Pierce, John R. (John Robinson), 1910-2002
John Robinson Pierce papers, 1936-1976.
Contains an oral history (1967); tape recordings and talks on such subjects as orbital radio relay, Echo project, satellite communications, and space travel; a paper by Pierce on the telephone and society in the past 100 years (presented in 1976 at a convocation on communications); and biographical material including photographs, 1957-1970.
Electrical engineer, musical acoustics.
Space flight
Artificial satellites in communication.
Telephone -- Social aspects.
OSCAR (Artificial satellite)
Project Echo
Radio relay system.
Oral histories. aat
Interviews. aat
Sound recordings lcgft
Biography files. aat aat
Photographs. aat
AIP-ICOS
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