Oral history interview with Humboldt Walter Leverenz, 1979 July 10.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Oral history interview with Humboldt Walter Leverenz, 1979 July 10.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78553446

Research career, and important contributions to TV and fluorescent lighting and subsequent transition to management which culminated in a stint as Director of Research for the RCA Laboratories in Princeton. Problems he had to deal with are described, including tension over the issue of how much undirected research to permit. The research atmosphere during the Depression and World War II is recalled, along with insights into Vladimir Zworykin, David Sarnoff, Irving Langmuir, and William Coolidge. Also prominently mentioned are: Booz Allen, W. R. G. Baker, John Bardeen, George H. Brown, Louis Clement, B. R. Cummings, Elmer Engstrom, Douglas H. Ewing, Phine Farnsworth, Harold Greig, James Hillier, Leslie Jesty, Loren F. Jones, Ray Kell, Mervin J. Kelly, George Langley, Nils Lindenblad, Nevill Francis Mott, Richardson Neeve, Wayne B. Nottingham, Frederick Seitz, William Shockley, Willis Whitney, Irving Wolff; Bell Telephone Laboratories, General Electric Co., Harvard University, Illinois Institute of Technology, Journal of Applied Physics, Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, Marconi Co., Massachusetts Institute of Technology Radiation Laboratory, Paso Robles High School, Siemens Co., Stanford University, United States Patent Office, Victor Talking Machine Co., and Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company.

Sound recordings: 5 sound cassettes (ca. 4.5 hrs), 1 session.Transcript: 76 p.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 8216742

Related Entities

There are 18 Entities related to this resource.

Harvard University

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w64n9x97 (person)

Harvard College was founded by a vote of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts on October 28, 1636 that allocated “400£ towards a schoale or colledge.” Subsequent legislative acts established the Board of Overseers, but it was the Charter of 1650 that created the Harvard Corporation as the College's primary governing board and defined its composition and authority. The College Charter became a contentious target for College officials, the Massachusetts Governor and General C...

Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6wf4rhq (corporateBody)

Industrialist and inventor of the compressed air brake George Westinghouse incorporated the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company in 1891. With its giant factory located in East Pittsburgh, Pa., the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company soon became the Edison General Electric Company's main rival in the contest to provide electricity to the United States. While Edison General Electric pioneered the generation and distribution of direct current (DC) electricity, Westinghou...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Radiation Laboratory

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6jv0g06 (corporateBody)

Division 1 Business Division 2 Buildings and Maintenance Division 3 Personnel and Shops Division 4 Research Division 5 Transmitter Components ...

Booz Allen Hamilton.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6cv9xk2 (corporateBody)

Booz Allen Hamilton is an American public consulting firm. It was founded by Edwin G. Booz in 1914. Edwin Booz earned a bachelor's degree in economics and a master's degree in psychology at Northwestern University. From the guide to the Booz-Allen, Hamilton Top Organization Survey, 1969, (Northwestern University Archives) ...

Shockley, William, 1910-1989

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6df6stk (person)

Died 1989. From the description of Oral history interview with William Shockley, 1974 September 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78821004 American physicist. From the description of William Shockley miscellaneous papers, 1980. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754871662 Professor of engineering at Stanford (1958-1975; emeritus 1975- ). Shockley was co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics, 1956. From the description of William Shockley paper...

Kelly, Mervin Joe

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6cz3h6x (person)

Langmuir, Irving, 1881-1957

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6gt5qp0 (person)

Research chemist and physicist, General Electric Co. from 1909. Nobel Prize for Chemistry, 1932. From the description of Pathological science [sound recording] : an address to General Electric's Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory Colloquium; 1953 December 18. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83715356 Chemist. From the description of Papers of Irving Langmuir, 1871-1957. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79449037 Biographical Note ...

Radio corporation of America

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w61g4fxz (corporateBody)

Victor Talking Machine Company

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6jm63st (corporateBody)

Consolidated Talking Machine Company founded ca. 1900; in 1901 incorporated as Victor Talking Machine Company; reorganized as Radio-Victor Corporation of America, a subsidiary of Radio Corporation of America; in 1930 name changed to RCA-Victor Company; producers of gramophones, radios, and sound recordings; headquartered in Camden, N.J. From the description of Artists' correspondence, 1905-1929. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70945480 Incorporated 1901. From the ...

Stanford university

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w60w243j (corporateBody)

Stanford entered into a research project with the National Iranian Radio and Television agency in 1974 to study and recommend a satellite-based communication system for Iran and how to utilize it for Iran's educational radio and television. From the description of Stanford NIRT project records, 1974-1978. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122510722 The Leland Stanford Junior University was established in 1885 in memory of Leland Stanford Jr., the only child of Senator and Mrs. ...

Marconi Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6nd1nx6 (corporateBody)

Leverenz, Humboldt W.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6zc8bss (person)

Coolidge, William David, 1873-1975

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6q52rg6 (person)

William David Coolidge is well known for his contributions to X-ray machines and his work with tungsten filaments. He was the director of the General Electric Research Laboratory (1932-1940). Born on Oct. 23, 1873 in Boston MA, he obtained BS in Electrical Engineering, from MIT in 1896 and a PhD in Physics from the University of Leipzig in Germany in 1899. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences....

Seitz, Frederick, 1911-2008

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w61v5g81 (person)

Physicist. On the physics faculty at University of Rochester, 1935-1937; research physicist, General Electric Company, 1937-1939; on the physics faculty at University of Pennsylvania, 1939-1942; Carnegie Institute of Technology, 1942-1949; and University of Illinois, 1949-1965; president, National Academy of Sciences, 1962-1969; president, Rockefeller University, 1968-1978. From the description of Summary of 1987 conference: The Origins of Solid State Physics in Italy: 1945-1960, 198...

Mott, N. F. (Nevill Francis), Sir, 1905-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6gh9qr9 (person)

Died in 1996. From the description of Oral history interview with Sir Nevill Francis Mott, 1981 January 15. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82798893 From the description of Physics Department Records. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80225685 From the description of Oral history interview with Sir Nevill Francis Mott, 1963 May 13. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81418105 Major affiliations include: University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, UK, 1930-1933, 195...

Lawrence Radiation Laboratory

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6711wz1 (corporateBody)

Siemens & Halske

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6993449 (corporateBody)

Wolff, Michael Fred,

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6t74mhc (person)