William Gundry Broughton papers, 1875-1964.
Collection Number: 2341

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library


DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
William Gundry Broughton papers, 1875-1964.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
2341
Abstract:
Personal and business correspondence, professional papers, office records, memoranda, design data, requisitions, and printed and mimeographed technical material. Also early technical information on amateur radio and accounts.
Creator:
Broughton, William Gundry, 1902-
Quanitities:
100 Linear Feet
Language:
Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Engineer.
William G. Broughton was an engineer for the General Electric Company in Schenectady. He graduated from Cornell University Class of 1924.

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Personal correspondence includes letters to parents and to Walter Scott Goll, a friend, from Cornell, Schenectady, and Pittsfield, Mass., also Goll's letters to Broughton, mostly 1919-34. Later letters discuss private airplanes, sailing, photography, and ham radio broadcasting, with related materials. Professional papers include student notes in engineering and business courses, business correspondence, office records, memoranda, design data, requisitions, and printed and mimeographed technical material, with emphasis on work as district sales manager for broadcasting equipment. Also early technical information on amateur radio and accounts.
Family papers include letters to his father Henry Primm Broughton (Cornell '90) and wife Jane Tinkham Broughton from relatives and friends; letters and papers regarding People's Fuel Gas Company, Crown Point, Indiana, 1914-19, of which Broughton was president; and documents, papers, printed material, and photographs relating to his father's association with wireless pioneer Nikola Tesla in the 1890's, and to his membership in clubs of early radio operators.
Also, schematics for a 250 watt am broadcast transmitter (May 15, 1944).

INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:

William Gundry Broughton Papers, #2341. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

SUBJECTS

Names:
Goll, Walter Scott.
Broughton, Henry Primm.
Broughton, Jane Tinkham.
Tesla, Nikola, 1856-1943.
People\'s Fuel Gas Company (Crown Point, Ind.)
General Electric Company (Schenectady, N.Y.)
Bread Loaf Writers\' Conference of Middlebury College
Subjects:
Radio engineers.
Engineers.
Radio -- History.
Engineering.
Radio -- Equipment and supplies.
Radio broadcasting.
Radio.
Form and Genre Terms:
Maps.
Slides (photographs).
Photographs.

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