Scrapbook, 1902-1953.

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Scrapbook, 1902-1953.

Scrapbook containing material related to the development of the wireless radio in the United States. Includes photostats of correspondence (1900-1902) with Edwin Hutchinson Smythe, photostats of Smythe's research notebooks, photographs of the de Forest-Smythe-Freeman wireless system, clippings, and a trypescript introduction by Lloyd Espenshied, co-worker of Smythe at Bell Telephone Laboratories. The scrapbook was assembled by Lloyd Espenchied.

1 v. (244 p.) ; 38 cm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7651163

University of Chicago Library

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Espenschied, Lloyd, 1889-

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Lloyd Espenschied (1889-) was born in St. Louis, Missouri and in 1909 graduated from the Pratt Institute in electrical engineering. During 1909-1910 he was on the staff of the Telefunken Wireless Telegraph Company. From 1910 to 1934 he worked for American Telephone and Telegraph Company in various capacities; and from 1934 to 1937 he directed high-frequency transmission development for the Bell Telephone Laboratories. Espenschied's chief interests seem to have been in the area of wide-band and c...

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