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Descriptive Summary
	Collection Number:	MS C 337
	Creator:	Lamport, Harold, 1908-1975
	Title:	Harold Lamport Papers
	Dates:	1925-1979
	Quantity:	36 linear feet (80 boxes)
	Abstract:	Correspondence, laboratory notebooks, research manuscripts, reprints, reports, aviation industry publications, photographs, slides, newsclippings, and artifacts document the distinguished medical research career of Harold Lamport, best known for his groundbreaking work in hemodynamics and the improvement of antigravity flight suits, iron lung devices, and high-frequency sound wave devices for fragmenting kidney and gall stones.

Biographical/Historical Note

Harold Lamport was born on February 16, 1908 in New York City to Arthur M. and Sadie Lamport. His initial life's goal was to become a mathematical physicist and his academic course took him to Harvard University where he majored in mathematics and physics. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in 1929 and was elected Phi Beta Kappa. Lamport completed post-graduate work in physics and mathematics at the University of Göttingen (Germany) before studying medicine at Columbia University, where he graduated in 1934. After his residency at Bethel Israel Hospital in New York City, he became Director of the Richard Koster Research Laboratory from 1937 to 1939. Then from 1939 to 1942 he was a member of Columbia University's Medical School in the Department of Neurology. He joined the faculty of the Department of Physiology at Yale University's School of Medicine in 1942, lecturing on the application of mathematics and physics to physiology and medicine. Lamport was appointed research professor of physiology at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and Graduate School of Biological Sciences at City University of New York in 1951 and remained there until his death.

During his tenure at Yale during World War II, he worked on the pneumatic lever suit, an improved anti-gravity suite worn by airplane pilots to prevent blackouts at high speeds. The technology was later improved into the suits worn by NASA astronauts. Lamport's high altitude flying suits (Anti-G suits) used in World War II by U.S. Air Force pilots were displayed at the Smithsonian Institution's Air and Space Museum in 1976. Another outgrowth of this work was a portable iron lung/emergency respirator developed with his colleague Ralph D. Eichorn. It was made of rubberized cloth for military use in the battlefield. Also during World War II, he worked as a research associate and as a medical director of military research projects at the Pierce Foundation Laboratory of Hygiene in New Haven, CT. Here he was responsible for research on government contracts involving aviation blackout protection, concussions, and ultrasound and wound ballistics.

In the 1950s Lamport, along with Eichorn and Herbert F. Newman, pioneered the use of high-frequency sound waves to disintegrate gall stones, thus eliminating the need for surgery. He repeated this success with kidney stones in 1955. For this work he received the ultrasonic research award from the Bircher Foundation in 1955, and the Medical Ultrasonics Award from the American Institute of Ultrasonics in 1956.

Lamport was not only known as an excellent medical researcher, but also as a highly sought after professor and writer. His prolific work in the field of hemodynamics, or the study of pressure and rate of the flow of blood in small bloodvessels using mathematical applications, can be found in a vast array of physiology textbooks and professional journals. At the time of his death, he was investigating the study of abortifacients and pre-conceptual gender determination. His was an attitude of the renaissance thinker, of mastering areas of pathology and physiology through scientific study and methodological rigor.

A distinguished scientist and educator, Lamport many professional affiliations included membership in the American Association of the Advancement of Science (Life Fellow); New York Academy of Medicine (Life Fellow); American Engineering Society; American Heart Association; and the New York Academy of Science. He served on several medical and scientific boards and maintained a close relationship with Mount Sinai Medical School and its Academic Council until his death on December 27, 1975. Several prestigious physiology and medicine awards are given in his honor.

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Collection Summary

Correspondence, laboratory notebooks, research manuscripts, reprints, reports, aviation industry publications, photographs, slides, newsclippings, and artifacts (1925-1979; 36 linear feet) document the distinguished medical research career of Harold Lamport, best known for his groundbreaking work in hemodynamics and the improvement of antigravity flight suits, iron lung devices, and high-frequency sound wave devices for fragmenting kidney and gall stones.

The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence and subject files, Series 2 and 6-7. Lamport maintained three different filing structures for his correspondence: alphabetical by individual name; general chronological; and general alphabetical. This series contains information about all aspects of his research. Lamport's subject files were also maintained in two unidentifiable portions. The supplied subtitles, Active and Inactive Research, are a best-guess at the function of the two series. Both series contain similar information and arrangement structures. Each subject file series contains correspondence, published materials, newsclippings, manufacturer's advertising, and other types of background information covering all areas of Lamport's research interests. Likewise, Series 4 contains a wealth of supplies and equipment information used in his experiments. Series 10 contains reprints from colleagues and other scientists working in the same fields as Lamport.

The collection lacks a large amount of Lamport's actual research data. Series 3, Lab Notebooks, primarily documents his bench research in the hemodynamics associated with hypertension and his work on ultrasonic solutions for kidney and gall stone ailments. Series 6, Active Research subject files also contains his work as principal investigator for the PHS contract at Yale, involving research on ultrasonic therapeutic fragmentation of calculi. Series 7, Presentations also contains research dealing with ultrasonic lithotresis in the ureter. Series 12, Photographs, also contains images of many experimental devices and artifacts from this research can be found in Series 13.

