Guide to the John R. Pierce Papers
Note
Biographical/Historical Sketch
Accesion ARCH-1999-306 Original Accession
Journal 1986 – 88
Journal 1988 – 92
Journal 1992 – 95
Poems
Music MSS c. 1936 – 37
Correspondence: Borroff, Marie
Correspondence: re. Current Directions in Computer Music Research
Correspondence: re. “Periodicity and Pitch Perception”
Correspondence: re. “Computing Education”
Correspondence: Noll, A. Michael
Honorary degrees
Telephone book
Photos
Computer invoice
Patent for Passive Non-Linear Filter, 1996-97
Pamphlets
Computers in Higher Education – Report, 1967
Gilbert, Steven – "Academic Software – Vision and Perspective; working paper March 15, 1985"
Computer / Human Conversation
Pathological Science – articles
Pierce, “Technology and Music in the 20th Century”
Research: artists on “Edwardian Gents and the Arabs”
Reprint: Pierce, “Ears and Hearing” 1994
Reprint: Pierce, “Periodicity and Pitch Perception” 1991
Studies [assorted articles]
Essays and a story
Accession ARCH-2004-259 Additional material
Cal Tech visit to Soviet Union 1973
NASA Space Committee Research and Development 1987
Vienna conference (Pierce, "The Contribution of Psychophysics to Music and of Music to Psychophysics") 1990
Biographical information
Biographical information
Biographical information ("Miscellaneous, personal, trips and what not" – includes notes from Soviet Union trip of 1973)
Pierce, My Career as an Engineer; An Autobiographical Sketch, 1988
Papers by Pierce
Papers by Pierce
Publications 1981 – 1990
Publications 1991
Publications 1994-97
Publications 1998 – 2003
Publications on J.R. Pierce
Publications – Fiction
Publications – Fiction
Publications – Fiction
Publications – miscellaneous
Amazing Stories, October 1934 [does not include anything by Pierce]
Stories, typescript
Stories, typescript, "The Blues"
Stories, typescript, "Tales of the Twelve Teddies"
Stories, manuscript and typescript
Stories and verse
Verse
Posthumous papers
J.R. Pierce bibliography
"J.R. Pierce Bibliography and much much more, March 26, 1995"
Pierce, bibliography
C.I.T. oral history with J. R. Pierce, 1982
Photographs, 1963-1995
Draper Prize, 1995
Miscellaneous materials
Awards
Cal Tech alumni
Correspondence – W. H. Freeman (publisher) 1983-1997
Correspondence – publishers 1981-1994
Correspondence – Arthur C. Clarke 1988
Correspondence – Andrew Goldstein 1991-92
Correspondence – University of Wyoming (American Heritage Center), 1983-1991
Correspondence, general, 1964, 1981-90
Correspondence, general, 1992-2002
First phone call off echo
Echo – photographs 1960-68
Marconi International Fellowship 1996-97
Personal correspondence and papers
Index to Technical Memoranda
Report on Visit to British electronics laboratories by J. R. Pierce and H. D. Hagstrum, 1944
Transcript of visit with H. G. Wells 1944
System Development Foundation, Annual Report, 1988
International Symposium on Music and Information Science (Japan) 1989
Northwestern University concert in honor of Pierce 1990 (includes correspondence with Amnon Wolman 1990-91)
Bolinger, Richard, "I Know of No Geometry" (a solo work in five movements written in the Pierce Scale) 1990
Bauman, Marcia, "Early Computer Sound and Music Synthesis at Bell Telephone Laboratories," Ph.D. thesis, U. of Rochester, 1995
Tribute to Barney Oliver [Bernard M. Oliver] 1995
Music From Mathematics produced by Bell Telephone Laboratories (LP record with text) 1960
Manuscript musical scores
FLOPPY DISK: Opera
Japan ‘89
J.C. Risset / Echo
Books:
The Bell System Technical Journal, 1972.
California Institute of Technology. Yearbook, 1933.
Friis, Harald T. Seventy-five Years in an Exciting World.
IEEE Press. A Century of Honors.
IEEE Press. Compendium of Communication and Broadcast Satellites, 1958 to 1980.
IRCAM (J.R. Pierce contributor). Passage du XX siecle.
National Academy of Engineering (J. R. Pierce contributor). Technology and International Trade.
Pierce, John R. Proceedings of the IRE.
Pierce, John R. Radio-Electronics.
Pierce, John R. and Edward E. David, Jr. Man’s World of Sound.
Pierce, John R. and Hiroshi Inose. Information Technology and Civilization. (2 copies)
Pierce, J. Almost All About Waves (in Russian).
Pierce, John R. An Introduction to Information Theory. (2 copies).
Pierce, John R. Quantum Electronics and Waves and Messages.
Pierce, John R. and Edward C. Posner. Introduction to Communication Science and Systems. (2 copies).
Pierce, John R. and Arthur G. Tressler. The Research State: A History of Science in New Jersey.
Books:
Pierce, John R. The Science of Musical Sound. (3 copies).
Pierce, John R. Telecommunicatie.
Pierce, John R. Klank en Muziek. (4 copies).
Pierce, John R. and Michael Noll. Signals (2 copies).
Pierce, John R. and Michael Noll. Signals (in Spanish, 2 copies).
Pierce, John R. Le Son Musical.
Pierce, John R. The Science of Musical Sound (in Japanese).
Pierce, John R. My Career as an Engineer.
Pierce, John R. The Beginnings of a Satellite Communications.
Pierce, John R. Science, Art and Communication.
Certificates, mounted photographs, and Saturday Evening Post articles (Jan. 14, 1961 on Echo satellite and Nov. 4, 1961 article by Pierce on computers)