Last Friday was an exciting day for us here at the Winkler Center because I finished the EAD encoding for the Henry J. Heimlich Archival Collection. This means that the finding aid, which went live this morning, can now be searched online and that the collection is open to researchers. The finding aid is, as its name would imply, a tool that researchers can use to find what they are looking for. In this case, it is a list of every series, sub-series and folder in the collection. We welcome you to come in and have a look at this valuable addition to our collections!
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Dr. H. J. Heimlich Project: Working with Neil Armstrong
Neil Armstrong’s recent death has brought him and his work back into the spotlight once again. Much attention is rightfully paid to his great accomplishments as an astronaut, especially the Apollo program and his walk on the moon. He has been called an “American Hero” more times than anyone count but despite all of that grandeur, in his own mind Armstrong remained “…a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer, born under the second law of thermodynamics, steeped in steam tables, in love with free-body diagrams, transformed by Laplace and propelled by compressible flow”. 1
The HARP Group: Neil Armstrong, George Rieveschl, Henry Heimlich and Edward Patrick.
Photo courtesy of Kevin Grace
Dr. H. J. Heimlich Project: Steak Surprise
Earlier this year Cincinnati Reds rookie Todd Frazier received much media attention for a heroic save but all of the buzz had really nothing to do with baseball. Frazier was eating at a restaurant in Pittsburgh when another patron began to choke on a piece of steak. Other patrons attempted the Heimlich maneuver unsuccessfully when Frazier stepped in and, with two quick squeezes, dislodged the meat from the man’s throat.
Dr. H. J. Heimlich Project: Rescue on the Top of the World
You may know from previous press releases that in 2011 the Winkler Center for the History of the Health Professions received the papers of Dr. Henry J. Heimlich, best known for his development of the Heimlich maneuver. In January of 2012 we began the year long project of processing the collection so that they can be made available to researchers. I am now about five months into the project and have done an initial inventory of approximately 80% of the collection as I’ve rehoused the items in archival folders and boxes. As I’ve gone through the material, more than a few items have caught my interest and I would like to share a few with you here in this blog space.