[Milsurplus] OT- Winfield Salisbury was inducted - AOC Tech. Hall of Fame (SMECC)Long Art.
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Winfield Salisbury was inducted into the AOC Technology Hall of Fame. The
Technology Hall of Fame recognizes individuals who have distinguished
themselves as innovators and have made significant contributions to the
advancement of Electronic Warfare (EW).
Glendale, Arizona, Dec. 18, 2015 (SMECC) --
Southwest Museum of Engineering Communications and Computation. (SMECC),
an Archives, Library and Museum project, announced today that Dr. Winfield
W. Salisbury, noted physicist and engineer, has been inducted into the
prestigious Association of Old Crows (AOC) Electronic Warfare Technology Hall of
Fame. Salisbury was officially inducted during the AOC Foundation
Celebration of Excellence Awards Ceremony at the 52nd Annual AOC International
Symposium and Convention.
The Technology Hall of Fame recognizes individuals who have distinguished
themselves as innovators and have made significant contributions to the
advancement of EW.
"On behalf of everyone at SMECC, We are delighted to have this honor
bestowed on Dr. Salisbury for his work in the Electronic Warfare field", said Ed
Sharpe, Director and Lead Archivist for SMECC.
Sharpe elaborated, "Throughout his career, Dr. Salisbury has worked
tirelessly in whatever segment of science and technology he was involved in.
Prewar it was with Ernest O. Lawrence at Berkeley with improved performance of
Cyclotrons, during the war Dr. Salisbury followed Ernest O. Lawrence to
the M.I.T Radiation Laboratories and then joined Fred Terman at Harvard
Radio Research Labs (RRL) to develop countermeasures for RADAR. I was proud
to know him and have him to mentor me on EW History... I wish he was still
with us."
Dr. Salisbury collaborated with SMEC (Now known as SMECC on several
journal articles for the museum's publication Vintage Electrics back in the early
90s and was mentor to SMECC Director and Lead archivist Ed Sharpe.
Winfield Salisbury's WWII EW work.
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1942-1945: Harvard Research Radio Laboratory, Cambridge, Massachusetts,
Group Coordinator and Member of the Governing Board. While there was in
charge of TUBA/MPQ-1 transmitter for jamming German Fighter Radar and ELEPHANT
CIGAR/MRT-1, a large ground HF jammer.
After returning from England/TUBA in 1945 Salisbury went to Los Alamos
to analyze APS-13 tail end radars that were used in A-bomb to be dropped
on Japan. In his memoirs he states, "I rapidly found several weak points
about the proposed system including poorly shielded I.F. amplifiers and a
weakness for Chaff interference. We worked these problems out of the
system rapidly"
W.W. Salisbury also invented first non-reflective coating for Radar pulses
(known as Salisbury Screen) Patent 2,599,944 - Absorbent Body for
Electromagnetic Waves Jun.10, 1952 Filed May 11, 1943 and assigned to USA.
Post WWII
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After the war Dr. Salisbury went on to be Director of Scientific Research
at Collins Radio (a separate area from the airplane radios and Amateur radio
goods).
Due to his background with Cyclotrons, High Power UHF and Microwave
frequencies this was a good fit for him and under his oversight Collins built
some of first commercially produced Cyclotrons for Atomic Energy
Commission one at Brookhaven national Laboratories and the other at Argonne
National Laboratories.
1945-1951: Collins Radio, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Director of Research
1952; University of California (Berkeley), Mackay Professor of Electrical
Engineering.
1952-1955: California Research and Development Company, Livermore,
California, Chief Nuclear Physicist. Invented process for converting U-238 and
thorium to nuclear fission fuel, which led to development of Lawrence
Livermore Laboratory. (Classified)
1954-1955: Gray Scientific Division of the Remler Company, San Francisco,
California, Director of Research. Patents and Development of first digital
radio receiver.
1956-1958: Zenith Radio Research Corporation, Salisbury Laboratory,
Redwood City, California, Director of Research in Nuclear Fusion and magnetic
confinement 2.5-million gauss magnetic field.
1958-1965: Varo, Inc., Garland, Texas, Research and Development in
Radiation Weapons for U.S. Air Force; Chief Scientist.
1965-1977: Harvard College Observatory and Smithsonian Astrophysical
Observatory, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1977-1982: Occidental Research Corp., Division of Occidental Petroleum
Company, 2100 S.E. Main Street, Irvine, California. Nuclear Physics
Consultant.
