Thomas Darlington Cope papers, ca. 1909-1964

Mss.B.C794

Date: Circa 1909-1964 | Size: 7 Linear feet

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Abstract

This is a collection of Cope's articles, papers, notes, lectures, notebooks, and some correspondence. There is much on his research pertaining to Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, and other topics in the history of science on which he wrote. The collection includes lecture notes and three bound notebook volumes on mechanics from his study at the University of Berlin under Max Planck from 1912 to 1913. There are 11 additional bound volumes, all relating to physics, including: Minutes of meetings of the Department of Physics, University of Pennsylvania (1910-1919), two volumes on the history of physics, and a volume of data on the radiometer as a measurer of electric current. The collection also contains notes on electric circuit theory lectures (1924-1925) by J.R. Carson, notes on lectures on relativity (1921) by Albert Einstein, lectures by W.F.G. Swann (1928), and information about the Pennsylvania Academy of Science, and on radiation (1909). There is significant correspondence from Lionel G. Dixon and Victor Englehardt.

Background note

Physicist and historian of science Thomas Darlington Cope received his A.B. (1903) and Ph.D. (1915) from the University of Pennsylvania; he became an instructor and later professor there from 1906-1952. He also studied at the University of Berlin (1912-1913) under Max Planck.

Digital objects note

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Collection Information

Physical description

7 linear ft.

Provenance

Gift from Cope estate and accessioned, 1969 (1969 2136ms).

Indexing Terms

Corporate Name(s)

Pennsylvania Academy of Science
University of Pennsylvania. Dept. of Physics

Genre(s)

Articles.
Lecture notes.
Lectures.
Minutes.
Notebooks.
Notes.

Geographic Name(s)

Mason-Dixon Line.

Subject(s)

Electric circuits.
Electric currents.
Mechanics
Physics -- History.
Radiation.
Radiometers.
Relativity (Physics)
Science -- History.

Detailed Inventory


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Dr. Thomas D. Cope family portrait	ca. 1917	1 photograph(s)	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
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Mss.B.C794 Correspondence			Request Series for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Series
Alternating Currents			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
American Association for the Advancement of Science			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
American Institute of Physics			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Ames and Murnaghan			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Apprentice Years of Mason and Dixon			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
The Astronomical Manuscripts			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Charles Mason gave to....John Ewing
Astronomical Observations			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Book on Physics			Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Boundary Surveys	1760s		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Local natural philosophers who counselled surveys
Brandywine Valley Association, Inc.			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Dr. Bradley			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Greenwich observations. Tables of the Moon. Records from the Nautical Almanac
Dr. Bradley Memoirs			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Carson, J. R.			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Lectures
Central forces. Orbits.			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
English men of science
Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
The Royal Society
College Physics Teachers			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Cope, Deborah			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Correspondence			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Correspondence. Mason and Dixon			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Condolence letters			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Cummings, Hubertis M			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Dixon, Lionel G			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Dynamics			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Early Pennsylvania Meridians			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
George M. Fisman notes
Edwards			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Problems
Einstein, Albert	1921		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Lectures on relativity.
Electrodynamics			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Other Descriptive Information: Dr. W. F. G. Swann
Emmett, Thomas Addis			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Engelhardt, Viktor			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Fiedler, Anna			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Fiedler, Ed			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Field notes, Provincial surveyors.			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
George M. Fisman			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Franklin Institute			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Graeff, Arthur D			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Gyroscope			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Hassler, Ferdinand R			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Hildebrand, Joel H			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Historical Society of Pennsylvania	1951 October 30		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Instruments			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Italy's Contribution to Physics			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Jeans. Problems			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Laboratory reports			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Lecture notes			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Mahoney, William T.			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
"The Post marked West on the Mason-Dixon Line."
Mason and Dixon	1947 July		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Mason and Dixon and Franklin			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Mason and Dixon at St. Helena.			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Mason and Dixon at St. Helena with Nevil Maskelyne			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Mason and Dixon at St. Helena with Nevil Maskelyne			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Carl H. Roeder's notes.
Mason and Dixon.			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Governor Sharpe's correspondence
Mason and Dixon	1951-10-30		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Mason and Dixon in America			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Mason and Dixon line: literature University of Pennsylvania library			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Mason and Dixon literature			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
American Philosophical Society and Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Mason and Dixon	1943--06-23		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Norristown Rotary Club
Mason and Dixon			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Notes from standard sources.
Mason and Dixon talk: Pennsylvania Academy of Science.	1939-09-23		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Mason and Dixon: Philosophical Transactions.			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Mason and Dixon: Spring	1950		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Mason and Dixon survey: A scientific enterprise			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Mason and Dixon: Watch and clock collection	1949-05-00		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
National Convention
Mechanics - Current			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Meridian of Philadelphia			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Correspondence with Joseph Hyde Pratt and Homer Rosenberger
Miscellaneous notes from published works.			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Moment of inertia.			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Noise			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Notes from Burchard and Matthew's bibliography			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Notes from various sources.	1953-1954		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Obituary			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Our ethical problems.			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Pendleton's notes.	1941 Autumn		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Mason and Dixon
Penn Letter books			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Penn manuscripts Historical Society of Pennsylvania			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Pennsylvania Academy of Science			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Pennsylvania Boundaries			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Notes. Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania Conference of College Physics Teachers			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Pennsylvania History			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Philadelphia Trail Club			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
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Physics Club of Philadelphia			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Physics - Dr. W.F.G.Swann			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Physical Society of Philadelphia papers			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Ends E.Witmer and J.Rhodes et al
Planck, Max			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Problems			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Provincial surveyors. Field notes			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Radiation			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Recordak Corporation			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Rittenhouse Astronomical Society			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Rumford, Count			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Benjamin Thomson
Rutschky, Charles William, Jr.			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Thomas Barton
Science Counselor			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Seddon, R E			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Some incidents in the story of magnetism.			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Some local scholars	1760s		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Counselled the Proprietors of Pennsylvania and their com¬ missioners during the boundary surveys.
Some questions about Mgson and Dixon			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Sound			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Spherical Harmonics			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
The Stargazer's Stone			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
The Stargazer's Stone.			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Manuscript and galley
Dr. Stradling			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Principle of relativity
Summer work	1931-1935		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Swann, W.F.G.			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Electrodynamics
Swann, W.F.G.	1928		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Lectures
Swann, W.F.G.			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Relativity
Theory of potential			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Wayne, Pennsylvania property			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Webster - notes			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Werckshager, Karl			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
When the stars interrupted the running of a meridian line northward up the Delmarva peninsula			Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File

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