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The Radar Collection [Blom] consists of approximately 9 cubic feet of maintenance guides for radar systems, wartime equipment catalogs and guides, periodicals, photographs and audio/visual materials.
Jacob Michael Blom (1944--2023) was born in Amsterdam and emigrated to the United States in 1952. From an early age, Blom had a keen interest in science and attended the Neward College of Engineering. In 1966, he graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering. According to his family, he spent countless happy hours in his 3,500 square foot workshop, which was filled with radar sets, navigation equipment, countermeasures equipment, radar test equipment, many spare parts and over a thousand original equipment manuals and other reference materials which he began collecting in 1960. He was also a Senior Vice President of the Mitre Corporation. Mr. Blom passed away in 2023.
NASM.2024.0005
1940s-2000s
Heather Ramos, Gift, 2023, NASM.2024.0005
8.77 Cubic feet (24 containers (22 letter boxes, 2 flat boxes))
National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection conists of approximately 9 cubic feet consists of Western Electric maintenance guides for radar systems, wartime equipment catalogs and guides, periodicals, photographs and audio/visual materials.
This collection is organized into five series according to material type: Series 1: Technical Manuals, Handbooks and Catalogs, 1942-1995 Series 2: Other Publications and Miscellaneous, 1940-2006 Series 3: Photographs and Negatives, 1940s, 1950s and undated Series 4: Oversize, 1945 Series 5: Audiovisual, undated
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Radar Collection [Blom], Acc. NASM.2024.0005, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.
Aeronautics
Radar in aeronautics
Radar
United States Navy -- 20th century
Collection descriptions
Archival materials