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R. L. Jones, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1909; Sc.D., 

 1911. Western Electric Company, Research Assistant, 1911-14; 

 Transmission Engineer, 1914-23 (Captain, U. S. Signal Corps, 1917- 

 18); Inspection Manager, 1923-. Bell Telephone Laboratories, 1925-; 

 Outside Plant Development Engineer, 192 7-; Director of Apparatus 

 Development, 1928-. 



John Riordan, B.S., Sheffield Scientific School, Yale University, 

 1923. American Telephone and Telegraph Company, Department of 

 Development and Research, 1926-. Mr. Riordan's work has been 

 mainly on problems associated with inductive effects of electrified 

 railways. 



John R. Shea, B.S. in Electrical Engineering, 1909, University of 

 Wisconsin; 1909, Manufacturing Department of the \\'estern Electric 

 Company. Manufacturing Adviser, Nippon Electric Company, 

 Tokyo, 1918 and 1919. Western Electric Company, 1920, in charge 

 of manufacturing planning, Hawthorne plant; 1927, Superintendent of 

 Manufacturing Development (during this year made an industrial 

 survey of manufacturing plants in Europe); 1929 to date. Assistant 

 Engineer of Manufacture directing the engineering of equipment and 

 processes of the Company's Baltimore, Maryland cable plant, in 

 addition to being responsible for similar activities at the Kearny, N. J. 

 plant. 



W. Howard Wise, B.S., Montana State College, 1921; M.A., 

 University of Oregon, 1923; Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 

 1926. American Telephone and Telegraph Company, Department of 

 Development and Research, 1926-. Dr. Wise has been engaged in 

 various theoretical investigations. 



