The Hart Nautical Gallery is a gallery in the MIT Museum at Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Cambridge, Massachusetts , United States. The collections include construction drawings of the Doris sailing yacht, designer William Hand ’s surviving drawings, and material relating to shipbuilder Jacob Aaron Westervelt .
5-603: The original Francis Russell Hart Nautical Museum was established in 1922 at MIT as part of the Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering. It was incorporated into the MIT Museum in 1982. William A. Baker , a maritime historian, was curator of the museum from 1963 until his death in 1981. 42°21′30.74″N 71°05′35.34″W / 42.3585389°N 71.0931500°W / 42.3585389; -71.0931500 This Massachusetts museum–related article
10-671: A member of the editorial advisory board of the American Neptune , 1952–1981; Mystic Seaport , 1973–1981. He was a Fellow and trustee of the Pilgrim Society , Plimoth Plantation , and a member of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers , of which he was co-founder of the New England section in 1943 and served as secretary-treasurer, 1943–44, and chairman in 1957–58. He also served as secretary-treasurer of
15-635: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . William A. Baker William Avery Baker (born in New Britain, Connecticut on 21 October 1911 – died 9 September 1981) was a distinguished naval architect of replica historic ships and a maritime historian, who was curator of the Francis Russell Hart Nautical Museum at Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1963–1981. The son of William Elisha Baker and his wife Margaret MacDonald Sanderson, William A. Baker
20-496: The states of California and Massachusetts . Baker served with them until 1963, when he became curator of the Francis Russell Hart Nautical Museum and part time lecturer in the MIT Department of Ocean Engineering. He was the compiler of plans and specifications for a number of historic Ship replicas , including Gjoa in 1948, Mayflower II in 1957, Adventure in 1970, and Maryland Dove in 1978. He served as
25-580: Was educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , where he earned an S.B. degree in 1934 in the Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering with a thesis on "Development of Catamaran Hulls" supervised by George Davis. On 2 May 1936, he married Ruth Stuart. In 1934, Baker joined the shipbuilding division of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation and became a registered professional engineer in
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