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Title: Joseph A. Knight Collection
Dates: 1906-1939
Collection Number: 2011-47
Creator/Collector:
Knight, Joseph A.
Extent: .5 linear feet
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Repository:
History San Jose Research Library
San Jose, California 95112
Abstract: Printed ephemera, including stock certificates, reprints, periodicals, and news clippings, regarding Federal Telegraph Company
and other electronics ventures, collected by Joseph A. Knight.
Language of Material: English
The collection is open to researchers by appointment with the Curator of Library and Archives.
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[Identification of item]. Joseph A. Knight Collection. Collection Number: 2011-47. History San Jose Research Library
Gift to History San Jose in 2011.
Scope and Content of Collection
Printed ephemera, including stock certificates, reprints, periodicals, and news clippings, regarding Federal Telegraph Company
and other electronics ventures, collected by Joseph A. Knight. Of note are stock certificates from the American Telegraphone
Company and the American De Forest Wireless Telegraph Company; Federal Telegraph Company arc radio transmitter specifications;
and material on the rhumbatron and klystron research of Russell Varian and W. W. Hansen, originally compiled by R. D. Washburne,
editor of Radio Craft magazine.
Radio--History
Telegraph, Wireless
Radio--Transmitters and transmission
De Forest, Lee, 1873-1961
Poulsen, Valdemar
Varian, Russell Harrison, 1898-1959
Elwell, C. F. (Cyril Frank), 1884-1963
Federal Telegraph Company
Poulsen Wireless Telephone and Telegraph Company
American De Forest Wireless Telegraph Company
American Telegraphone Company
stock certificates
periodicals
technical reports