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Show 1 FRANK B. JEWETT, former lieutenant colonel in the army, who won distinguished service medal med-al for inventing apparatus to detect submarines. UNDERSEA CRAFT I EXPERTTD SPEAK F. B. Jewett, Noted Engineer, Engi-neer, Will Give Address in Salt Lake Monday. I Frank B. Jewett, formerly a lieutenant lieuten-ant colonel of the signal corps of the United Htates army and wearer of the distinguished servico medal for his aid in the development of devices for detecting de-tecting hostilo submarines and other technical apparatus, will address a meeting of members of tho American Instituto of Electrical Engineers to be held at 8 o'clock Monday evening- at the Commercial club. His sub.iect will be "Some War-Time Developments in Electrical Communication and Allied Fields. ' ' Although Mr. Jewett came into greater great-er prominence during the war, he has long been widely known as ono of the foremost electrical engineers of America. Amer-ica. After an extensive education in electrical elec-trical engineering he became transmission transmis-sion engineer, for tho American Telephone Tele-phone and Telegraph company. It was while acting in this capacity that the loading of eight gauge circuits was perfected; phantom cables and phantom phan-tom loading for open wires and cables were developed; the Xew York to Denver Den-ver circuit and line was engineered and the Boston to Washington underground cable was laid. . He became assistant chief engineer ot the Western Electrical company m charge of all development and research work in April, 1012. Since 1916 he has been chief engineer, which position he now holds. . During the war he was an advisory member of the special submarine board of the naw and contributed much toward tow-ard the perfection of devices for detecting de-tecting hostile submarines. One of the most startling undertakings accomplished accom-plished under his direction was the perfection per-fection of wireless telephony. He is a member of the Machinery, Technology and Engineers' club of New York; a member of the University club of Chicago, the Cosmos club of Washington, Wash-ington, and is a former vice president and fellow of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers. He is also a member of the American Physical so-city, so-city, of the Xew York Electrical society, so-ciety, of the National Academy of Sciences,; Sci-ences,; and manv other clubs and institutions insti-tutions throughout the United States. |