Oral history interview with Laurence Batchelder, 1989 May 1 and November 12.

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Oral history interview with Laurence Batchelder, 1989 May 1 and November 12.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80225712

Interview includes discussion of the history of underwater sound with reference to the Submarine Signal Company, the history of the Acoustical Society of America, Batchelder's education, and his involvement with the U.S. Navy Technical Mission to Germany (World War II).

Transcript: 19 pp.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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