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Actions	Details Remove from selection Add to selection Title Folder titled, 'works designs receivers', 1929-1939 Reference UK0108 SC MSS 278/02/07 Date 1929 to 1939 Creator Walter Leslie (Bill) (BSc Watton, ARCS, DIC, MIEE) Scope and Content Folder titled, 'works designs receivers' on the spine together with the number 5. The folder includes; 1. Sheet of A4 size gold colour film. 2. Typescript 6-page paper titled, 'advance information - 15 valve auto radiogram model 1800', dated 13 August 1934. Produced by J H A Whitehouse of the Technical Publications Department Information Service. 3. Typescript 4-page paper titled, 'advance information - spare part list electrical components', issue 3 dated 22 January 1935. Produced by J H A Whitehouse of the Technical Publications Department Information Service. Document has been annotated. 4. Model 600 15 valve receiver cicuit diagram. 5. Circuit diagrams for television models; 900 (no. 1B); and 701 & 900 (nos. 1A & 1B); 702 & 901 (no.3) sound receiver; 702 & 901 (no.3) HT unit; synchronising unit for 702 & 901 (no.3); and models 903-704 (no.4). Produced by the the Technical Publications Department Information Service. 6. Manuscript circuit diagram titled 'black spotter'. 7. Manuscript notes on 10 inch and 14 inch receivers dated 18 August 1939. 8. Typescript memo from A D Blumlein of EMI's Research Department sent to Issac Shoenberg titled, 'type 1801 and 1802 television receivers', dated 23 August 1939. This copy is marked 'Mr Connell'. Mr Connell worked with W L Watton. [Digital version available] 9. Blueprint TDW-9 for 'alteration to model 901 frame scan output circuit for improvement of waveform'. 10. A page from an unknown publication circa 1931 showing 'a gramophone that changes its own records' courtesy of The Gramophone Company Ltd. [Digital version available] 11. Ferranti 6-page marketing leaflet (reference Wd 401) titled, 'the Ferranti audio frequency transformer type AF3', dated September 1929. 12. Ferranti 4-page marketing leaflet (reference Wd 410) titled, 'the Ferranti audio frequency transformer type AF5', dated August 1930. 13. Ferranti 8-page marketing leaflet (reference Wa 512) titled, 'Ferranti push-pull transformers', dated September 1930. 14. Marconi adverts for 'Marconiphone television models 701 and 702'. [Digital version available] Exent 1 Folder Admin. history/Biography Walter Leslie (Bill) Watton [1907-2004], was born at South Stoneham, Hampshire in 1907, and was the eldest of 5 children. His family moved to Brighton during WWI where Walter was awarded several scholarships. Walter attended Brighton Municipal Technical School where he gained a University of London BSc at the age of 20 in 1927 (presented 9 May 1928, when he was aged 21). Walter then continued to study at Imperial College and was awarded its post graduate Diploma for work in the field of calorimetry. He also became an Associate of the Royal College of Science. After leaving Imperial College in April 1930, Bill worked for a brief period testing valves in Muswell Hill for Cambridge Instruments before joining Robert Watson-Watt's team at the Radio Research Laboratories in Slough (Bill was interviewed by Robert Watson-Watt). In January 1935 Bill left the Watson-Watt team to move to EMI at Hayes to work on television receivers and was part of the team that gave the first demonstration of the EMI system to the Postmaster General and the BBC. He also worked on the radio relay system supplied to the BBC for the outside broadcast of the 1937 Coronation. In November 1939 Bill was transferred back to work on radar devices and other highly secret work and ended up working with Alan Dower Blumlein. Later in WWII Bill was seconded from EMI to the Telecommunications Research Establishment at Malvern. Following WWII Bill went back to working with EMI on television development and helped to develop the equipment used for colour television. Bill became a Senior Engineer with EMI and by the 1960s was working for EMI's Telemetry Division, Feltham, on military developments and in particular RF characteristics of explosive devices. He pioneered measuring techniques and researches into the behaviour of these devices and was recognised as an expert in this field. This resulted in Bill sitting on a number of Ministry committees concerned with the safety of these devices in which capacity he visited North America and Australia. Bill finally retired from EMI in 1972. Bill was a member of the IEE for over 50 years. He joined the IEE as an Associate Member in 1947, and became a Member in 1966. A longer biography, written by Bill's daughter, is available from the IET Archives. Persons keyword Blumlein Alan Dower, Shoenberg Sir Isaac Level of description Item Hierarchy browser 110000003 Special Collection Manuscripts contains 321 parts UK0108 SC MSS 278 Walter Leslie Watton papers contains 9 parts UK0108 SC MSS 278/02 W L Watton's technical notes and notebooks, 1929-1971 contains 15 parts UK0108 SC MSS 278/02/07 Folder titled, 'works designs receivers', 1929-1939

