Hooper, Stanford Caldwell 1884-1955 creator mixed material monographic eng 14,000 33 13.2 Correspondence, diaries, speeches, articles, transcripts of tape recordings, research notes, notebooks, financial and legal papers, bibliographical file, and newspaper clippings relating to Hooper's part in the planning and growth of radio communications in government service. Documents his work in building the shore-detection radio finder system for the U.S. Navy, his design and construction of many of the U.S. Navy's high-power radio stations, his delegacy to national and international radio conferences in the 1920s and 1930s, and his role in persuading the U.S. government to help establish the Radio Corporation of America. Other subjects include long-life receiving and transmitting tubes, high-power vacuum-tubes, simultaneous multiwave communications systems, remote control radio operational techniques, depth finders, sound-oscillated radio systems, the application of long-distance radio techniques to aircraft, submarine sound detection systems, and radio-controlled target practice experiments. Correspondents include William Shepherd Benson, Mark L. Bristol, Richard Evelyn Byrd, Royal S. Copeland, Josephus Daniels, John Hays Hammond, James G. Harbord, Hiram Johnson, Emory Scott Land, Thomas A. Marshall, Elihu Root, Daniel C. Roper, David Sarnoff, and Owen D. Young. Open to research. Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material. Audiotapes transferred to Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division. Naval officer and electronics consultant. Collection material in English. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010099. Forms part of: Naval Historical Foundation collection. Benson, William Shepherd 1855-1932 Correspondence Bristol, Mark L. (Mark Lambert) 1868-1939 Correspondence Byrd, Richard Evelyn 1888-1957 Correspondence Copeland, Royal S. (Royal Samuel) 1868-1938 Correspondence Daniels, Josephus 1862-1948 Correspondence Hammond, John Hays 1888-1965 Correspondence Harbord, James G. (James Guthrie) 1866-1947 Correspondence Johnson, Hiram 1866-1945 Correspondence Land, Emory Scott 1879-1971 Correspondence Marshall, Thomas A. (Thomas Albert) Correspondence Root, Elihu 1845-1937 Correspondence Roper, Daniel C. (Daniel Calhoun) 1867-1943 Correspondence Sarnoff, David 1891-1971 Correspondence Young, Owen D 1874-1962 Correspondence United States. Navy Radio installations Radio Corporation of America. Communications, Military Radio Congresses Radio Equipment and supplies Radio Research Radio control Radio in aeronautics Radio in navigation Radio stations Submarines (Ships) Telecommunication systems Transmit-receive tubes Vacuum-tubes Consultants Naval officers mm 70052670 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms010099 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms010099.3 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010099 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010099.3 Open to research. Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material. DLC 730514 20260227111613.0 mm 70052670