Contributors to this Issue 



Thomas Shaw, S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 

 1905; American Telephone and Telegraph Company, Engineering 

 Department, 1905-1919; Department of Development and Research, 

 1919 — . Mr. Shaw's major activities have been devoted to develop- 

 ment problems in loading telephone circuits, including the loading 

 apparatus. 



W. FoNDiLLER, B.S., College of the City of New York, 1903; E.E., 

 Columbia University, 1909; M.A., 1913; Engineering Department, 

 Western Electric Company, 1909-25; Bell Telephone Laboratories, 

 1925 — . Mr. Fondiller is in charge of the General Development 

 Laboratory and has been engaged in the design of loading coils and 

 electric filters, and directing studies of the properties of materials and 

 analysis of manual and machine switching apparatus design. 



H. R. Friis, E.E., Royal Technical College in Copenhagen, 1916; 

 Columbia University, 1919-20; Research Department, Western 

 Electric Company, 1920-24; Bell Telephone Laboratories, 1925 — . 

 Mr. Friis' work has been largely in connection with radio reception 

 methods and measurements. He has published papers on vacuum 

 tubes as generators, radio transmission measurements and static 

 interference. 



Ronald M. Foster, S.B., Harvard, 1917; American Telephone 

 and Telegraph Company, Engineering Department, 1917-19; Depart- 

 ment of Development and Research, 1919 — . 



Walter A. Shewhart, A.B., University of Illinois, 1913; A.M., 

 1914; Ph.D., University of California, 1917; Engineering Department, 

 Western Electric Company, 1918-24; Bell Telephone Laboratories, 

 Inc., 1925 — . Mr. Shewhart has been engaged in the study of the 

 relationship between the microphonic and physicochemical properties 

 of carbon. 



Herbert E. Ives, B.S., University of Pennsylvania, 1905; Ph.D., 

 Johns Hopkins, 1908; assistant and assistant physicist, Bureau of 

 Standards, 1908-09; physicist, Nela Research Laboratory, Cleveland, 

 1909-12; physicist. United Gas Improvement Company, Philadel- 

 phia, 1912-18; U. S. Army Air Service, 1918-19; research engineer, 

 Western Electric Company, 1919-24; Bell Telephone Laboratories, 



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