This series consists of published abstracts, papers presented at conferences and proceedings authored by R H Barker.
It also contains Bumblebee Report No. 42.
Between 1941-1945 R H Barker oversaw a programme on the use of frequency modulation for army communications. He quickly rose in rank and because of his expertise in telemetry reported on the design of the V2 rocket and shortly after was invited to attend the first International Telemetering Symposium at Princeton, USA. This was a collaboration to advance knowledge of missile technology to develop a guided, jet-propelled, anti-aircraft missile, preferably with supersonic speed, to protect the navy task force from Kamikaze threats. It was code named Bumblebee. The Bumblebee project was instigated to defend the task force against this threat. This research had a profound influence on the direction of research by APL (Applied Physics Laboratory). He went on to design a system of telemetry and oversee manufacture of the first successful telemetry guided missile. [A digital copy of this first report is available as part of this deposit].
The items in this series include:
1. Papers presented at I. Princeton Telemetering Symposium 19-20 February 1946 II. APL Telemetering Conference 10 December 1945. This is the Bumblebee Report No. 42
2. Abstracts from: The Third International Measurement Conference IMEKO III and the Sixth International Instruments & Measurements Conference I&M VI 14-19 September 1964 Stockholm/Sweden. The abstract for the paper by R H Barker and W R Gosling is 14-UK-241 page 47 entitled 'A new system of guidance by modulated light beam'.
3. ACTA IMEKO 1964 Paper 14-UK-241 R H Barker and W R Gosling 'A system of optical guidance'.
4. Conference on Automatic Control, Cranfield July 1951. R H Barker 'The measurement of angle using the binary digital scale'.
5. Australian Defence Scientific Service Department of Supply Weapons Research Establishment - Data Processing and Automatic Computing Machines Proceedings of Conference held at Weapons Research Establishment, Salisbury, south Australia 3-8 June 1957. Paper by R H Barker ' The reconstruction of sampled data'.
6. Proceedings of the IEE Volume 119 Control & Science, IEE Control & Automation Division Chairman's Address 'Communications in control' Delivered 12 October 1971.
7. IEE News 18 October 1971 ' Communications in control' by R H Barker. A shortened version of the inaugural address by R H Barker, chairman of the IEE control and Automation Division 1971-1972, given at Savoy Place 12 October 1971.
[Digital copies available].
These items were from file no. 14 in the original deposit.
