William L. Everitt Papers, 1919-88

Description: Papers of William L. Everitt (1900-86), professor of electrical engineering (1944-49) and dean (1949-68), including biographical data (1946-84), awards (1954-84), photographs (1919, 1960-77), clippings (1944-84), documents on military service (1919-46) and university education (1920-35); Broadcast Engineering Conference announcements (1940-42); Ohio State University research (1942-44); University of Illinois appointments (1944-68); Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE) (1945-47) minutes, memoranda, reports of the Executive, Sections, Nominations, and Academic Committees; correspondence and reports from the British Institute of Electrical Engineering and the Canadian IRE Council; patents (1952, 1959); programs and tributes (1963-84); retirement party file (1968); memorials (1986-88); publications (1929, 1934-80) and papers, (1946-71, 1977). Publications related to engineering research, telecommunications and electronics. Unpublished papers related to radar, engineering research, engineering education, Indian and Russian engineering education (1958, 1963), faculty recruitment, physics, international relations and student motivations and understanding. Also contains materials relating to the Time-Speech Compression Project (1950-58).