Contributors to this Issue 



Albert L. Blaha, B.S. in E.E., Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, 

 1950; Bell Telephone Laboratories, 193G-. In 1937 and 1938, Mr. Blaha 

 was in the quartz crystal development shop. Since then he has been pri- 

 marily concerned with the testing and development of relays. During 

 World War II he worked on magnetostriction type sonar devices. 



A. J. Brunner, B.S. in M.E., Lewis Institute, 1934; Western Elec- 

 tric Company, 1920-. During Mr. Brunner's early association with 

 Western Electric he was included in an engmeering group developing 

 special machines for the manufacture of telephone products. Later he 

 worked on the development of die casting processes. For the past decade 

 his assignments have been in the field of plastic molding. He did notable 

 work in connection with molding 500-t3^pe handset parts and is presently 

 engaged in engineering the facilities required to manufacture molded 

 parts for the wire spring relay. He is the holder of numerous patents. 



F. Harold Chase, University of Illinois, 1921; Western Electric 

 Company, 1917-1918; Bell Telephone Laboratories, 1921-. Until joining 

 the Power Engineering Group in 1943 he was concerned with the design 

 of carrier system equipment and maintenance practices on toll equip- 

 ment. Since 1951, he has been developing new uses for transistors in the 

 control of power equipment. 



H. E. CossoN, B.S. in M.E., Michigan College of Mining and Tech- 

 nology, 1949; Allis Chalmers Manufacturing Compan}^, 1949-51; A. 0. 

 Smith Corp., 1951; Western Electric Company, 1951-. Mr. Cosson 

 served thirty-one months during World War II, fifteen of which w'ere 

 on a naval aircraft carrier. Since joining the development engineering 

 group at Western Electric Company, he has worked on problems associ- 

 ated with straightening wire for the wire spring relay. Junior member 

 A.S.M.E. 



Thomas E. Davis, B.S. in E.E., University of Arizona, 1928; Bell 

 Telephone Laboratories, 1928-. He has been concerned \\ith apparatus 

 development projects, including those related to microphones, handsets 



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