A Pictorial History of NBC Engineering Department : Photograph album
name: label: Creator
content: Howard, William A.
label: Names
content: National Broadcasting Company
topic: label: Topic
content: Broadcasting -- 1940-1980
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Collection was donated to the Archives Center, National Museum of American History by William A. Howard on January 24, 2003.
creator: label: Creator
content: Howard, William A.
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content: A Pictorial History of NBC Engineering Department : Photograph album
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) was formed in 1926 and was owned by General Electric, Radio Corporation of America, and Westinghouse.  The NBC Engineering Department was formed shortly after the company was formed in 1926. William A. Howard (b. 1913) was born in Gouldbusk, Texas. He graduated from Howard Payne University in 1939 with major in mathematics and science. He did graduate work at Baylor University, the University of St. Louis, the Moore School of Engineering, and Western Reserve University. During the Second World War, Howard served as a civilian radar instructor for the Air Force in Florida.  In 1943, he joined the Engineering Department at Philco Corporation developing an airborne television system, and "The Block 10 Project" for the Air Force and Navy. In April 1946, Howard joined NBC as a development engineer.  He worked as part of an engineering team that developed studio and film cameras for studios in New York and Washington.  He later served as Director of technical Operations for NBC radio and television stations throughout the United States from 1949-1960. Howard retired from NBC on January 1, 1979.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.3 Cubic feet (1 box)
unitdate: label: Date
content: April 15, 1946-January 1, 1979.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0738
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: 1 series.
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Collection processed by Alison Oswald, 2003.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Collection consists of one pictorial album of 180 pages of black and white photographs and text documenting the National Broadcasting Company's (NBC) Engineering Department.  The album was created by William A. Howard, a retired senior staff engineer at NBC.  Mr. Howard collected original photographs from the NBC files in New York and Hollywood and assembled them into an album to document the development of radio and television.  The album was disassembled and put in folders.