Edward Lindley Bowles papers, 1869-1990

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Biographical Note

Date	Event
1897, Dec. 9	Born, Westphalia, Mo.
1918	United States Army, Camp Zachary Taylor, Ky., and Fort Sheridan, Ill.
1920	B.S., Washington University, St. Louis, Mo.
1921	M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass.
1921-1922	Radio editor, Boston Evening Transcript, Boston, Mass.
1921-1925	Assistant instructor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass.
1922	Married Lois Wuerpel
1925-1927	Assistant professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass.
1926-1937	Director, Round Hill Research Division, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, South Dartmouth, Mass.
1927-1937	Associate professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass.
1937-1947	Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass.
1940-1942	Secretary, Microwave Committee, National Defense Research Committee, Cambridge, Mass.
1942-1947	Leave of absence, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Consultant to secretary of war
1943-1947	Consultant to commanding general, United States Army Air Forces
1945	D.Sc., Norwich University, Northfield, Vt. Distinguished Service Medal, United States Army Air Forces
1947-1957	Scientific consultant, United States Air Force
1947-1963	Consulting professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass.
1947-1966	General consultant to president, Raytheon Co., Waltham, Mass.
1948	Honorary commander, civil division, Most Excellent Order of the British Empire Presidential Medal of Merit
1950-1952	Scientific warfare adviser, Weapons Systems Evaluation Group, Office of the Secretary of Defense
1951-1954	Consultant to secretary of the army
1955-1958	Chairman, Ad Hoc Advisory Committee on [television] Allocations, Senate Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
1959-1964	Director, Scientific Development Corp., Watertown, Mass.
1963-	Professor emeritus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass.
1964-1967	Consultant and special assistant to president, Analex Corp., Boston, Mass.
1965-1966	Director, Jarrell-Ash Co., Waltham, Mass.
1965-1966	President, Whitin Machine Works, Whitinsville, Mass.
1965-1968	Consultant, director, Anderson-Nichols & Co., Boston, Mass.
1966-1977	Director, White Consolidated Industries, Cleveland, Ohio
1968-1970	Chairman of the board and president, Information Transfer Corp., Wellesley, Mass.
1969-1977	Director, Bentley College, Waltham, Mass.
1970-1974	Director, Kodály Musical Training Institute, Wellesley, Mass.
1981-	Trustee, Newton-Wellesley Hospital, Newton, Mass.
1990, Sept. 9	Died, Weston, Mass.