Clark Special Collections

Clark Special Collections has significant holdings related to the history of science, technology, engineering, and math. Our collections contain rare books by early scientific thinkers, including Galileo, Newton, Boyle, Euler, Faraday, Lavoisier, Berzelius, Lovelace, and many others. Our manuscript collections boast a wide selection of personal papers on the development of aviation, missile technology, space flight, civil engineering, medicine, and other themes. Chief among these are the papers of Lord Rayleigh, the Nobel prize-winning physicist responsible for the discovery of the gas Argon, among many other notable achievements. Our collection of 1500+ transcribed oral histories contains many relevant STEM interviews, including selections by Theodore von Kármán, Brig Gen Paul Tibbetts, astronaut Susan Helms, and others. 

The list of resources below provides just a selection of the materials available in Special Collections. For additional assistance, please contact us. Staff are excited to help cadets and faculty from STEM disciplines who might not traditionally use an archive to access our records on the history of science.

Image note: Excerpt from Lord Rayleigh's experimental notebooks.