	17	Paper Review, Electrification of NM Thunderstorms, 1988
	18	Photographs, 1958
	19	Photographs, NMIMT, 1962-1968
	20	Reynolds, Steve, 1990
	21	Thunderstorm Electricity, Quarterly Report for period ending 7 November 1954, 1954
	22	Winn, William (W.P.), 1965-1989


Series 5: Tornado Research, 1837-1991, Undated 1.2 cubic feet
		Arranged alphabetically.
		This series consists primarily of tornado observations and eyewitness accounts solicited from the general public via newspaper advertisements in areas where tornadoes and severe storms frequently occur. They are filed using the original labeling system employed by Dr. Vonnegut, where the date and place of the observation as well as a brief statement on the phenomena is used to identify the observation. Accounts of severe storms found in multiple publications, biblical references, and other historical observations are also present.
		Please note that the archivist filed all of the loose photographs together. The archivist kept any photograph accompanying observation, research, or data with that respective material.
Box	Folder
1	1	ALERT, Alert Laymen's Enlistment Researching Tornadoes, 1990
	2	Barnes, Stanley L., Editor "Papers on Oklahoma Thunderstorms, April 29-30, 1970 - NOAA Technical Memorandum ERL NSSL-69, 1974
	3	Bath, Markus "An Investigation into Three Tornadoes in Sweden", 1946
	4	Biblical References, 1966
	5	Brand, Dr. Walther "Der Kugelblitz", 1923
	6	Changnon, Jr., Stanley A. and Richard G. Semonin "A Great Tornado Disaster in Retrospect" Weatherwise, April 1966, 1966
	7	Colgate, Stirling - Tornado Articles, 1967 1968 1981 1982
	8	Dergarabedian, Paul and Francis Fendell "Estimation of Maximum Wind Speeds in Tornadoes", Undated
	9	Dergarabedian, Paul and Francis Fendell "Parameters Governing the Generation of Free Vortices", 1967
	10	Ellenberger, P. "And what exactly was the Cyclone of Thaba-Bosiu?", 1957
	11	Final Report "Tornado-Sferics, Season 1956" Severe Weather Planning Center, 6th Weather Squadron (Mobile), Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma, 1956
	12	Flora, S.D. "The Nature of Tornadoes" Weatherwise, April 1949, 1949
	13	Gannon, Robert "New scientific research may take the sting out of lightning", 1973-1974
	14	Gannon, Robert "Tornado! How science tracks down the dread twister", 1973
	15	Hare, R. "On the Causes of the Tornado, or Water Spout", 1837
	16	Historical References and Observations, 1456-1906
	17	Hoecker, Walter H. "Detailed Time-Lapse Study of the Dallas Tornado Funnel and the Attendant Debris Cloud", 1960
	18	Huff, F.A., H.W. Hiser and S.G. Bigler "Study of an Illinois Tornado Using Radar, Synoptic Weather and Field Survey Data", 1954
	19	Idso, Sherwood B. "Tornado or Dust Devil: The Enigma of Desert Whirlwinds", 1974
	20	Jones, Herbert L. "The Identification of Lightning Discharges by Sferic Characteristics", Undated
	21	Jules, Vernon "We will do something about the weather", 1966
	22	Laboratory Tornadoes, 1976
	23	Landsberg, H.E. "The Role of Atmospheric Electricity in the Atmospheric Sciences", 1974
	24	Lavan, Z. and A.A. Fejer "Luminescence in supersonic swirling flows", 1965
	25	Letter of support from Arthur D. Little to West Tulsa News on cooperation for printing Vonnegut's request for observations, 1954
	26	Letter from Harry Truman, May 7, 1957, 1957
	27	Maier, M.W. and H.W. Brandli "Simultaneous Observation of Tornado, Waterspout and Funnel Cloud", 1973
	28	Miller, Peter "Tracking Tornadoes", 1987
	29	"Notes on Certain Tornado and Squall Line Features" UAL Meteorological Circular, No. 36, April 15, 1952, 1952
	30	Observations: Adams, Mrs. J.C., Rumson, NJ "zig-zag streaks of lightning" "all hell broke loose", 1956
	31	Observations: Aiken, Mrs. Benedict D., Coconut Grove, Miami, FL "glowing with a bluish green light", 1959
	32	Observations: Anderson, Mrs. Philip, Toledo, OH, April 11, 1965 "then a great wall of white came", 1966
