Title
Photographs of Chilean telephone lines, June 1963
Reference
UK0108 SC MSS 273/01/05
Date
June 1963
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25 photographs of Chilean telephone lines from 1963. The photographs were developed in Santiago, Chile, in June 1963 (date stamped on reverse).
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21 Photographs
Admin. history/Biography
John Kemp (1896-1991), who was born in Switzerland, joined Western Electric in 1921 which became Standard Telephones & Cables (STC). He rose to the position of Chief Cable Engineer and travelled extensively with the company until 1939. John Kemp continued to work for STC after WWII up until his retirement from STC in the 1950s. He wrote many technical papers for Standard Telecommunication Laboratories Ltd (STL), which was the central research laboratory for STC, and also wrote several journal articles.
John Kemp joined the IEE as a Graduate member in 1924, became an Associate Member in 1926 and then a Member in 1935.
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