His role in developing the anti-gravity suit is best documented in Series 5, Meetings and Reports. This series documents Lamport's meetings with national organizations, such as the National Research Council (Committee on Aviation Medicine), Yale Aeromedical Research Unit, and Air Materiel Command. The Reports subseries details findings on the efficiency of a bladder in transmitting pressure through a garment and how it is affected by both friction and curvature. These findings were result of Lamport and his colleagues in testing the anti-acceleration suits presented to the Acceleration Committee in Washington, DC on September 17, 1943. Likewise significant information can also be found in the Publications, Correspondence, and Subject Files series.

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Restrictions

Collection is not restricted. Contact the Reference Staff for information regarding access. For online customer service, please visit custserv@nlm.nih.gov.

Copyright

Copyright was transferred to the public domain. Contact the Reference Staff for details regarding rights. For online customer service, please visit custserv@nlm.nih.gov.

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	MeSH Subjects
		Aerospace Medicine
		Biophysics
		Hemodynamic Processes
		Physiology
	Personal Names
		Eichorn, Ralph D.
		Newman, Herbert Francis, 1910-
	Corporate Names
		Mount Sinai School of Medicine
		Yale University. School of Medicine

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Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

Lamport, Harold. Harold Lamport Papers. 1925-1979. Located in: Modern Manuscripts Collection, History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD; MS C 337.

Provenance

Gift, Mrs. Harold Lamport, 3/11/1977, Acc #244. Deaccessioned gift, University of Wyoming American Heritage Center, 11/11/2003, Acc #2003-48.

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Series Descriptions



Series I: Personal and Biographical, 1942-1979
Box	Folder
1	1	Biographies
1	2	Photograph of Harold Lamport, n.d.
1	3	Resume and biography, n.d.
1	4	Obituaries and memoriams, 1975-1976
1	5	Drawings by grandchildren, n.d.
1	6	Distinguished service professor award honoring Dr. Harold and Golden Lamport, 1979
1	7	Yale University, faculty appointments, 1942-1975
1	8	Personal correspondence, 1962-1965
1	9	Editorial comments, 1958-1960
1	10	Phi Beta Kappa Fraternity, Alpha Chapter of Massachusetts
1	11	Certificates, 1920-1976
1	12	Postcards, 1927-1955
1	13	Resolution made on behalf of H. Lamport, 1976

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Series II: Correspondence, 1937-1975
Box	Folder
		Individuals
2	1-2		Baer, Rudolf L., 1946-1969
2	3		Bazett, H.D., 1946-1956
2	4		Corcoran, A.C., 1941-1949
2	5		Eichhorn, Ralph D., 1947-1956
2	6		Feinstein, Alvan R., 1964-1972
2	7		Foa, Piero P., 1941-1942
2	8		Fulton, John F., 1942-1962
2	9-10		Green, Jack Peter, 1964-1968
2	11		Hardland, L.S., 1950-1951
2	12		Hirschfield, Alan S., 1951; 1954
2	13		Hoff, Ebbe Curtis, 1943-1945
2	14		Houssay, Bernardo A., 1943-1945
2	15		Hyman, Chester, 1946-1962
2	16		King, Theodore M., 1973-1974
2	17		Newman, Herbert, 1943-1949
3	1		Putnam, Tracy, 1939-1942
3	2		Rennie, Donald W., 1953
3	3		Scher, Allen M., 1949-1955
3	4		Schorr, Marvin G., 1944-1955
3	5		Share, Leonard, 1949; 1951
3	6		Smith, Homer, 1939-1942; 1960
3	7		Stark, Lawrence, 1960-1969
3	8		Sussman, Ralph, 1942-1971
3	9		Zaslabsky, Sam, 1960-1962
		General, alphabetical
3	10		A--Al,1941-1969
3	11		Am--Ba, 1951-1974
3	12		Be--Bu, 1950-1970
3	13		Ca--Cop, 1948-1970
3	14		Cor--Dri, 1940-1974
3	15		E--Fo, 1938-1973
3	16		Fr--Fu, 1947-1974
4	1		G--Gro, 1940-1975
4	2		Gru--He, 1946-1975
4	3		Hi--K, 1939-1970
4	4		L--Li, 1940-1973
4	5		Lo--Ma, 1943-1973
4	6		Mc--Neh, 1940-1975
4	7		Neu--Pal, 1937-1970
4	8		Pap--Pot, 1942-1969
4	9		Pr--Ro, 1941-1974
4	10		Ru--Sha, 1943-1973
4	11		Sho--Sm, 1944-1963
5	1		So--Sti, 1946-1974
5	2		Stu--U, 1946-1974
5	3		V--Wie, 1945-1975
5	4		Wig--Z, 1949-1973
5	5		NIH Regulations, 1961-1974
5	6		Case Report: Patient Mertens, 1966-1975
		General, chronological, 1943-1975
5	7		Jan 4, 1927-Dec 18, 1943
5	8		Feb 7-Dec 29, 1944
5	9		Jan 2-Dec 21, 1945
5	10		Jan 11, 1946-Sep 28, 1949
5	11		Mar 23-Dec 29, 1950
5	12		Jan 2-Dec 10, 1951
5	13		Jan 8-Oct 30, 1952
6	1		Jan 2, 1953-Nov 19, 1954
6	2		Jan 11-Dec 20, 1955
6	3		Jan 4-Dec 13, 1956
6	4		Jan 2, 1957-Dec 4, 1958
6	5		Jan 22-Dec 30, 1959
6	6		Feb 5-Dec 27, 1960
6	7		Feb 15, 1961-Dec 5, 1962
6	8		Jan 15, 1963-June 2, 1966
6	9		April 24, 1967-Jan 15, 1969
6	10		Sep 18, 1970-Nov 10, 1975
6	11	Miscellaneous, n.d.

