Technical articles and booklets including the following;
01. 'Electric wave filters', by G J S Little. The Institution of Post Office Electrical Engineers paper no. 143. Read before Institution 8 December 1931. Includes an inserted press cut titled, 'death watch beetle broadcast'.
02. 'The design and construction of electric wave filters', by R J Halsey. The Institution of Post Office Electrical Engineers paper no. 147. Read before Institution 13 December 1932.
03. Journal of the Television Society, series 2, vol. 2 part 7, March 1937. Includes the articles; 'electrical interference with broadcast and television reception', by F R W Strafford; 'the Cossor television receiver', by L H Bedford; 'the EMI television receiver', by G H Watson [Digital version available]; and 'some aspects of the design of the mihaly-Traub television receiver', by M J Goddard.
04. Rough proof of the booklet, 'television', produced by the Board of Education and the Science Museum in 1937. The booklet is an account of the development and general principles of television as illustrated by a special exhibition held at the Science Museum, June - September 1937.
05. 'London's television twin cable links', by John Collard of EMI Ltd, from 'the Post Office Electrical Engineers' journal', vol.30, October 1937, part 3. [Digital version available]
06. Journal of the Television Society, series 2, vol. 2 part 10, March 1938. Includes the articles; 'luminescence and its application to television', by Leonard Levy; 'home constructed receivers', by S West; 'a commercial television receiver employing a small cathode ray tube', by T D Humphreys; and 'television receivers', by D C Espley.
07. Journal of the Television Society, series 2, vol. 2 part 12, December 1938. Includes the articles; 'English and continental television', by E H Traub; 'the optical system of the Scophony television receivers', by D M Robinson; 'some aspects of the propagation of ultra-short waves', by R L Smith-Rose; 'the fine structure of television images', by Harold A Wheeler and Arthur V Loughren; and 'television station W2XAX', by Peter C Goldmark.
08. 'Anti-corrosion protection of aircraft parts', by J Haworth, from 'the draughtsman', March 1941.
09. Three articles which had been published as letters to the editor in the 'physical review', vol. 74, 15 July 1948. The letters were; 'the transistor, a semi-conductor triode', by J Bardeen and W H Brattain; 'nature of the forward current in germanium point contacts', by W H Brattain and J Bardeen; and 'modulation of conductance of thin films of semi conductors by surface charges', by W Shockley and G L Pearson.
10. Obituaries from 'journal of the IEE', December 1949, including that of Professor Cecil Lewis Fortesque.
11. Obituaries from 'journal of the IEE', June 1951, including that of Edward Mallett.
12. 'The Institution's loyal address', 'journal of the IEE', June 1953.
13. 'Television pick-up tubes', by Professor J D McGee, 'journal of the IEE', August 1955. [Digital version available]
14. 'The principles of NTSC color television', by Charles J Hirsch, 'journal of the IEE', February 1956.
15. 'Automobile ignition systems', by A N Partridge, 'journal of the IEE', May 1956.
16. Obituary of Labouchere Hillyer Bainbridge-Bell from 'journal of the IEE', January 1957.
17. Review of 'VHF television tuners', by Heywood [W L Watton had reviewed this volume], 'journal of the IEE', February 1957.
18. 'Heat control in electronic equipment', by E N Shaw. Reprint from 'electronic engineering', Jan, Feb, March 1957, vol.29.
19. 'Electroluminescence and its applications', by J N Bowtell, and 'the electrostatic loudspeaker', by T N Williamson. Both articles in 'journal of the IEE', August 1957.
20. Wireless World, July 1961. Includes the articles; 'gramophone record deformation', by J Walton; 'colour television in the United States', by Jack Darr; and 'transistor measurements', by C Bayley.
21. 'Stepped-impedance transformers and filter prototypes', by Leo Young, 'IRE transactions on microwave theory and techniques', September 1962.
22. 'Theoretical studies on signal-to-noise characteristics of an FM system', by Hiroshi Akima, 'IEEE transactions on space electronics and telemetry', December 1963.
23. 'Design principles and practices for controlling hazards of electromagnetic radiation to ordnance (hero design guide)', published by direction of the Chief of the Bureau of Naval Weapons, US Department of the Navy, 15 June 1965. Reference: NAVWEPS OD 30393.
24. 'Mechanism of the lightening flash', by B J Mason, 'electronics & power', May 1966.
25. 'The place of the engineer in society', by Lord Snow, 'electronics & power', May 1966.
26. 'Holography - the reconstruction of wavefronts', by Dennis Gabor, 'electronics & power', July 1966.
27. 'Common ground - British archaeology and the electrical engineer', by Ronald Holmes, 'electronics & power', May 1967.
28. 'Electrochemical devices', by Robert C Osthoff; 'automation in colour printing', by D J Kyte; and 'Pioneer's solar-cell array', by W R Baron. All articles in 'electronics & power', March 1968.
29. 'High-quality audio amplifiers', by J Dinsdale, 'electronics & power', May 1968.
30. 'Protection of structure against lightning', by R H Golde, 'proceedings of the IEE', vol.115 no.10, October 1968.
31. 'Automation in map making', by Ann Richardson, 'electronics & power', December 1968.
32. 'A plain man's guide to lightning protection', by R H Golde, 'electronics & power', March 1969.
33. 'The ubiquitous power transistor', by Leo L Lehner, 'electronics & power', January 1970.
34. 'Electronics in cars', by L G Cripps, and 'electrical equipment for motor vehicles - recent developments', by A N Partridge, both in 'electronics & power', November 1970.
35. 'The cocktail party phenomenon', 'electronics today international', July 1972.
36. 'Exact amplitude frequency characteristics of ladder networks', by E Green, undated.
37. 'A note on a parallel-tuned transformer design', by V C Rideout, 'Bell System technical journal', undated.
38. Section 6 on sample design from, 'decreasing the threshold in FM', by Enloe, in 'proceedings of the IRE', undated.
39. 'Colvern coil and HF amplification', by the technical staff of Colvern Limited, undated.
40. 'Primers for paint systems', by A D Walker, undated.
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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.
