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).
Dates
- 1875-1964.
Creator
- Broughton, William Gundry, 1902- (Person)
Language of Materials
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.
Extent
100 Linear Feet
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.
Physical Description
Correspondence, manuscripts, printed materials, and organizational records.
General
- Contact Information:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524rareref@cornell.eduhttp://rmc.library.cornell.edu
- Compiled by:
- RMC Staff
- Date completed:
- November 2015
- EAD encoding:
- Marcie Farwell, November 2015
- Date modified:
- Jude Corina, June 2017
- Bread Loaf Writers\' Conference of Middlebury College
- Broughton, Henry Primm.
- Broughton, Jane Tinkham.
- Engineering.
- Engineers.
- General Electric Company (Schenectady, N.Y.)
- Goll, Walter Scott.
- Maps.
- People\'s Fuel Gas Company (Crown Point, Ind.)
- Photographs.
- Radio -- Equipment and supplies.
- Radio -- History.
- Radio broadcasting.
- Radio engineers.
- Radio.
- Slides (photographs).
- Tesla, Nikola, 1856-1943.
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by RMC Staff
- Date
- November 2015
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
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Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)
rareref@cornell.edu