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Series III: Lab Notebooks, 1925-1960
Box	Folder
7	1	Chemistry, 1925-1927
7	2	Bladder and Cardiac Surgery, 1925-1937
7	3	Hypertension I and II, 1937-1938
7	4	Hypertension III and IV, 1938-1939
7	5	Hypertension I, 1939-1940
7	6	Hypertension II, 1941
7	7	Hypertension III, 1941
8	1	Hypertension IV, 1941
8	2	Renin I and II, 1938-1939
8	3	Renin Preps, 1939
8	4	Spiral Anesthesia and Liver Poison, 1937
8	5-6	X-rays, 1941-1943
8	7	Neurology Department, n.d.
8	8	Notes, miscellaneous, n.d.
9	1	Ultrasonic Project, 1950-1953
9	2	Ultrasonic Project, 1957-1958
9	3	Ultrasonic Drill Project, 1958-1959
9	4	Ultrasonic Drill Project, 1959-1960
10	1	Ultrasonic lithotresis, 1960-1961
10	2	Urology II, 1961
10	3	Urology III, 1961
10	4-6	Untitled school notes, n.d.
74		Electroncardiographs: tests for historisis frequency, n.d.
79-80		Unidentified frequency results charts (oversize)

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Series IV: Laboratory Materials and Supplies
Box	Folder
		Correspondence
11	1		Dec 13, 1939-Nov 11, 1942
11	2		Feb 10-Oct 9, 1943
11	3		Jan 12-Dec 27, 1944
11	4		Jan 5-Aug 29, 1945
11	5		Sep 4-Dec 26, 1945
11	6		Jan 4-Feb 26, 1946
11	7		Feb 27-July 16, 1946
11	8		Jan 10, 1947-April 19, 1954
12	1-11	Supplies invoices, 1945-1955
		Product Information
13	1		Adhesives
13	2		Aluminum
13	3		Amplifiers
13	4		Battery charger, n.d.
13	5		Burlingame Associates, 1961
13	6		Centrifuges, 1959
13	7-8		Colorimeter spectrophotometer, 1953-1959
13	9		Computers, Digital / Analog, 1957-1959
13	10		Controls, electronics and power supplies, 1959
13	11		Dow Corning, 1961
13	12		EICO amplifier, n.d.
13	13		Emesco dental engine, n.d.
13	14		Fiber grader, 1957
13	15		Flowmeters, 1953-1957
13	16		Glass, 1957
13	17		Graphic recorders, 1955-1958
13	18		Grinding wheels, n.d.
13	19		Infrared converter
13	20		Infrared opitcal elements, 1957-1958
13	21-22		Instrumentation, electronics, 1958-1959
14	1-3		Instrumentation, electronics, 1958-1959
14	4		Lab equipment, 1958
14	5		Light sources, 1958
14	6		Metals, 1957-1958
14	7-8		Microscopes, 1956-1958
14	9		Motor and Gears, 1957-1959
14	10		New equipment information, 1960
14	11		Office equipment, 1957-1958
14	12		Optics, 1955-1958
14	13		Oscilloscopes, n.d.
14	14		Photo multiplier tubes, 1958
15	1		Photography supplies, 1958
15	2-3		Raytheon and ultrasonic generator, 1955-1960
15	4		Silicones, 1959-1960
15	5		Sonic probe, 1961
15	6		Strain guage transformer,1958-1959
15	7		Tape recorders, 1958
15	8		Television equipment, n.d.
15	9		Test equipment, 1958
15	10		Timers, n.d.
15	11		Transducers, 1958-1960
15	12		Tubes and Electrons, 1957-1958
15	13-15		Ultra sound equipment, 1950-1954
15	16		Ultra violet equipment, 1958
15	17		Varian strip chart recorders, 1958
16	1-9		Miscellaneous product information, n.d.
		Catalogs, 1938-1965
17	1		American Opitcal Company, n.d.
17	2		American Cystoscope Makers, Inc., 1952
17	3		C. S. Mersick & Company, 1938
17	4		Cathode-Ray Oscilloscopes, 1963
17	5		Keuffel & Esser Company, 1944
18	1		Macalaster Bicknell Company, n.d.
18	2		Thomas Scientific Apparatus, 1965
19	1		Whitehead Metal products, 1958
19	2		William Dixon, Incorporated, 1960

