Coltman, John Wesley, 1915-2010
John W. Coltman archive, 1959-2007.
The papers relate primarily to Dr. Coltman's work in musical acoustics, especially the flute. Included are published papers, reports prepared as papers, reviews, correspondence, laboratory notebook material, and computer programs. The correspondence largely consists of inquiries resulting from publications, together with replies, many of which have some technical content.
John W. Coltman (1915-2010), physicist and research executive at Westinghouse Electric Corporation, devoted much of his spare time to the study of the flute in its musical, historical and acoustical aspects. His research in musical acoustics has contributed significantly to what is known today about the behavior of the flute and organ pipes. In his professional career Dr. Coltman received many honors for his invention and development of the x-ray image amplifier, now universally used in medical fluoroscopy. He was a member of the National Academy of Engineering, holds 22 patents and published some 70 technical papers.
Coltman, John Wesley, 1915-2010.
Music -- Acoustics and physics.
Flute -- Acoustics.
AIP-ICOS
Stanford University. Music Library and Archive of Recorded Sound. Stanford, CA 94305, USA