[QuadList] TD-2 Microwave Relay papers buried in westinghoue Time Capsule open in 6939 !

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BELL LABS NEWS 
PUBLISHED TWICE MONTHLY BY BELL TELEPHONE  LABORATORIES INCORPORATED 
VOLUME V NO.  9                                                             
                         MAY 15, 1965 
  
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Time Capsule II Preserves Technical Journal  Articles 
Three articles from BTL's Technical Journal will be preserved for the 
people  of 6939 A.D. in the Westinghouse Time Capsule II. The articles are 
"Automatic  Switching for Nationwide Telephone Service" by A. B. Clark and H. S. 
Osborne;  "Nationwide Numbering Plan" by W. H. Nunn, both from the September, 
1952 issue,  and "The TD-2 Microwave Radio Relay System" by A. A. Roetken, 
K. D. Smith and R.  W. Friis, from the October, 1951 Technical Journal. 
Time Capsule II will contain a panorama of current human activity. Its  purp
ose is to supplement the original time capsule buried at the first New York 
 World's Fair in 1938. 
The new capsule is to be buried alongside the first one at the Westinghouse 
 World's Fair Pavilion at the end of the 1965 season. 
Bell Labs scientists W. H. Brattain and C. E. Shannon will have works  
included in the capsule's microfilm records as will J. Bardeen, a former BTL  
scientist. 
'The Transistor, A Semi-Conductor Triode," by J. Bardeen and W. H. 
Brattain;  and "Mathematical Theory of Communications," by C. E. Shannon and W. 
Weaver,  will be the works included. 
The Time Capsule contents were chosen by a 14-man selections committee 
headed  by Dr. Leonard Carmichael, a vice president of the National Geographic  
Society. 
Replicas of all objects to be buried in the capsule are on display now at 
the  Westinghouse Pavilion at the Fair. 
 (http://www.smecc.org/td-2/wpe1.gif)  
Note: K.D. Smith was the circuit design supervisor on  the TD-2 Microwave 
Radio Relay System. of Bell Labs  fame. 
(see _www.smecc.org/the_k_d__smith_collection_by_ed_sharpe.htm_ 
(http://www.smecc.org/the_k_d__smith_collection_by_ed_sharpe.htm)  to learn more about 
him). 
He saved a copy of  the publication he helped to author on the TD-2 System. 
He also saved the   issue of BELL LABS NEWS with this wonder tidbit about a 
copy of it being stashed  away in a time capsule until 6939. Note his  card 
with a  question as  to if it would be read..... 
(Items  form the K. D. Smith  Collection at  the Southwest Museum of 
Engineering Communications and  Computation) 

see this page at    
_http://www.smecc.org/td-2_microwave_radio_relay_system.htm_ (http://www.smecc.org/td-2_microwave_radio_relay_system.htm) 
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