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Series V: Meetings and Reports, 1942-1975
Box	Folder
		Conference Abstracts
20	1		Non-Newtonian fluids in science and engineering, 1958
20	2		European conference on microcirculation, 1962
20	3		American Heart Association: Circulation, 1968
20	4		VI conference European society for microcirculation, 1970
20	5	Programs 1947-1970
20	6	Bio-Engineering Subcommittee questionnaires, CUNY, n.d.
		Reports
20	7-9		Aviation medicine, 1942
21	1-7		Aviation medicine, 1942 (cont'd)
22	1-4		Aviation medicine, 1942 (cont'd)
22	5-6		Aviation medicine, 1943
23	1-4		Aviation medicine, study, 1946 (2 vols)
23	5-6		Anti-G Suits, Air material command, 1946
23	7		United Nations scientific committee, 1958
23	8		Federal Program in population research, 1969
23	9		Mount Sinai Medical Center (annual report), 1975

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Series VI: Subject Files, Active, 1925-1975
Box	Folder
		Individuals
24	1		Berkeley, Carl, 1961-1971
24	2-3		Baez, Silvio, 1961-1974
24	4		Bingham, E.C., 1942-1944
24	5		Bugliarello, George, 1962-1964
24	6		Brenner, Barry, 1971-1974
24	7		Burton, A C., 1950-1965
24	8-9		Corning, Peter, 1971
24	10		Hrubetz, Frank, 1942
24	11-12		Iberall, A.S., 1965-1972
25	1-2		Kase, N., 1973-1975
25	3		Kennard, David W., 1962-1971
25	4		Kenner, Tomas, 1963-1964
25	5		Malis, Leonard, 1960-1965
		Subjects
25	6-7		Abortifacients, 1969-1975
25	8		Abrasive jet for urinary stones, 1964-1970
25	9		Acute coronary, 1966-1970
25	10		Adhesives, 1958-1961
26	1		Air pollution, 1963-1973
26	2-3		AL--physiology seminar, 1955-1972
26	4		Anticoagulant, CAD, 1970
26	5		Anti-G suit, 1942-1947
26	6		Anti-G for physically handicapped, 1948-1951
26	7-8		Apocalypse I, 1969-1974
26	9-12		Apocalypse II, 1971-1975
27	1		Apocalypse, Rome, 1971-1975
27	2		Army, 1940-1944
27	3		AAF, 27th base unit, Randolph Field, 1944
27	4		Arteriolar resistance of kidney, 1940
27	5		Arteriosclerosis information, 1966-1972
27	6		Asia, 1968
27	7-8		Astronomy I, 1926-1927
27	9		Attempted analysis of Gibb's Needle, n.d.
27	10		Auscultation of micturition, 1962-1973
28	1-2		Ballistocardiograph, 1971-1975
28	3		Bibliography, 1969-1975
28	4		Bladder stone solution, 1942-1957
28	5		Blood flow, 1956-1971
28	6		Blood flow, electric charge transport, 1958-1961
28	7		Blood flow from volume pulse, 1941-1948
28	8		Bowen's disease, 1969
28	9		Branching angle vessels, 1948-1973
28	10-11		Branching exponent vessels, 1962-1967
29	1		British Air Ministry, 1945
29	2		British flying personnel, 1941-1942
29	3-5		Bubbles, 1942-1949
29	6		CAD--aspirin, 1974
29	7-8		Calculi and sound, 1956-60
			Camera equipment
30	1			1942-1945
30	2			Eastman Kodak, 1940-1945
30	3			Leitz, 1943-45
30	4		Cancer, breast--1974, 1974-75
30	5		Catheter, advancement, 1954-60
30	6		Catheter, anti-infection, 1974
30	7		Catheters, proposals, designs, data, 1957
30	8		Cavitron, 1960-1962
30	9		Central stop to reduce depth of field, 1970,
30	10		Ceramic, horn ultrasonic transducer, 1950-1953
30	11-12		Charts--osmotic pressure and viscosity of blood, 1932-1943
30	13		Chondroitin SA, 1972-1975
30	14		City university, colloquia, 1968
30	15		Clinical cystoscopy, 1961
30	16		Collateral circulation (WSS), 1964; 1967
30	17		Collaterals in Conrad's observations, 1971-1973
			Committee on Aviation Medicine (CAM)
30	18			bibliography, 1944
30	19			Evans memorial hospital, 1943
30	20			progress reports, 1945
30	21			Randolph Field, 1944
31	1			reports from the Mayo Clinic, 1943-1945
31	2			reports from Pierce Laboratory, 1943
31	3			reports from University of Virginia, 1942
31	4		1942-1943
31	5-6		1944-1946
31	7		Constant wall shearing stress, 1963
			Contracts
31	8		General Electric, 1943-1946
31	9		General Motors, 1941-1946
31	10		Coronary emergency, 1970-1972
31	11		Csapo reprints on endocrines for abortion, 1969-1970
