[Milsurplus] CMS Update

[Nick England]

More FWIW -
Other people at Electronic Research & Mfg (from a 1950 directory listing)
George H Lister (W8NV) President
Lee H Peck, Director of Research
R.C. Blauvelt, Chief Engineer
R. N. Lister, Plant Superintendant
Staff - 3 engineers, 3 technical personnel, 2 others
Albert R Panetta - W1TFL
Research Activities: Development and production of ultra high frequency
communication equipment, supersonic generators and associated laboratory
equipment, equipment for electro-chemical use., and electronic devices for
control and measurement purposes: methods of high frequency crystal
(piezoelectric) operation

Article on Overtone Crystal Oscillator Design by George H Lister
page 88, November 1950, Electronics magazine

Nick England K4NYW
www.navy-radio.com


On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 1:35 PM Nick England <navy.radio at gmail.com> wrote:

> FWIW -
> CMS was made by Electronic Research & Mfg. Co. of Cleveland OH
>
> from a February 5, 1945 magazine -
> CLEVELAND - Electronic Research & Mfg.
> Co. has been incorporated with $500 capital
> and 200 shares no par value to manufacture
> and develop electrical, chemical and mechanical
> products.
>
> November 1945 "Communications" article on miniaturized pocket receiver -
> W. J. BROWN
> Consulting Engineer
> Research Director, Electronic Research and Mfg. Corp.
> Formerly Vice President, The Brush Development Co.
>
> 1946 IRE Directory -
> W. J. BROWN
> Electronic & Radio Engineering Consultant
> Electronic Industrial Applications, Commercial
> and Broadcasting Transmitter and Receiver Design, Test Equipment, etc.
> 23 years experience in electronic development
> 1420 East 25th St., Cleveland 14, Ohio - Superior 1241
>
> 1946 advertisement attached
>
> from Sept. 1947 Communications
> W. J. Brown, P. O. Box 5106, Cleveland. Ohio,
> former vice president of Brush Development Co., and now a professional
> consulting
> engineer, sailed recently to England to conduct a survey of European
> communications development activities.
> Mr. Brown, who was also formerly chief engineer of Electric and Musical
> Industries, is now American consultant for EMI.
>
> from Cleveland City Directory 1955
> ELECTRONIC RESEARCH & MANUFACTURlNG CORP,
> 1420 E 25th 14, Tel Superior 1-5171
>
> Jan 1961 Sprague acquires VecTrol
> Walter J. Brown, President and Director of Engineering of the recently
> acquired Sprague subsidiary.
> Mr. Brown, well-known, English-born inventor, prior to founding
> VecTrol was at various times section leader in radio research at
> Metropolitan
> Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.; chief engineer of the radio set division
> of Electric and Musical Industries, Ltd., the largest electronic equipment
> manufacturer in Great Britain; director of engineering at Philco of
> Great Britain, Ltd., and vice president in charge of production and
> assistant to the president at The Brush Development Co., Cleveland,
> Ohio. He has a Bachelor of Science from the University of Manchester,
> England. Mr. Brown presently has over 130 patents to his credit dating
> back to 1923. He is a fellow of the American Institute of Electrical
> Engineers,
> and a senior member of the Institute of Radio Engineers. He is
> a member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, London, a registered
> professional engineer in Connecticut and Ohio, and a chartered electrical
> engineer in Great Britain.
>
> ....the purchase of a small engineering laboratory, VecTrol Engineering,
> Inc. in Stamford, Connecticut,
> in the fall of 1960. This small facility, founded by Walter J. Brown,
> President, concentrates in the development
> of electrical "control" devices. These devices are circuit combinations
> through which one may control large
> amounts of power such as used in large DC motors, electronic power
> supplies, and the like.
>
> December 1972 IEEE OBITUARY -
> Walter J. Brown, electronics pioneer
> Walter John Brown (M'25,SM'434, F'50, FL'68), an early pioneer in radar,
> high fidelity, and miniature radios, died recently at the age of 72. He was
> living in Stamford, Conn.
> A native of Stockport, England, Mr. Brown was graduated from Manchester
> University in 1923 with the master's degree in electronics.
> Mr. Brown invented a radar tube in the 1920s. In 1945 he developed a
> pocket-sized radio receiver and in 1955 a thermal control unit for
> detecting minute temperature changes in cooling and heating systems.
> Mr. Brown was the chief developer of "smooth speed regulator," the device
> that made sewing machines automatic and was also used in many industrial
> motors. His submarine and mine-detecting systems were reportedly
> responsible for the U.S. Navy's ability to penetrate mine-fields in Tokyo
> Bay in World War II.
> Mr. Brown had been president of the Vectrol Co. of Stamford. When it
> became part of the Sprague Electric Co. of North Adams, Mass., in 1964, he
> stayed in Stamford and opened his own consulting firm.
> He received the Premium Award from IEE (London) in 1936.
> Surviving are his widow, the former Katherine Willey; a son, Robert of
> Stamford; two daughters, Katherine of Stamford and Mrs. Edwin Bishop of
> Youngstown, Ohio, and one grandchild.
>
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