1982 - : Various projects involving fusion, laser drilling for oil and
other consulting work
Dr. Winfield W. Salisbury passed away on October 21, 1999 at 95 years old.
To see a list of his papers presented, patents, photos and more please go
to :
http://www.smecc.org/winfield_salisbury.htm
About the AOC Hall of Fame Award
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The AOC is a global professional EW and information operations association
that promotes electromagnetic spectrum operations and related military,
civilian and commercial applications. The Technology Hall of Fame,
established in 2001, recognizes individuals who have distinguished themselves as
innovators and have made significant contributions to the advancement of EW.
More Details on the The Association of Old Crows (AOC)
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"The Association of Old Crows is an organization for individuals who have
common interests in Electronic Warfare (EW), Electromagnetic Spectrum
Management Operations, Cyber Electromagnetic Activities (CEMA), Information
Operations (IO), and other information related capabilities. The Association
of Old Crows provides a means of connecting members and organizations
nationally and internationally across government, defense, industry, and academia
to promote the exchange of ideas and information, and provides a platform
to recognize advances and contributions in these fields."
AOC has members in 47 countries with 62 chapters in 20 countries. AOC’s
membership includes executives, scientists, engineers, managers, operators,
educators, and military personnel. Founded in 1964, the AOC owns a
headquarters building in Alexandria, Virginia, just outside Washington, DC.
The name “Old Crows” emerged from the first large-scale use of Electronic
Warfare during the WWII Battle of Britain and the US and allied bombing
raids over Europe. The Allied Radar Countermeasure operators used the code
name “Ravens” and employed receivers and transmitters to monitor and jam
threat frequencies. Military jargon later changed “Ravens” to “Crows.”
With origins in WWII, Electronic Warfare has been, and remains, a critical
enabling capability in military operations in peace and war. With the
evolution of digital/computer technology, Electronic Warfare (EW), Information
Operations (IO), and related disciplines are increasingly necessary to
achieve knowledge superiority, strategic and tactical dominance, and asset
protection in both offensive and defensive operations. Information Operations
include those actions taken to influence, effect, or defend information,
information systems, and decision-making. The development of information
technology also enables EW and IO systems to cover both the analog and digital
domains including the entire acoustic, magnetic, seismic, and electromagnetic
spectrum's.
About SMECC
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Ed Sharpe, founder and archivist at the Southwest Museum of Engineering,
Communications, and Computation, or SMECC, had an early fascination with
electronics, and spent long hours in his youth talking with retired military
and engineering men in his hometown in California. Seeing the technological
change in his lifetime and the ever-shortening generations of new technology—
and also out of pure fun and curiosity, Sharpe began collecting
communications and computing technology. In 1984 he started the SMEC (now SMECC)
museum next to his computer business, Computer Exchange Inc. in Phoenix. Since
then, the museum has moved to its current location in historic downtown
Glendale, and grown its collections to include many more artifacts, plus
library and archival collections related to engineering, communications, power
generation and transmission, computation history, history of office
automation, a wonderful display of items and toys that got youth interested in
science and technology from 1800's to 1990 - and more.
SMECC holds the papers of Kenneth D. Smith, who spent his working life at
Bell Laboratories. Smith contributed to many different projects ranging from
proximity fuses and radar during World War II, the TD-2 trans-continental
microwave relay system, and early development work on transistors. In
addition to transistors, in the 1950s K.D. was involved in the Bell Solar
Battery project, as well as working on the solar cells that went up on TELSTAR in
the 1960s. Of note is his contribution in preserving many experimental and
development model semiconductor devices and publications from the late
1940s through the 1960s that would have otherwise been lost to time.
SMECC was fortunate to obtain items related to physicist Winfield W.
Salisbury. This collection includes his writings, personal library, photos,
drawings and artifacts from his entire life including his time with E.O.
Lawrence of Cyclotron fame at Berkeley; WWII Radar and Countermeasures; Collins
Radio; and the construction of the cyclotrons at Argonne and Brookhaven
National laboratories - and more.
We Need to Save More!
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The SMECC museum project is always looking to save the notes, photos,
prototypes and libraries of scientific and technical people. It is good if
they are kept together and studied as a unit.
SMECC may be reached at 623 435 1522 or online at www.smecc.org
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