Edward B. Craft

Edward Beech Craft (* 1881 ; † 1929 ) was an American engineer .

He worked in the Engineering Department of Western Electric in Chicago from 1902 to 1907, was a Development Engineer in New York from 1907 to 1918, Assistant Chief Engineer from 1918 to 1922, and Chief Engineer from 1922 to 1925. From 1925 he was Executive Vice President of Bell Telephone Laboratories. He worked with Edwin H. Colpitts , Harold D. Arnold, and Frank B. Jewett .

From around 1920 he worked on the sound film . Under his direction, a team under IB Crandall experimented on sound-on-film and another under JP Maxfield on sound-on-disc . On October 27, 1926, he presented the sound film The Voice from the Screen with the duo Witt & Berg to the New York Society of Electrical Engineers . The following year The Jazz Singer came out.

Publications

• The Bell system research laboratories ; 1924
• Airways Communication Service , Bell System Technical Journal, v7: i4 October 1928 ( Online ; PDF; 6.1 MB)

supporting documents

1. ↑ http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/bstj/vol07-1928/articles/bstj7-4-814.pdf
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4. ^ Scott Eyman : The speed of sound: Hollywood and the talkie revolution, 1926-1930 ; P. 102