Harmon B. Deal Papers
name: label: Creator
content: Deal, Harmon B. (electrical engineer)
label: Names
content: Atwater Kent Manufacturing Company
topic: label: Topic
content: Television
label: Topic
content: Electrical engineers
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Immediate source of acquisition unknown.
creator: label: Creator
content: Deal, Harmon B. (electrical engineer)
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content: Harmon B. Deal Papers
abstract: label: Summary
content: These papers relate to the study of the development in television.
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Deal, an electrical engineer, graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1920. He joined the Atwater Kent Manufacturing Company in Philadelphia and was assigned to the Radio Apparatus Division and then to the television research department. Later he worked for the RCA Company, Moorestown, New Jersey. He researched improvements in radar reception techniques for the Defense Electronics Division.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.66 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1920-1930
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Collection transferred from the Division of Electricity (now Division of work and Industry), 5/27/83.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0053
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Technical drawings
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Collection processed by Robert Harding, 1983
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Technical drawings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: This collection includes blueprints, schematics, photographs, notes, and some correspondence of Harmon B. Deal, engineer with the Atwater Kent Manufacturing Company, relating to a study on the possible lines of development of television in 1929.