	33	Observations: Angus, Mrs. Florence, Toledo, OH, April 1965 "huge reddish yellow light", 1966
	34	Observations: Bauvia, Mrs. Bertha, Moville, IA "zig-zagged in its travel" "great bolt of lightning", 1958
	35	Observations: Benson, Mrs. Marcella, Toledo, OH, April 1965 "bluish white lights shooting around in the clouds", 1966
	36	Observations: Birmingham Alabama News "jagged streaks of fire resembling lightning", 1956
	37	Observations: Blomgren, Oscar, North Chicago, IL, August 1972, 1974
	38	Observations: Blumstock, Rutgers, June 22, 1928 "inside brilliantly lighted with constant flashes of lightning", 1959
	39	Observations: Bolduc, Mr. & Mrs., Castleton, NY "unknown objects in sky color of lit matches", 1977
	40	Observations: Byers, Lloyd J., Fargo, ND "luminous blue light or glow around the bottom edge of funnel", 1957-1958
	41	Observations: Cheyenne Tornado, July 16, 1979, 1979
	42	Observations: Cross, Marion H., Albuquerque, NM; Mississippi, 1960 "flickering pin points of light", 1966
	43	Observations: Dale, F. Douglas, Coldwater, KS "center of funnels luminous with yellow green" "balls of fire", 1960
	44	Observations: Decker, Jr., Mrs. Roy, Sparks, OK, Spring 1956 "great ball of fire was right above me", 1958
	45	Observations: Dekalb, IL, 1967
	46	Observations: Edmond, OK Tornado, May 8, 1986, 1986
	47	Observations: Elder, R.H., Suburn, AL, 1924 or 1925 "lightning constantly between tip of cone and ground", Undated
	48	Observations: Elkins, Robert E., Thorp, WI "big ball of fire and then destruction", 1958
	49	Observations: Foster, Hal, Mariana Islands, 1945 from Bulletin of American Meteorological Association, 1950
	50	Observations: Gaillard, Mary A., Mobile, AL, 1949 or 1950 "explosion with blue and green lights", 1958
	51	Observations: Godberry, Mrs. Hubert, Olney, TX, May 18, 1951 3:45 p.m. "big flash of electrical display", 1958
	52	Observations: Green, Mrs. Francis D., Ellington, CT, 1952 or 1953 "brilliant flash like brilliant lightning in the base", 1958
	53	Observations: Hamilton, Mrs. Alice, Bowers, Dallas "mass of blue and orange fire", 1958
	54	Observations: Highiet, Mrs. L.R., Toledo, OH, April 1965 "blue halo around tornado & orange balls of lightning coming out", 1966
	55	Observations: Hiser, Prof. Homer W., Miami, FL, 1959
	56	Observations: Houston, Walter Scott, Champagne, IL, Summer 1942 "searchlight beam extend out of cloud:, 1962-1963 1966
	57	Observations: Howland, Charles E., Formoso, KS, about 1933 & about 1952 "oppressed itchy feeling", 1958
	58	Observations: Hunter, Lee, Blackwell, OK, May 1955 "orange color fire in the center", 1956
	59	Observations: Jensen, J.C., Rock Rapids, IA, 1932 "ball lightning" Science Monthly, p. 192, 1933
	60	Observations: Johnson, D.C., Harden County, OH, May 11, 1887, 11:00 p.m. "straws blown into bark of trees", 1958
	61	Observations: Johnson, Tom, Toledo, OH, April 1965 "lights of different kinds of colors mixed up in the clouds", 1966
	62	Observations: Joliet, IL, 1990, 1990-1991
	63	Observations: Judkins, Jr., Harold I., Rutland, MA, June 1953 "where did the lightning go all of a sudden when about 2 miles", 1956
	64	Observations: Killian, Ralph D., Spring 1927, 1962
	65	Observations: Kueck, Irma, Hickman Mills, MO, May 20, 1957 "light yellow cloud, horizontal stripes, ball of fire", 1958
	66	Observations: LeBell, C.E., Excerpts from "Mont Blanc to Everest" by Gaston Rebuffat, Undated
	67	Observations: Luke, Ray, Artist, 1924 or 1925, Oklahoma "light as day inside", 1957
	68	Observations: Lumis, Mrs. Avril H., Kansas City, KS, May 20, 1952 "yellow-white along outside of funnel as if neon lighted", 1958
	69	Observations: McCuiston, A.L., Tulsa, OK "red glow in the cloud", 1954
	70	Observations: McDevitt, Brian M., Deep Cove, Pemadumcook Lake, ME, 1975, 1975-1976
	71	Observations: McNeese, Lee, Albany, MO, about 1907 "looked inside funnel", 1958
