[ARC5] Oh, Brother...

[Gordon White]

> Some biographical details:
>
>     Russell Luff Meredith, Aircraft Radio Corporation's pilot, was 
> born in Seattle on December 15th, 1892, the son of a city detective. 
> He joined the Air Corps during WW I, married in 1918 and in 1920 was a 
> captain, living at Kelly Field, Texas, with wife, Helen, and son, 
> Russell L. Meredith Jr.
>
>     What happened to his family we can only conjecture, but in 1930 he 
> was living as a bachelor in Boonton, N.J. and flying as a radio test 
> pilot with A.R.C.  Died in Texas on June 25, 1965 and is believed 
> buried at West Point.
>
>     Lewis M. Hull, A.R.C.'s president, was born in Lawrence, Kansas, 
> in 1898, the son of Arthur Hull, an instructor at Kansas University. 
> The family moved to Bethesda, MD during WW I where Arthur became a 
> patent examiner. (Lewis' mother, Jane, was a doctor.) He went to work 
> at the Bureau of Standards, from which he was recruited by Richard 
> Seabury to join Radio Frequency Laboratories, an early "think tank" to 
> do basic and engineering research with the aim of acquiring patents 
> that could be profitably licensed to various manufacturers. RFL was 
> also organized in part to exploit Baekelite as an insulator at radio 
> frequencies. A.R.C. was spun off from RFL in 1924 to continue to 
> design aircraft radio equipment. Although A.R.C. built prototypes, it 
> was not until 1940 that the company went into manufacture of 
> aeronautical radio equipment in quantity. (In the 1920s and 1930s 
> other companies built the hardware that A.R.C. designed.)
>
>     Hull was last known living in Mountain Lakes, N.J., adjacent to 
> Boonton, where A.R.C.'s plant was located. It was there that I met him 
> and became interested in Aircraft Radio Corporation.
>
>     - Gordon White