31	12		Cystoscopy notes, 1959
31	13		Data on kidney flow, 1941
32	1		Detection of hematomas, 1948-1950
32	2		Development research, 1948-1960
32	3		Dietary Rx, 1956-1975
32	4		Differential manometer gas flow meter, 1947-1948
32	5		Dintenfass, 1963-1968
32	6		Dog pathological reports, 1957
32	7		Early aircraft centrifuge, 1942-1949
32	8		Effect of diol and nembutol anesthesia, 1940
32	9		Electroencephalography, 1946-1947
32	10		Electroshock for cardiac arrhythmias, 1964-1975
32	11		Ethylene oxide sterilization, 1957-1961
32	12		Etiology CAD, 1970-1975
32	13		Evidence for principle determining circulatory system morphogenesis, 1964
32	14		Filter variable band pass, 1961
32	15		Flocking, 1961
32	16		Formulae for afferent and efferent arteriolar, 1939-1941
32	17		Freon as blood substitute, Sep 1968
32	18		Galvanometers, 1939-1951
32	19		Gender preselection, 1975
32	20		Hanovia conductive coatings, 1960
33	1-2		Hematocrit-acute coronary, 1967-1975
33	3-5		Hemodynamics materials, 1968-1969
33	6		How is tension transmitted...?, 1956
33	7		Human trials (catheter insertion), 1947-1959
33	8		Hypertension graphs, 1938-1939
33	9		Hypertension, 1972-1973
33	10		Hysol, 1960-1961
33	11		Interstitial pressure, 1968-1974
33	12		Is insulin clearance a true measure, 1941
34	1-3		Kidney, modified formulas application, 1938-1942
34	4		Kidney, frog experiment, 1945
34	5		Light bridge, 1945
34	6		Lysing renal calculi, 1948-1958
34	7-8		Maneuver proposed for acute aero-otitis media relief, 1940-1941
35	1		Microcirculation, 1963
35	2		Notes on centrifuge testing
35	3		Origin of ballistocardigraph
35	4		Osmotic pressure, 1940-1943
35	5		Parapsychology
35	6		Pathologocal physiology
35	7-9		Periodoc changes in blood estrogen, 1939-1940
35	10		Photo integration, 1939-1946
35	11		Physical Diagnosis, 1931-1932
35	12		Plasmaphoresis/renal function in dogs, 1941-1945
35	13-14		Pressure recorder, 1943-1944
35	15-16		Prognosis CAD, 1970-1973
35	17		Progress reports on research, 1958-1959
35	18-19		Pursuitmeter applications in aviation medicine, 1941-1943
36	1		Relative changes in afferent and efferent arteriolar resistance, 1939-1940
36	2		Responses of microvessels to pressure, n.d.
36	3		Ribbon screens (metal), 1946
36	4		Rotation of automobile engine, 1914-1946
36	5-7		Sex determination, 1947
36	8-9		Sex predetermination, 1973-1975
36	10		Sex ratio in families, 1943-1945
37	1		Simulated kidney stones, 1958
37	2		Stimulation of auricular branch of vagus, 1940
37	3		Strain guage (subject)
37	4		Strain guage manometer, 1946
37	5		Studies on problem of acceleration--aviation medicine, 1944-1945
37	6-7		Ultrasonic, 1956-1961
37	8		Ultrasonic cutting of sclerotic tissue, 1959-1961
37	9-11		Ultrasonic drill, 1958-1959
37	12		Ultrasonic fragmentation of urinary calculi
38	1-2		Ultrasonic lithotresis, 1960-1961
38	3		Ultrasound biliary tract, 1950-1961
38	4-5		Ultrasound, final report, 1964-1967
38	6-7		Ultrasound, funding, 1950-1959
38	8		Ultrasound, Harris memo and response, 1953-1959
38	9		Ultrasound, instrumentation, 1953-1959
38	10		Ultrasound, knife (Lambert), 1956-1964
39	1-2		Ultrasound, literature, 1947-1957
39			USPHS contracts
	3-5			Ultrasound, USPHS research applications, 1955-1959
39	6			1960-1961
39				Contract correspondence
39	7				A-106, 1951-1956
39	8				A3838, 1957
39	9				A3838, 1958
39	10				A3838, 1959
39	11				A3838, 1960
39	12				A3838, 1961
39	13				A3838, 1962
40	1-2			Purchase orders, 1950-1955
40	3			Expenditures, 1962-1964
40	4			Summary report, 1962
40	5			Final report
40	6			RG2856, 1951-1954
40	7		U.S. Research, 1950-1951
40	8-10		Urology, P & S, 1961
40	11		Velocitiy measurement, 1944-1945
40	12		Waveform, VTVM model 520-A, n.d.
41	1		X-colorimeter, 1939-1946
41	2		Yale UniversityHospital Supplies, 1946-1957
41	3		Yale University research activities, 1946-1957
		Notes
41	4		1945-
41	5		1963-1975
41	6-8		n.d.