	72	Observations: McPherson, E.D., Dyersburg, TN, March 21, 1952 "continuous vivid lightning" "orange glow in cloud", 1952
	73	Observations: Meabon, Herbert, Chautaugua City, NY "special lightning phenomenon", 1965
	74	Observations: Miami, FL, 1959
	75	Observations: Mississippi, 1966
	76	Observations: Multiple States, 1963-1965
	77	Observations: Multiple States, 1968
	78	Observations: Multiple States, 1969-1990
	79	Observations: Palm Sunday Tornado, Ohio, April 11, 1965, 1965
	80	Observations: Pyle, Mrs. Kenneth, E., Toledo, OH, April 1965 "streaks of lightning in the cloud itself", 1966
	81	Observations: Peterson, Jr., Howard C., Coral Gables "pale green and then pink sheet lightning", 1959
	82	Observations: Plummer, Genevieve, St. Louis, MO "brilliant pink and flame-like flare up from horizon", 1959
	83	Observations: Pulhuj, Mrs. Paul, Toledo, OH, April 1965 "all around me was red flashing lights constantly", 1966
	84	Observations: Rankin, Frances S., Shawnee, OK, May 1, 1954 "greenish glow in center", 1958
	85	Observations: Richardson, Marvin E., Winston City, MS, 1956 "faint orange luminescence", 1966
	86	Observations: Roberts, Alpheus J., Toledo, OH, April, 1965 "surface glow", 1965-1966
	87	Observations: Ross, Mrs. H.L., Toledo, OH, April 1965 "it appeared to be giving off a light of its own", 1965-1966
	88	Observations: Schenectady, NY, June 24, 1960, 1960
	89	Observations: Setkins, William B., Northern Indiana around 1900 "Willie get under the bed" "large electrical ball of fire", 1958
	90	Observations: Shaw, William, Nevada, MO, around 1925 or 1926 "funnel grows down out of the parent cloud", 1962
	91	Observations: Shepard, L.E., Electrification of steam jets "fire balls when steam escaping from railroad engines", 1966
	92	Observations: Spiess, Lincoln Bunce, St. Louis, MO "very rapidly lightning flashing", 1959
	93	Observations: Spurr, Allan, Springfield, IL "flash reminded me of welder's arc", 1957
	94	Observations: Thompson, Mrs. J.K., Fairfax, OK, June 2, 1935 "flash more like a ball of fire" "funnel was brick red", 1958
	95	Observations: Trussell, Cliff, Joplin, MO "difference in sound of thunder in tornado cloud" "cold air coming down", 1958
	96	Observations: Veal, Mrs. Talmadge, Macon, GA "incessant shimmer of light that had no thunder preceded", 1954
	97	Observations: Vonnegut, Sr., Kurt, Indianapolis, IN, 1955
	98	Observations: Wegener, Butch, Toledo, OH, 1965 "something very bright about the size of a basketball", 1965-1966
	99	Observations: Willett, Myron, Oregon, OH, April 1965 "pattern in the orange… like hell upside-down", 1966
	100	Observations: Wishnewitz, Harvey, Toledo, OH, 1965 "the place lit up just like daylight", 1965-1966
	101	Perkins, J.G. "Electromagnetism and the Tornado", 1975
	102	Photographs, 1955-1968
	103	Reprints and copies of tornado articles, 1959-1975
Box	Folder
2	1	"Research on Tornado Identification" Third and Fourth Quarterly Progress Reports, Signal Corps Research, 1955
	2	"'Selective Twisters' Secret: Severity Splits Funnels" Purdue University ScienceLine, 1975
	3	Tornado Eyewitness Questionnaire, Undated
	4	"Tornado Occurrences in the United States" U.S. Dept. of Commerce Weather Bureau Technical Paper No. 20, 1952
	5	Tornado Research Airplane Flight Data, 1956
	6	VanderHam, C.J., "Tornado's Korte allesvervoestende wervelwinden", 1975
	7	Vaughn, Jr., Otha H., "Luminous electrical phenomena associated with nocturnal tornadoes in Huntsville, Ala., 3 April 1974", 1976
	8	Vonnegut, Bernard - Tornado Articles, 1954-1968
	9	Ward, Neil B. "The Exploration of Certain Features of Tornado Dynamics Using a Laboratory Model" NOAA Technical Memorandum ERLTM-NSSL52, 1970
	10	"Windstorm Damage Protection" National Board of Fire Underwriters Research Division, 1955


Series 6: General Science Research and Inventions, 1911-2007, Undated 3.25 cubic feet
		Arranged alphabetically.
