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[Field, George S. - Interview]

Item number (ISN):

444941

Series title:

National Research Council Oral History Project

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1975-10-08

Item number (ISN):

444941

Type of material:

Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL OF CANADA / CONSEIL NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES DU CANADA

Accession:

1975-0159

Media:

Sound

Part:

2 of 2

Production date:

1975-10-08

Production company:

National Research Council

Production credit:

interviewer, Don Phillipson

Description:

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Interview of Dr. George S. Field by Don Phillipson. Subjects discussed include: Field working during summer of 1929 for the Department of the Interior and returned to University of Alberta on leave of absence; resigned in 1930 to join the NRC; industry began to approach NRC with sound-proofing problems therefore Field and Boyle planned appropriate facilities such as the reverberation chamber for surface absorption of materials and adjoining second chamber to measure transmission of sound through materials; Field also worked on acoustics of the House of Commons and the Senate; in Physics, Boyle did not draft a research program - he hired staff for the main labs and left them to develop their own programs; sound recording instruments - war work on ships sounds used disc recorders; 1934 visit to US Bureau of Standards acoustic lab was to plan the NRC's transmission and reverb chambers; WWII; RCN wartime research system; Mackenzie became RCN director of scientific research aided by Rose; Halifax field station; Vancouver field station; NRC built dock at the mouth of the Rideau River with training building; acoustics lab designed exclusively by NRC for industrial clients; Sir Charles Wright worked for Pacific Naval Lab under Dr. F. Sanders; and during pre-war, Field visited RCA Ltd at Camden, NJ, where TV labs had closer security than any military laboratory. <2h 21mn>

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. Subject description taken from partial transcript in binder, National Research Council Oral History Project, Index A-G.~2. PAC tape 585 b and 586 a.~3. George S. Field worked in the Physics Division at NRC from 1930 to 1947, served with the RCN in 1947 and then became Chief scientist of the Defense Research Board (DRB) in 1947. The DRB was responsible for giving scientific advice to the Government of Canada on military matters.

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Vault ISN:

260229

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

C00586

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

R/R

Technical description:

POLY

Made from:

FROM LOANED MATERIAL

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

674897

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

C00585

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

R/R

Technical description:

POLY

Made from:

FROM LOANED MATERIAL

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

822880

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

444941-C00586.WAV

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

BWF

Made from:

C00586

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

822881

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

444941-C00586.MP3

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

MP3

Made from:

C00586

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

1117913

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

444941-C00585.WAV

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

BWF

Duration:

73:18

Made from:

C00585

Status:

MASTER
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Conditions of access:

Open

GENCAT identity number:

GAD 0FD645

Restrictions on consultation:

open

Donor restrictions:

Reproduction with permission of National Research Council.

Copyright status:

under copyright

Reproduction access:

With written permission of copyright owner : No donor restrictions. Copyright belongs to the Crown. Credit Library and Archives Canada.

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