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Series VII: Subject Files, Inactive, 1939-1974
Box	Folder
42	1-2	Abortifiacients, 1968-1974
42	3	Acupuncture, 1972
42	4	Air embolism, n.d.
42	5	Air Force contracts, 1953
42	6	Air pollution control, 1939-1974
42	7-8	Anal fissure, 1973-1975
42	9	Animal experimentation, 1950
42	10-12	Anti-G suit, 1944-1947
43	1	Apparatus & laboratory methods, 1943-1948
43	2	Arterial dilitation, 1959-1971
43	3	Arterial vessels, 1961-1963
43	4-7	Arteriolar elasticity notes, 1945-1958
43	8-9	Arteriolar elasticity report 1949
44	1	Artery flow, 1964-1965
44	2	Athletics, 1947-1972
44	3	Attitude Theory, 1951-1953; 1965
44	4-5	Auricular fibrillation, 1968-1969
44	6	Automobile speed, 1946; 1960
44	7	Auto regulation, 1962-1963
44	8-9	Aviation medicine, 1942-1944
44	10	Biomedical engineering society, 1968-1974
44	11	Blood flow through cortical, 1949-1950
44	12	Bood flow, 1965
44	13	Blood rheology, 1959
45	1	Blood vessels, taper in, 1962
45	2	Blood vessels, electrical charges, 1962
45	3	Blood vessels, measurements on, 1963-1966
45	4	Brain temperature, 1948-1951
45	5	Business, competition in, 1955-1956
45	6	Cameras SLR, 1969-1972
45	7-8	Cervical cancer, 1967-1968
45	9-10	Cancer prognosis, 1952
45	11	Capillaries, molecular sieving in, 1950; 1964-1965
45	12	Capillary response, 1970
45	13	Carcinogenesis from X-ray in children, 1958
45	14	Cardiac work efficiency, 1962
45	15	Caries prevention, 1948
46	1	Cholesterol, noise effect on, 1970-1972
46	2	Closing pressure, 1958-1962
46	3-4	Concussion correspondence, 1948-1952
46	5-6	Concussion notes, 1951-1957
46	7	Concussion progress report, 1952-1953
46	8-9	Concussion final report, 1954
46	10-11	Contraceptives female, 1950-1954; 1958
47	1	Correlation squaring constant current theory, 1953-1954
47	2	Correlation, 1953
47	3	Curing of Pork, 1951
47	4-5	Dendrites, 1965
47	6-7	Sub-Diaphragmatic, 1947-1949
47	8	Drowning diving reflex, 1964-1971
47	9	Drug addiction, 1950
47	10	Electrical circuits, 1946
47	11	Electrical skin resistance, 1945-1946
48	1	Electro-Magnetic flowmeter, 1950
48	2	Hydrogen for rapid equilibration, 1964
48	3	Enduine transplants, 1957-1960
48	4	Facsimile systems, 1950
48	5-6	Fertility bank, 1956-1958
48	7	Glomerular filtration equilibrium, 1950
48	8	Gomez, Domingo M., 1950-1951
48	9	Head injuries, 1943-1953
48	10	Heart size, 1964
48	11-12	Hemodilution, 1940-1948
48	12-13	Hemodynamics renal, 1949
48	14	Heyman's carotid sinus theory, 1968
48	15-16	Hindrance measurement, 1958-1960
49	1	Industrial medicine, 1940-1969
49	2	Industry, 1944-1948
49	3-4	Insect venom, 1964-1965
49	5-6	Intracellular waterchanges, 1955-1956
49	7	Insulin in body fluids, 1951
49	8	Iron-lung, 1964
49	9	Ironing process, 1946
49	10	Josiah Macy Foundation progress report, 1959
49	11	Journal of Clinical Investigation, 1962
49	12	Kidney circulation, 1956-1966
50	1	Kymograph, Ray, (Cathode), 1955
50	2	Laplace's equational blood flow, 1946
50	3	Lecture material, 1949-1954
50	4	Leg lengthening, 1959-1964
50	5	Lenses, 1952-1953
50	6	Limb blood flow, 1965
50	7	Lithotresis, 1953-1961
50	8	Longevitiy, 1966
50	9	Lumper size, 1943-1966
50	10	Methemoglobinemia, 1969
50	11	Micro arteries, 1961-1963
51	1	Micro arterial vessels, 1963-1968
51	2-3	Micro flowmeter, 1964-1965
51	4	Microvessels, 1959
51	5	Millivoltmeters, 1946-1947
51	6	Needles, Cooling & Heating, 1961-1962
51	7	Nephorotoxic nephritis, 1949
51	8	Neuro-Humoral circulation, 1969
51	9	Olfaction by dogs, 1972
51	10	Olfactory sense analysis, 1944-1948
51	11	Oscillograph, 1946-1949
51	12	Osmotic pressure, 1963
51	13	Overpopulation, 1950-1953
51	14	Pancreatic disease, 1954-1961
51	15	Placenta, 1951-1954
51	16	Pneumatic lever, 1955-1961
51	17	Poisseuille's Law, 1941
51	18	Printing patent, 1946-1947
52	1	Pupilary system, 1963-1965
52	2	Pupillary light reflex system, 1966
52	3	Radioautography, 1951-1952
52	4	Radiotherapy, 1968
52	5	Rand Corporation, 1959-1965
52	6	Reed EEG analyzers, 1954
52	7	Renal stones, 1964-1965
52	8	Renal failure, 1942
52	9	Renal physiology, 1942-1943
52	10-11	Renal pulsation and pressure, 1948-1950
52	12	Resevoir, 1966
52	13	Resistance pressure, 1963-1966
52	14	Respirator (collapsible), 1940-1952
52	15	Respirator pressure, 1947-1948
52	16	Repirator publicity, 1948; 1949
52	17	Respirator Rockwell and Bartholow, 1949
52	18	Respirator sub-diaphragmatic, 1948
52	19	Respiration mechanics, 1955-1959
52	20	Rheology, 1951-1958
53	1	Sarcolemma, 1955-1958
53	2	Sarcolemma tension transmission, 1965-1966
53	3	Schizophrenia, 1940-1943
53	4	Shock experiments, 1940
53	5	Stethoscope, 1951; 1972
53	6	Strain gauge, 1957-1959
53	7	Surface temperature, 1967
53	8	Timing devices, 1968-1972
53	9	Tissue growth, 1960
53	10	Tissue pressure measurement, 1960
53	11	Stress Intrees, 1965
53	12	Tuning fork amplitude and frequency, 1946
53	13	Ultrasonics lithotresis, 1963-1973
53	14	Ultrasonic Therpeutic Fragmentation of Calculi, 1955-1965
53	15	Ultrasound biological effects, 1950-1967
53	16	Ultrasound generation, 1951-1956
53	17	Ultrasound meophmogenesis, 1950-1951
54	1	Ultrasound metallurgy, 1956-1958
54	2	Ultrasound, surface movement, 1956
54	3	Ultrasound pathology, 1958-1959
54	4	Ultrasound in urology, 1965-1967
54	5	Urolithiasis, 1950-1951
54	6	Vascular muscle, 1961-1962
54	7	Vascular organization principles, 1962-1965
54	8	Vascularization in sheets and blocks of tissue, 1962-1963
54	9	Vasculitis transient, 1964-1966
54	10	Vasomotor tone-talk, 1954
54	11	Vessels (Poc LOG R), 1962-1967
54	12	Vessels (wall shearing in single vessels), 1964-1967
54	13	Vibration control, 1955; 1966
54	14	Viscometer, 1949
54	15	Viscosity, 1967
55	1	Visual acuity, 1972-1973
55	2	Voltmeter patent, 1947-1951
55	3	Weightlessness, 1961
55	4	Yale University, Aeromedical Research Unit, 1951-1953
55	5	Yale University, Physiology Staff Meetings, 1947-1954
55	6-13	Miscellaneous, handwritten notes