		Series 6 contains Dr. Vonnegut’s general interest and research files, as well as the inventions that he worked on throughout his career. Topics include: lightning, ball lightning, lightning strikes and the effect on aircraft, volcanic activity and storms on Mt. St. Helens and Surtsey, thunderstorm electrification, and weather-related instruments.
		A large quantity of photographs dominates the series. Please note that the archivist filed all loose photographs together. Many photographs are undated with no specifications on location or activity depicted. The archivist kept any photograph accompanying research or data with its respective material.
Box	Folder
1	1	Air Force Plane Crash - England, August 28, 1976
	2	"An Apparatus for Preventing the Formation and Falling of Hail" Patent Specification, 1906
	3	The Annals of Improbable Research, 1995 1997
	4	Art Forum, 1980
Oversized	Folder
2	3	Art Forum, 1980
Box	Folder
1	5	Articles - Multiple Topics Related to Weather, 1828-1987
	6	Atlas, David and Charles B. Moore "Exploring the Weather" Lecture Notes, Undated
	7	Atmospheric Pollution Instrumentation, 1954-1956
	8	"Atmospheric radioactivity following nuclear explosions" Office of Naval Research, 1952
	9	Ball Lightning, 1959-1990
	10	Ball Lightning Project, 1970-1972
Oversized	Folder
4	8	Ball Lightning Project, 1971 Undated
Box	Folder
1	11	Chaff Experiment, 1995-1996
	12	Characteristics of Vertical Lightning, 1950-1951 1987
	13	Correspondence: Foundation of Physics, 1973-1975
	14	Correspondence: Miscellaneous, 1955-1997
	15	Data, Multiple Projects, Undated
	16	Davis, Gode "The Stormy Future of Weather Forecasting", 1991
	17	Davis, M.H. "The Present Status of Atmospheric Electricity", 1979
	18	Device to Detect Presence of Electrical Fields, Undated
	19	DMSP Satellite Photographs and Article Reprints, 1968 1970 1974
	20	DeVries, Tom "California Drought: can we change the weather before it's too late?", 1977
	21	Encyclopedia of Climate and Weather, 1990
	22	Howell/Eustis Patent Case, 1945-1987
	23	Feyman Lectures, 1964 1965 1969
	24	Franklin Chimes Exhibit, 1957 1970-1974
	25	GBI, Photographs and Data, 1959
	26	Gedzelman, Stanley David "Science and Wonders of the Atmosphere", 1982
	27	Graph for Determining Height of Cloud Bases, Undated
	28	Invention: Aerosol Coagulator, 1970-1978
	29	Invention: Apparatus for Triggering Lightning, 1988-1992
	30	Invention: Apparatus to Reduce Atmospheric Pollution Caused by Exhaust of Motor Vehicles, 1990
	31	Invention: Cloud LWC Sensor, 1977
	32	Invention: ICE detector, 1986
	33	Invention: Means and Methods for Detecting and Measuring Aerosols - RESTRICTED, 1954-1960
	34	Invention: Means and Methods for Producing Particles of High Charge Density, 1963 1965
	35	Invention: Mechanical Means for Making Uniformly Sized Aerosols, 1962
	36	Invention: Method and Apparatus for Measuring the Concentration of Condensation Nuclei, 1949
	37	Invention: Microcell Instrument for Measurement of Electrical Conductivity of Cloud and Precipitation Water, 1978 1987
	38	Invention: Microconductivity Cell for Real Time Measurements of the Electrical Conductivity of Cloud or Rain Water, Undated
	39	Invention: Monitor and Spectrometer for Atmospheric Particulate Matter, 1963 1965
	40	Invention: Moisture Indicating Instrument, 1949
	41	Invention: Non-Conducting Fiber Electrometer, 1955-1956
	42	Invention: Rainfall Intensity Sensor, 1979-1980
	43	Invention: Tensiometer, 1951
	44	Invention: Vortex Whistle, 1953-1958
	45	Invention Records, 1933-1979
	46	Instruments, Undated
	47	Kamra, A.K., 1966-1983
	48	Kamra, A.K. "Dust Storm Electrification - Final Report to the National Science Foundation", 1971
	49	"Liebig & Wöhler" from A History of Chemistry, Undated
Oversized	Folder
3	8	Life Magazine, "American Production", 1948
Box	Folder
1	50	Lightning, 1920-1991
	51	Lightning during Yellowstone Fires, 1971 1988
	52	Lightning Observations, 1980-1984
	53	Lightning Preventions, Lightning Elimination Associates, Undated
	54	Lightning Strikes to Aircraft, General, 1965-1977
Oversized	Folder
3	9	Lightning Strikes to Aircraft, General, 1965-1977
Flat-File
2		Lightning Strikes to Aircraft, General, 1965-1977
Box	Folder
