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
Engineer.
William G. Broughton was an engineer for the General Electric Company in Schenectady.
He graduated from Cornell University Class of 1924.
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
William Gundry Broughton Papers, #2341. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections,
Cornell University Library.
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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