LC control no. | n 2011077530 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Bown, Ralph, 1891-1971 |
Birth date | 1891-02-22 |
Death date | 1971-07-29 |
Found in | Library of Congress Manuscript Division for the Melville Eastham papers, 1908-73 (Ralph Bown; resided in Millburn, N.J.; pioneer in radio) WWW wikipedia.com, viewed Nov. 13, 2015 (Ralph Bown; born Feb. 22, 1891 in Fairport, N.Y.; died July 29, 1971 in Millburn, N.J.; pioneer in radio; electrical engineer; taught physics at Cornell Univ.; captain in the U.S. Army Signal Corps in World War I; after war joined the American Telephone and Telegraph Company research department, which in 1934 became Bell Laboratories; division member and consultant of the National Defense Research Committee; became research director at Bell Labs) |