(SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING) Papers of Max Mason relating to an

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(SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING.) Papers of Max Mason relating to anti-submarine technology. 8 folders (0.2 linear feet), including: 17 letters to and from Mason; 41-page typescript illustrated report titled "Types of Multiple Unit Receivers"; an offprint of his 1921 article "Submarine Detection by Multiple Unit Hydrophones"; 47 pages of related typescript memoranda and partial reports; 70 pages of manuscript notes; 63 photographs and illustrations, many of them numbered for use in an unidentified report; 11 pages of expense accounts from a 1918 trip to Europe; 2 tuition invoices from Germany, 1909-10; and a humorous 1918 poem which begins "This valiant bunch of half-breed Navy men / Each one a nut, or bug, or batty prof." Vp, 1909-21

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Charles Max Mason (1877-1961) was a mathematician who spent most of his career at the University of Wisconsin; he also served as president of the University of Chicago. He was best known for his work for the Nation Research Council during World War One, where he produced a submarine detection device that was in regular use by destroyers by the summer of 1918, a precursor to the sonar devices of the 1940s. These papers are largely related to Mason's submarine efforts, undertaken at the Naval Experimental Station in New London, CT.