Static Patents and Static Reducing Systems
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Clark, George Howard, 1881-1956
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content: George H. Clark Radioana Collection
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1891-1946
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0055, Series 92
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Series 92 contains material that describes apparatus, systems, methods and measurements of static-reducing devices. There is data as to form of static, including "term interference", interference due to lightning, and interference due to other natural causes. Included are abstracts of letters; abstracts from USN semi-monthly Radio Reports, August, 1919-October 1920; articles; blueprints; booklets; brief histories; claims; several copies of communication from the International Union of Scientific Radio Telegraphy; correspondence; data regarding Rogers and his underground antenna; descriptions; diagrams; experiments reports; extracts from Yearbook of W.T. & T., 1916, from New York Herald, 1899, and from Radio Report, 1919; graphs; illustrations; litigations; manuscripts; memoranda; minutes; news clippings notes; pamphlets; parts catalogue; patents; a few photographs; reports; reprints from journals; and tests. Box 385 deals specifically with static patents, and box 386 treats static reducing systems with a focus on Weagant's work.