1	55	Lightning Strikes to Aircraft - Salt Lake, "Frontier" Photographs, Undated
	56	McCownan, Dennis - Time Magazine, 1996
	57	Mt. St. Helens, 1980-1981
Oversized	Folder
3	10	Mt. St. Helens, 1980-1981
Oversized	Folder
4	9	Mt. St. Helens, 1980-1981
Box	Folder
2	1	New York Times Articles on Weather, 1972-1986
	2-3	Oscillatory Anemometer, 1965-1995
	4	Oscillatory Anemometer Press Releases, 1988
	5	Patent Disclosures, 1973-1978
	6	Patents: General Electric, 1953-1959 1980
	7-9	Patents: Multiple Inventions, 1949-1987
Flat-File
1		Patents: Multiple Inventions, 1949-1987
Box	Folder
2	10	Patents: Photocopies, 1922-1961
	11	Patents: Reprints, 1889 1894 1932-1966
	12	Photographs, 1961
	13	Photographs, 1965
	14	Photographs and Data, Undated
	15	Photographs: Airplane, 1955
	16	Photographs: Antique Scientific Apparatus, Undated
	17	Photographs: Apparatus Dept. Presentation, Undated
	18	Photographs: ASRC Experiment, Undated
	19	Photographs: Dr. Langmuir, Undated
	20	Photographs: Instruments, 1955
	21	Photographs: Floyd Montgomery, 1967
	22	Photographs: Heimaey, Iceland, 1973
	23-24	Photographs: Illinois, 1960
	25	Photographs: Life Filmstrip "The Mystery of Rain", 1962
Oversized	Folder
4	10	Photographs: Life Filmstrip "The Mystery of Rain", 1962
Box	Folder
2	26	Photographs: Lightning, 1965
	27	Photographs: Miscellaneous, 1955
	28	Photographs: Miscellaneous, Undated
	29	Photographs: Mt. Withington, 1962
Box	Folder
3	1	Photographs: Radar, 1961
	2	Photographs: Roger Jensen, Detroit Lakes MN - Cloud and Storm prints, 1958-1977
	3	Photographs: Roy Arnold - Tornado, Undated
	4	Photographs: Socorro, 1979
	5	Photographs: Tornado, 1955
	6	Photographs: Vortices, Undated
	7	Photographs: Yellowstone, Undated
	8	Preston, F.W. and J.C. Turnbull "The Physics of Upward Drilling", 1941
	9	Princeton Pennsylvania Army Avionics Research Program, Final Task Report "A Fundamental Study of Static Electric Phenomena", 1972
	10	Reprints: Contrails, 1973
	11	Reprints: Convection and Convective Storms, 1973-1975
	12	Reprints: Electrical Measurements Above Thunderstorms, 1950 1957 1966
	13	Reprints: Electricity, 1974-1975
	14	Reprints: Electrostatics, 1971 1974-1975
	15	Reprints: Hailstorms, 1973-1974
	16	Reprints: Satellite Observations, 1974
	17	Reprints: Silver Iodide, 1971-1975
	18	Reprints: Studies in the Early History of Surface Chemistry, 1969-1974
	19	Requests for Reprints of Papers and American Meteorological Association Speech, 1954-1955
	20	"Requirements for Electrification", 1971
	21	Scorer, R.S., Presidential Address, Royal Meteorological Society, 1988-1989
	22	Smithsonian Aerophysical Observatory: Automatic Star Tracking System, 1959
	23	Snow, Snow Crystals, and Snow Storms, 1976
	24	Staples, Tad - Correlation between Thunder Pitch and Behavior of Storm, 1976
	25	Static Electricity, American Airlines, 1957
	26	Steacie, E.W.R. "Science, Society, and the Individual", 1959
	27	SUNY Research Publications, 1988
	28	Surtsey: Data and other associated documents, 1963-1964
	29	Surtsey: Photographs [1 of 2], 1963-1964
Box	Folder
4	1	Surtsey: Photographs [2 of 2], 1963-1964
	2	Swiss Maps Transfer, 1970-1972
	3	Telephone Conversation with First Lt. Roger C. Gardner, Hurricane Hugo Lightning Observation, 1989
	4	Thunderstorm Electricity, Undated
	5	Thunderstorm Electrification and Cloud Physics, 1959-1996
	6	Tilson, Seymour "IEEE Spectrum", 1969
	7	U-2 Conductivity Meter, 1986
Oversized	Folder
3	11	U-2 Conductivity Meter, 1986
Box	Folder
4	8	U.S. Weather Research Program, 1996
	9	Vlcek, Charles L. "Observations of Sever Storms on 26 and 28 April 1971" NOAA Technical Memorandum ERL NSSL-63, 1973
	10	Vonnegut, Bernard "Physics and the Environment", 1994
	11	Vonnegut, Bernard "Determinants of Thunderstorm Dipole Polarity According to Influence Theories of Cloud Electrification", 1993
	12	Warm Cloud Lightning, 1950-1990
	13	Weisskopf, Victor F. "Of Atoms, Mountains, and Stars: A Study in Quantitative Physics", 1975


Series 7: Manuscripts,
		Unprocessed at this time


Series 8: State University of New York at Albany,
		Unprocessed at this time


Series 9: Meetings and Conferences,
		Unprocessed at this time


Series 10: Subject Files, 1941-1996, Undated 6.4 cubic feet
		Arranged alphabetically.
