Title
Technical papers
Reference
UK0108 SC MSS 276/01
Date
1953 to 2009
Creator
Scope and Content
Technical papers written and amassed by Thomas Oswald during his working career at Submarine Cables Ltd (became STC Submarine Systems) from 1953 until the mid-1990s.
The technial papers comprise folders and envelopes of papers, each folder/envelope having the title of the subject matter contained within written on the outside. The documents within each folder/envelope are typically Thomas's handwritten papers/reports on a particular subject, detailed supporting calculations, and related reference material and correspondence. Latterly the folders also contain computer programmes.
Exent
11 Boxes
Admin. history/Biography
Thomas Oswald (1920-2014) worked as a radar mechanic in the Royal Air Force (Flight Sergeant) from February 1940 to March 1946. Then from April 1946 until September 1951 he worked for Mullard Equipment Ltd where he did development work on carrier telephony, picture telegraphy and on magnetic materials.
From September 1951 until January 1952 Thomas worked for the Ministry of Supply, where he was a technical author for air publications, before moving to Wayne-Kerr Laboratories Ltd in January 1952 to work on the design of AC bridges. Thomas remained at Wayne-Kerr until September 1953 when he moved to Submarine Cables Ltd . At Submarine Cables he; carried out research into the transmission properties of cables; installed telecommunications equipment in Ireland and Canada; and developed submerged repeaters for trans-ocean multichannel telephony which he worked on throughout the 1960s and beyond. Thomas was responsible for and almost wholly carried out the electrical design of the repeaters for the Cantat B link between Newfoundland and Quebec provinces in Canada and was head of the electrical design section (he had several patents to his name).
Submarine Cables Ltd was acquired by STC in 1970 but Thomas continued working for the company, which became known as STC Submarine Systems, until his retirement in 1985. However, Thomas did not fully retire from STC in 1985, and instead he continued to do work for them under a series of one year part-time employment contracts. He ceased part-time employment with STC Submarine Systems in July 1990 when he moved to Denholm, Roxburghshire, but continued working with STC as a consultant, until the mid-1990s.
Thomas joined the IEE in 1957 as an Associate Member, then became a Member in 1966 when the IEE's membership category structure changed. Thomas remained a Member of the IEE, for more than 50 years until his death in 2014.
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