History of traveling wave tubes [videorecording] / Taped at Hughes Aircraft Co., Canoga Park, CA ; 1983 April 7.

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History of traveling wave tubes [videorecording] / Taped at Hughes Aircraft Co., Canoga Park, CA ; 1983 April 7.

A lecture given at Hughes Aircraft Company regarding the development of the traveling wave tube at Bell Telephone Laboratories during the 1940s. Cutler elaborates on the contributions of Rudy Kompfner and J. R. Pierce as well as his own work on the development of circuits for the tubes and the use of Brillouin flow in focusing the beam. The lecture is supported by slides and viewgraphs of drawings and diagrams from the laboratory notebooks of Kompfner, Pierce, and Cutler.

1 videocassette (61 min.) : sd., col. ; 3/4 in.

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Bell Telephone Laboratories, inc.

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Pierce, John R. (John Robinson), 1910-2002

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Electrical engineer, musical acoustics. From the description of Papers. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84491512 From the description of Papers, 1936-1976. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83715362 John R. Pierce earned all three of his degrees at the California Institute of Technology: B.S. in 1933, M.S. in 1934, and Ph.D. in 1936. He worked at Bell Telephone Laboratories from 1936 to 1971, where his work included electronic tubes, microwave communications, and psycho...

Cutler, Cassius Chapin, 1914-

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Physicist and educator. Director, electronic and computer systems research, Bell Telephone Laboratories, 1937-1978; professor of applied science, Stanford University from 1979. From the description of History of traveling wave tubes [videorecording] / Taped at Hughes Aircraft Co., Canoga Park, CA ; 1983 April 7. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84461656 ...

Hughes Aircraft Company

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