William Littell Everitt

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William Littell Everitt
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Doctoral advisorFrederic Columbus Blake
Doctoral studentsKarl Spangenberg

William Littell Everitt (April 14, 1900 – September 6, 1986) was a noted

electrical engineer, educator, and founding member of the National Academy of Engineering.[1] He received his Ph.D. from Ohio State University in 1933. He was adviser of numerous outstanding scientists at OSU including Karl Spangenberg, and Nelson Wax.[2] His PhD adviser was Frederic Columbus Blake.[3]

Early life

Everitt was born in

Baltimore, Maryland. From 1918-1919 he served in the United States Marine Corps, then joined Cornell University
to study electrical engineering where he received his E.E. degree in

1922. From 1922-1924 he worked at the North Electric Manufacturing Company of Galion, Ohio, on telephony switchboards, then studied electrical engineering at the University of Michigan where he received his M.A. in 1926.[4]

He then joined

electronic amplifiers
.

Career

In 1940, Everitt was appointed to the

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(1944–49) and dean (1949–68). One of the engineering buildings there bears his name.

In his long career, Everitt was a radar pioneer and author of basic texts on radio engineering and communication. He invented automatic telephone equipment, a "time compressor" to accelerate recorded speech, high-power radio amplification, a frequency modulation radio altimeter, and several antenna matching and feeding systems. His textbook Communications Engineering, first published in 1932, was a classic in the field.[5]

Awards and honors

Everitt became

AIEE, and a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Society for Engineering Education, the Acoustical Society of America, Eta Kappa Nu, the National Council of Tau Beta Pi, and Sigma Xi
, and received 10 honorary doctorate degrees.

Personal life

Everitt's daughter, Barbara Everitt Bryant, became the first woman to direct the United States Census Bureau.[6]

Selected works

  • Communication engineering, 1st ed., New York London, McGraw-Hill, 1932.

Notes

  1. ^ "Founding members of the National Academy of Engineering". National Academy of Engineering. Retrieved October 21, 2012.
  2. ^ "Mathematics Genealogy Project (William Littell Everitt)".
  3. ^ "Mathematics Genealogy Project (Frederic Columbus Blake)".
  4. ISBN 978-0-309-04349-6
    .
  5. ^ https://archive.org/details/CommunicationEngineering [dead link]
  6. ^ "Barbara Everitt Bryant", History, US Census Bureau, retrieved 2017-10-20. Includes links to detailed biography and to PDF interview, January 19, 1993.

References

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