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Associate Research Metallurgist, Mr. Schumacher is in charge of a 

 group whose work relates largely to research studies on metals and 

 alloys. 



A. M. Skellett, A.B., 1924, M.S., 1927, Washington University; 

 Ph.D., Princeton University, 1933; Instructor, 1927-28, Assistant 

 Professor of Physics, 1928-29, University of Florida. Bell Telephone 

 Laboratories, 1929-. Dr. Skellett, formerly engaged in investigations 

 pertaining to the transatlantic radio telephone, is concerned with 

 applications of electronic and ionic phenomena. 



R. A. Sykes, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, B.S. 1929; 

 M.S. 1930. Columbia University, 1931-33. Bell Telephone Labora- 

 tories, Research Department, 1930-. Mr. Sykes has been engaged in 

 the application of piezoelectric crystals to selective networks, and 

 more recently in the use of coaxial lines as filter elements. 



Emil Fridstein Vaage. E.E., Technical University of Darmstadt, 

 Germany, 1921-26; M.S., Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, 1932. 

 Elektrisk Bureau, Oslo, Norway, 1926-27. American Telephone and 

 Telegraph Company, 1927-34; Bell Telephone Laboratories, 1934-. 

 Mr. Vaage has been engaged in inductive coordination studies, 1927-39. 

 Since 1939 his work has been concerned with open-wire television 

 transmission. 



L. G. Wade, B.S.E.E., University of Idaho, 1918; M.S., Cornell 

 University, 1924. Engineering Department, Western Electric Com- 

 pany, 1924. Mr. Wade has been engaged in developing equipment and 

 processes for the manufacture of lead covered telephone cable, par- 

 ticularly on drying and dry storage of cable cores preceding the lead 

 sheathing operation. 



