Reminiscences of Preston R. Bassett, 1980

Biographical Note

Inventor, industrialist

Scope and Contents

Laboratory work for Sperry Gyroscope Company, Brooklyn, 1915-1917; improved lighting for early motion picture industry, development of airplane beacons, experiments in all-weather flying; airplane design and construction; Hindenberg accident, 1937; impressions of many famous pilots

Subjects

• Aeronautics.
• Air pilots.
• Bassett, Preston R. (Preston Rogers), 1892-1992--Interviews.
• Cinematography--Lighting.
• Interviews.
• Inventors--Interviews.
• Jessup, Frederick Peterson, 1920-2005, interviewer.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Sperry Gyroscope Company.

Access Conditions

Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1984