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Folder titled, 'works designs receivers', 1929-1939
Reference
UK0108 SC MSS 278/02/07
Date
1929 to 1939
Creator
Walter Leslie (Bill) (BSc Watton, ARCS, DIC, MIEE)
Scope and Content
Folder titled, 'works designs receivers' on the spine together with the number 5. The folder includes; 1. Sheet of A4 size gold colour film. 2. Typescript 6-page paper titled, 'advance information - 15 valve auto radiogram model 1800', dated 13 August 1934. Produced by J H A Whitehouse of the Technical Publications Department Information Service. 3. Typescript 4-page paper titled, 'advance information - spare part list electrical components', issue 3 dated 22 January 1935. Produced by J H A Whitehouse of the Technical Publications Department Information Service. Document has been annotated. 4. Model 600 15 valve receiver cicuit diagram. 5. Circuit diagrams for television models; 900 (no. 1B); and 701 & 900 (nos. 1A & 1B); 702 & 901 (no.3) sound receiver; 702 & 901 (no.3) HT unit; synchronising unit for 702 & 901 (no.3); and models 903-704 (no.4). Produced by the the Technical Publications Department Information Service. 6. Manuscript circuit diagram titled 'black spotter'. 7. Manuscript notes on 10 inch and 14 inch receivers dated 18 August 1939. 8. Typescript memo from A D Blumlein of EMI's Research Department sent to Issac Shoenberg titled, 'type 1801 and 1802 television receivers', dated 23 August 1939. This copy is marked 'Mr Connell'. Mr Connell worked with W L Watton. [Digital version available] 9. Blueprint TDW-9 for 'alteration to model 901 frame scan output circuit for improvement of waveform'. 10. A page from an unknown publication circa 1931 showing 'a gramophone that changes its own records' courtesy of The Gramophone Company Ltd. [Digital version available] 11. Ferranti 6-page marketing leaflet (reference Wd 401) titled, 'the Ferranti audio frequency transformer type AF3', dated September 1929. 12. Ferranti 4-page marketing leaflet (reference Wd 410) titled, 'the Ferranti audio frequency transformer type AF5', dated August 1930. 13. Ferranti 8-page marketing leaflet (reference Wa 512) titled, 'Ferranti push-pull transformers', dated September 1930. 14. Marconi adverts for 'Marconiphone television models 701 and 702'. [Digital version available]
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1 Folder
Admin. history/Biography
Walter Leslie (Bill) Watton [1907-2004], was born at South Stoneham, Hampshire in 1907, and was the eldest of 5 children. His family moved to Brighton during WWI where Walter was awarded several scholarships. Walter attended Brighton Municipal Technical School where he gained a University of London BSc at the age of 20 in 1927 (presented 9 May 1928, when he was aged 21). Walter then continued to study at Imperial College and was awarded its post graduate Diploma for work in the field of calorimetry. He also became an Associate of the Royal College of Science. After leaving Imperial College in April 1930, Bill worked for a brief period testing valves in Muswell Hill for Cambridge Instruments before joining Robert Watson-Watt's team at the Radio Research Laboratories in Slough (Bill was interviewed by Robert Watson-Watt). In January 1935 Bill left the Watson-Watt team to move to EMI at Hayes to work on television receivers and was part of the team that gave the first demonstration of the EMI system to the Postmaster General and the BBC. He also worked on the radio relay system supplied to the BBC for the outside broadcast of the 1937 Coronation. In November 1939 Bill was transferred back to work on radar devices and other highly secret work and ended up working with Alan Dower Blumlein. Later in WWII Bill was seconded from EMI to the Telecommunications Research Establishment at Malvern. Following WWII Bill went back to working with EMI on television development and helped to develop the equipment used for colour television. Bill became a Senior Engineer with EMI and by the 1960s was working for EMI's Telemetry Division, Feltham, on military developments and in particular RF characteristics of explosive devices. He pioneered measuring techniques and researches into the behaviour of these devices and was recognised as an expert in this field. This resulted in Bill sitting on a number of Ministry committees concerned with the safety of these devices in which capacity he visited North America and Australia. Bill finally retired from EMI in 1972. Bill was a member of the IEE for over 50 years. He joined the IEE as an Associate Member in 1947, and became a Member in 1966. A longer biography, written by Bill's daughter, is available from the IET Archives.
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Blumlein Alan Dower, Shoenberg Sir Isaac
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