		Series 10 contains files on a wide variety of subjects; people, articles, topics in science, and other topics of interest to Dr. Vonnegut throughout his career. Please note that a previous archivist processed this series, therefore some folder titles may be duplicated in other series that contain similar information.
Box	Folder
1	1-2	A, 1962-1976 1979-1982 1985 1989 1994
	3	AAAS "lonizers", 1980 1982
	4	AAAS: Stored Energy In Water, 1978 1981
	5	All Things C, 1995
	6	AM. Geophysical Union, 1963-1969 1981-1982
	7	Amer, N.M., U.CAL Berkeley, Photoacoustic Spectroscopy, 1978-1981
	8	BAMS "Errors" Column (AMS), Undated
	9	AMS, 1959-1969 1973 1976 1981 1990
	10	Arnold, Roy Misc., 1975-1976 1980 1982 1984
	11	Arnold, Stephen, Brooklyn Polytech, 1984-1986
	12	ASRC Conference, Electrostatics Bibliography, 1971
	13	ASRC Director, 1984-1985
	14-15	ASRC Misc., 1967-1986 1988 1990
	16	ASRC Pub No's, 1969-1970 1972
	17	ASRC Visit, Electrostatics Facility, 1972
	18-19	B, 1958-1995
	20	Baker, Marcia, 1984-1985
	21	Baller, Paul S., 1966-1967 1969 1972
	22	Balloon Program, 1982-1984 1986
	23	Time Lapse Photography from Balloons, 1957 1970 1976-1977
	24	Barchet "Other Seeding Agents & Alternatives to Silver Iodide, 1977
	25-26	Barreto, 1969 1977-1987
	27	Tankers (Re: Barreto), 1968 1970-1971
	28	Bentley, W.A., 1977-1979
	29	B Jornsson, S., 1966-1970
	30-31	Blanchard, 1938-1996
	32	Blau, Henry H, 1963 1966 1968-1970 1973-1974
	33-34	Boeck, William L, 1961 1971-1980 1984 1990 1992
	35	Bowers, 1991
	36	Breidenthal, R.E, 1985-1987 1989
	37	Buechner, W.W., 1968-1969 1973-1974
	38	Bullock , J.W, 1965-1969
Box	Folder
2	1-2	C, 1960-1996
	3	Chapman, Seville (DR), 1954 1968 1970-1974 1976
	4	Clood Seeding, 1952-1956 1958 1961-1967
	5	Church, C.R, 1970-1971 1975 1979-1983 1995
	6	Cook, Jim, Undated
	7	Corrugahorn, 1976
	8	Crawford, Perry, 1979 1981-1982
	9	D, 1962-1976 1978 1980 1987-1988 1991-1992
	10	Da Vinci, Leonardo, 1956
	11	Derenzo, David R., 1979 1981-1983 1988-1989
	12	Dessens, Henri, 1973
	13	Detwiler, Andy, 1976-1986 1988-1991 1993-1994
	14-15	Dewan, Edmond, 1965-1994
	16	Dewan's Mystery Cloud, 1985
	17	Dolezalek, Hans, 1962-1963 1966-1976 1980-1981
	18	Doppler Radar, 1978-1979
	19	E, 1962-1972 1978-1979 1982 1985-1986 1990
	20-21	EDC Film, 1966 1968-1971 1973
	22	Film "Atmospheric Electricity", 1960 1964-1965
	23	Eden H.F. (Frank), 1966-1968 1972-1973 1975-1976 1987
	24	ESPY, 1993
	25-26	F, 1961-1987
	27	Findeisen Quote, 1950
	28	The Franklin Institute 3/18/70, 1969-1971 1974
	29	Ben Franklin References, 1952 1961 1991-1992
	30	Fulgurites, 1976
	31	G, 1961-1977 1980-1981 1985 1988
	32	Gaston Gronet, 1945 1947 1959-1960
	33	Griffiths [1 of 2], 1948 1972-1979 1983 1989
Box	Folder
3	1	Griffiths [2 of 2], 1948 1972-1979 1983 1989
	2	Grenet, 1947-1994
	3	H, 1965-1975 1977-1989 1991 1994