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Series VIII: Presentations, 1953-1975
Box	Folder
56	1-2	Urolithesis notes, 1953-1954
56	3	Urinary lithotrests, Yale University, notes, 1955
56	4	Ultrasonic lithotresis in the ureter (work papers), 1956
56	5	Ultrasonic lithotresis in the ureter, final
		Presentation, May 29, 1956
56	6-7	Urinary Calculi, Yale University, working paper, n.d.
56	8	Gender Preselection, Yale University, 1975

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Series IX: Publications, 1931-1975
Box	Folder
		Lamport Manuscripts
57	1		Formulae for afferent and efferent, 1941
57	2		Formulae for afferent and efferent arteriolar, 1941
57	3		Relative changes in afferent and efferent, 1941
57	4		Renal failure in crush injury, 1942
57	5-7		Test work on Pneumatic lever suit, 1945
57	8		The Pneumatic lever suit, 1947
57	9		Osmotic pressure and viscosity of blood, n.d.
57	10		Current research, n.d.
57	11		The medical application of ultrasound, n.d.
57	12		Schizophrenia and other mental illnesses, n.d.
57	13		Air-embolism in man, n.d.
57	14		Quantitative measurement of afferent and efferent, n.d.
58		Index cards, 1935-1951
		Lamport reprints
59	1		1940-1941
				Periodic changes in blood estrogen, 1940
				Formulae for afferent and efferent arteriorlar resistance in the human kidney, 1941
				Maneuver for the relief of acute aero-otitis media, 1941
				Origin of the ballistocardiograph, The, 1941
				Relative changes in afferent and efferent arteriolar resistance in the normal kidney,1941
59	2		1942-1943
				Charts for osmotic pessure of blood, 1942
				Effects on renal resistance to blood flow of renin, angiotonin, pitressin and atropine, 1942
				Improvements in calculation of renal resistance, 1943
				Increase of the renal filtration fraction after plasmapheresis, 1943
				Pursuitmeter with an application in aviation medicine, 1943
59	3		1945
				Kidney, 1945
				Statistically valid tests of drugs and other factors affecting the resistance of mice to acceleration, 1945
59	4		1946
				Appraisal of rapid killing power of high velocity bullets, 1946
				Paper screen signaling missible passage, 1946
				Portable milivoltmeter, A, 1946
				Relationship between the military loss resulting from a casualty and the days lost from active duty, 1946
				Safety and the direction of rotation of the automobile, 1946
59	5		1947-1953
				Arteriolar elasticity, 1947
				Physiology of hearing, 1947
				Design of a collapsible, lightweight "iron lung" respirator, 1948
				Law relating blood flow to perfusion pressure, 1949
				Factors regulating blood pressure, 1949
				Fragmentation of biliary calculi, 1950
				Intrinsic independence of blood flow through cortical and juxtamedullary glomeruli, 1950
				Diffusion of oxygen across the sheep's placenta, 1953
59	6		1954-1955
				Indirect spinal cord injuries due to gunshot wounds, 1954
				Transport of oxygen in the sheep's placenta, 1954
				Critical appraisal of methods for disruption and extraction of urinary calculi, 1955
				Orientation of helical collagen fibers in sarcolemma, 1955
59	7		1956-1959
				How is tension transmitted from striated muscle fiber, 1956
				Some aspects of the basal tone of the blood vessels, 1956
				Ultrasonic lithotresis in the ureter, 1956
				Average distribution of light flux, 1958
				Pressure effects and critical closure in single microscopic vessels,1959
				Strain gauge measurement of output of magnetostrictive ultrasonic transducer, 1959
59	8		1962
				Physical properties of small arterial vessels, 1962
				Renal circulation, 1962
				Response to pressure of microarterial vessels in the live rat, 1962
59	9		1963-1966
				Doctors and fear of the computer, 1963
				Vascularization compared in thin sheets, 1964
				Flowmeter design for continuous immediate measurement of red cell, 1965
				Optical activity, 1965
				Water proposals for New York, 1966
		Textbooks, 1941-1954
60	1		Howell's Correspondence, 1944-1954
60	2-5		Howell's Textbook on Physiology, Notes for textbook, 1941-1945
60	6-9		Annual review of physiology submissions, 1944
60	10		Howell's Textbook on Physiology, Chapter 30--Hemodynamics, 1954

