In the photo: (L to R) Dr David Sloan - Dr. Winfield W. Salisbury and Dr. L. C. Marshall of the University of California -
along with parts of a Resnatron that delivered a record 140 Kilowatts of continuous power
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Regents Authorize Chancellors; Increase in Student Fee ApprovedPresident Robert Gordon Sproul of the University of California announced late yesterday he had been authorized by the Board of Regents to select chancellors for the Berkeley and UCLA campuses., In a statement given upon con-' elusion of the regents' meeting, he' said the board had approved the list of names he had submitted in executive session and that announcement of the chancellorships would be made not later than December 14 when the regents next meet, this time in Los Angeles. He did not say how many names were on the list.In unanimous action the regents also decided to establish free student counseling centers at the Berkeley and UC campuses, to be financed by raising the university's incidental fee $2, increasing it from $35 to $37 a semester beginning February 1. The regents approved appointment of Winfield W. Salisbury., director of research for the Collins Radio Co. of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, as Mackay professor of electrical engineering.Salisbury's appointment for the current semester is the first of an expected series that will bring the country's outstanding electrical engineers to the university as visiting professors.The professorship was endowed in 1906 by Clarence H. Mackay, founder of Mackay Radio, and his mother, Mrs. John William Mackay.The regents also named Adriano Buzzati-Traverso, head of the Instituto dl Genetica of the University of Pavia, Italy, as visiting professor of zoology and Alfred von Engel of Exeter College, Oxford, was named visiting professor of physics. It was also announced that effective January 1, Edward A. Wright will be professor of librarianship.On recommendation of President Robert Gordon Sproul, the board approved eight other appointments to the faculty; accepted five resignations; approved 16 changes in status and granted 15 leaves of absence. The board further accepted gifts and pledges totaling $324,297,99 to be used for various purposes on all eight campuses.
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S R Man's Invention Saved Britain's War Plants
Great Britain's cities and war plants were protected against German attacks by an invention perfected by a former San Rafael man, it was learned here today. An anti-radar device, designed to foil the Luftwaffe's stabs at the heart of industrial England, was invented and installed by Winfield W. Salisbury, 42-year-old Scientist who resided in Marin county from 1930 to 1937,He is the son of Dr. and Mrs., H. S. Salisbury of San Rafael and the brother of Scott. Salisbury, employed here by the Pacific Gas and Electric Co. Salisbury designed the machine for the Royal Air Force while working for the office of Scientific Research and Development at Harvard's radio research laboratory, in 1942, '1'The "Resnatron."' as the1 device is known, contains the most powerful vacuum tube oscillator in existence.Because of the huge chicken wire horn, the Resnatron became known as, the "tuba."' The inventor placed three of the these "tubas" in army trucks and and went to England to supervise their installation.Would someone finish typing this? Trying to clean the OCR is making me crazy! E#
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THE RESNATRON-Dr. W. W. Salisbury, director of research for Collins Radio Company of Cedar Rapids, is seen (right) with Dr. D. H. Sloan (left) and Dr. L. C. Marshall (center), University of California scientists, as they examine various parts for operating the Resnatron tube. More information about the Resnatron-high frequency generator and secret heart of America's wartime jamming of German radar warning devices-was disclosed this week. Dr. Salisbury, who supervised the Resnatron's development for its wartime use, is continuing his developmental studies of the device, according to officials of the Collins Company. Information from Berkeley, Calif., where the picture was taken, said that the Resnatron, fathered by a peacetime X-ray tube, first began to take shape in experiments on the University of California campus nine years ago. |