	4	Heffernan, Warm Cloud Electrification, 1957
	5	Henderson, Thomas J, 1968-1997
	6	High Voltage Generators, 1956 1967-1971
	7	Hobbs, Peter, 1983 1985
	8	Holeworth , R.H, 1974 1981 1983-1987 1989
	9	Hollister, Walter M., 1985
	10	Holloman, Herb, 1969 1984-1985
	11	Howard, John A., 1969 1971-1976
	12	Howell, Wallace, 1941-1942 1965-1967 1969 1986
	13	Holzer, Rob't E, 1955 1962-1963
	14-15	Huges, James, 1955 1961 1974-1977 1981-1986 1988
	16-17	Huges, James C - 59667, 1957-1958 1961-1971
	18	Huges, James, Appreciation, 1988
	19	Huges, James, Dinner, 18, May, 1988
	20	Huges Plaque, 1984 1988
	21	Jeremy HYLKA "Alert Illinois" Tornado Research Team, 1991-1994
	22	Helgafell Volcano, Heimacy, 1973
	23	I, 1962-1969 1971 1973-1975 1980-1983
	24	ICAE, 1994-1996
	25-26	Iceland, 1964
	27	Iceland, 1965
	28	Imianitov. I.M, 1965 1985 1987
	29	Initiation of Lightning Discharges on Demand, Winder, Ron, 1964-1965
	30	Israelsson "Fallout", 1990
	31	J, 1963-1970 1972 1975-1976 1986-1987 1989-1990
	32	Johns Hopkins University, 1963-1965
Box	Folder
4	1-2	K, 1963-1994
	3	Kuttner, Joachim Mct. Rundschau, 1950
	4-5	L, 1963-1973 1975 1977-1989 1991 1993-1994
	6	Lane-Smith, Dereck, 1968-1974 1977-1978
	7	Langmuir, Irving, 1993 1996
	8	Langmuir, Irving "Hurricane", 1945 1955
	9	Langmuir I. Studies of the effects produced by dry ice seeding of stratus clouds, Undated
	10	Lansford: Mosaic Article About Global Circuit, 1982-1983
	11	John Latham, 1964-1991
	12	LEIPSIG, 1996
	13	Lescarboura, Julio, 1967
	14	Alan Lightman, When do anomalies Begin? Science 7 Feb 91, 1992
	15	Lightning, 1994
	16	Leob, Leonard B,, 1963 1965 1970-1971
	17	Lomonosov, 1987 1992
	18	Lukomski, Hieronim, 1964-1965
	19-20	M, 1963-1994
	21	MacCready, Paul B. (Dr), 1964 1970 1977 1985
	22	Malon, D.J., 1962-1963 1965
	23	Mason Day, Fri May 11 1979, 1978-1979
	24	Mason, S.G., 1965-1970 1976 1979-1980 1985-1987
	25	Mazur, Vladislav, 1982 1984 1988
	26	McC, 1962-1970 1972-1973 1977 1989 1992
	27	Martell, E.A, 1958 1970-1972 1983-1984
	28	McMahon, Howard & Tom, 1963 1966-1970 1983-1984 1986-1988
	29	Media, 1975 1978-1983
	30	Mekcher & Zahn (MIT), 1969-1970 1973 1989
	31	Michnowski, Stanislaw, 1966-1996
	32	Michnowski, Stanislaw, Undated
	33	Moondust, 1964-1965
Box	Folder
5	1	N, 1962-1969 1981 1984
	2	NASA, 1962-1966
	3	National Geographic, 1990 1993
	4	National Science Foundation, 1962-1989
	5	Newton's Apple "Tornadoes", Undated
	6	Nifuku, Masaharu, 1973-1977
	7-8	Office of Naval Research, 1966-1971 1973 1982
	9	O, 1964-1966 1970-1975 1977 1980 1984
	10-11	P, 1961-1994
	12	ATM Electr. Pageopj, 1982-1983 1987-1988
	13	Passarelli-Camera Flights, 1976
	14	re: Passarelli experiments, 1972-1973 1980
	15	Passarelli, R.E., Jr., 1972-1974 1982-1983 1987
	16	Perkin- Elmer, 1982
	17	Petterssen, Sveerre, 1963 1967-1968 1996
	18	Popular Mechanics, 1963