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Series X: Reprints of Others, 1931-1975
Box	Folder
61	1-6	1931-1937
62	1-6	1938-1941
63	1-6	1944-1947
64	1-6	1949-1953
65	1-8	1954-1958
66	1-6	1959-1963
67	1-8	1965-1975
		Books and Pamphlets, 1893-1969
68	1-4		Books, foreign, 1893-1953
68	5		Pamphlets, 1948-69

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Series XI: Newspaper Clippings and Articles, 1936-1976
Box	Folder
69	1-7	News clippings, 1950-1957; 1967-1976
		Magazine Articles
69	8		1936-1959
69	9		1960-1968
69	10		1970-1975

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Series XII: Photographs and Slides, 1944-1965
Box	Folder
70	1	Negatives, 1956
70	2	Graph negatives and photos, n.d.
70	3	Harold Lamport, n.d.
70	4	Ureter drill, n.d.
70	5	Beth Israel Hospital equipment,slides, n.d.
71	1-5	Wright Field, 1944
71	6-20	Velocity measurement, wound ballistics, 1945
71	21-29	Lamport, Harold with PL suit, 1945
71	30-37	Arteriolar elasticity, 1947
71	38-40	Hemodynamics, 1948
71	41-44	Glass slides, 1949
71	45-49	Tension transmission in muscle fiber, 1956
71	50-67	Ultrasonic lithoretsis in ureter, 1956
71	68-100	Miscellaneous slides, microarterial vessels, 1961-1962
72	1-11	Negatives, "Physical properties of small blood vessels", 1962
72	12-20	Vascularization compared...3rd European micro vessels conference, 1962
72	21-24	Physiology-Yale U., "Is there a low governing size and branching of blood vessels?", 1963
72	25-31	Yale U., audio-vascular study unit, 1963
72	32-54	Hemodynamic laws, Einstein cardiovascular research seminar, 1965
72	55-61	Micro flowmeter, 1965
72	62-72	Renal Resistance research, n.d.
73	1-109	Glass slides on research (109 slides), n.d.

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Series XIII: Artifacts
Box
75		Branson ultrasonic cone tips with set screws, 1963
75		Electro physical electrocardiograph power cord
75		Slide rules (2)
76		Pudenal nerves negatives and laboratory slides, n.d.
77		Ultrasonics project (Yale University, New York), metal instruments
78		Glass orifice flow meter

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Related Materials/Collections

Additional archival materials, models, and schematic drawings of Lamport's antigravity suit are located at the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum (Washington, D.C.)

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Finding Aid to the Harold Lamport Papers, 1925-1975

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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Series I: Personal and Biographical, 1942-1979

Series II: Correspondence, 1937-1975

Series III: Lab Notebooks, 1925-1960

Series IV: Laboratory Materials and Supplies

Series V: Meetings and Reports, 1942-1975

Series VI: Subject Files, Active, 1925-1975

Series VII: Subject Files, Inactive, 1939-1974

Series VIII: Presentations, 1953-1975

Series IX: Publications, 1931-1975

Series X: Reprints of Others, 1931-1975

Series XI: Newspaper Clippings and Articles, 1936-1976

Series XII: Photographs and Slides, 1944-1965

Series XIII: Artifacts