	19	Pounder, Colin, 1975-1979 1986
	20	D.E. Proctor Letter: Malam + CTR, 1970-1971 1974 1991
	21	Q, 1963-1964 1981
	22-23	R, 1958-1996
	24	Radioactivity, 1964-1966
	25	Reinhardt,Nick, 1968-1974 1976-1977
	26	Research Corporation, 1972-1973
	27	Review Ohanian Chapter Atmospheric Electric Norton Co. Drake Mcfeely, 1983-1985
	28	Review Krider & Roble "The Earths Electrical Environment", 1985
	29	R.R. Rogers (McGill) A Short Course in Cloud Physics, 1980-1981
	30	Russian Weather MOD Article, 1967
	31	Ryan, Bob, 1968-1996
	32-35	S, 1961-1996
	36	Saffer Charles, 1995
	37	Sanders Frederick, 1978 1985
	38	Saturday Review, 1965-1968 1970
	39-40	V.J. Schaefer, 1954-1993
Box	Folder
6	1	VJS Library, 1982
	2	Vincent Schaefer & Snow Makings by Katherine B. Blodgett, 1947-1948
	3	Schwarz, Joe, 1992 1994
	4	Science, 1964-1992
	5	Science Fortnightly, Inc., 1965
	6	Science History, 1992-1993
	7	U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce 3/8/66, 1966
	8	Senate Com. Inferior & Insular Affairs 3/23/66, 1966
	9	Paul Silberg, 1963 1965 1976-1978 1981-1982
	10	Silverman, Sam (DR.), 1974 1977-1978 1984-1985
	11	Joanne Simpson, 1963-1995
	12	Sprites etc., 1993-1996
	13	Standler, Ronald, 1970-1973 1976
	14	Stanford, John L., 1971-1972 1975-1976
	15	Static Electricity Sensor For Helicopters, Army Fort Eustes, VA, 1979
	16	Stith, Jeffrey L, 1985
	17	Stockmayer Walter, 1973 1975 1982-1983 1987
	18	Stone, Robert G., 1970-1971
	19	Strange, John P, 1964 1966 1968
	20	Sugar Explosions, 1965
	21-22	SUNY, State University of N.Y @ Albany, 1965-1969 1971-1981 1985 1991
	23	SUNY, State University of N.Y @ Albany, Mary Fiess Update Jan 21 1987, 1987
	24	SUNYA - "The Atmosphere" Art Museum Show, 1993
	25	Surtsey, 1965
	26	The Swiss Watch by John Leimert, Undated
	27-28	T, 1962-1994
	29	Hannes Tammet, USSR, 1964 1975-1977 1984-1985 1992
	30	Bill Taylor ELF, 1986
	31	Taylor, Sir Geoffrey, 1965-1967 1969
	32	Thor Guard, 1975
	33	A.J. Thrope Weather, 1981 1988 1991
	34	Trefethen, L., 1985
	35	Twitchell, Paul, 1989
	36	U, 1962-1967 1970-1972
	37	UCAR Cups Research Project, 1980
	38	UFO Articles, 1966
	39	USA Today, 1995
	40	V, 1958-1988
	41-43	W, 1959 1961-1980 1982-1985 1991 1993-1997
	44	WMO Technical Note, 1974-1975
	45	Observations Hurricane Alicia R.T Walter, 1983
	46	Rob't Watts, Tulane U. Theory of Prester Tornadoes, 1971-1975
	47	Weather Bureau, 1964-1966
	48	Wegener, 1992
	49	Weickmann, Helmut, 1965 1967-1968
	50	Weide Robert B., 1994
	51	Weyer, J.R, 1966 1968 1974
Box	Folder
7	1-2	John Willett, 1972-1974 1976 1980-1983 1991
	3-4	Earle Williams, 1975-1976 1979-1994
	5	E Wms 2/5 Ms, 1986
	6	William Dale Williams, 1974
	7	Wise, George (GE), 1984
	8	Wood, C.A. "Unusual lightning", 1951
	9	Whyaduck Production, 1996
	10	Wyckoff, Pete, 1965-1969 1971-1972


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