Background
Maxfield, Joseph Pease was born on December 28, 1887 in San Francisco, California, United States. Son of Joseph Elwin and Harriett Whitemore (Mansfield) Maxfield.
Maxfield, Joseph Pease was born on December 28, 1887 in San Francisco, California, United States. Son of Joseph Elwin and Harriett Whitemore (Mansfield) Maxfield.
Bachelor of Science, Massachusetts Institute Technology, 1910.
Weis). Instructor physics and electro-chemistry, Massachusetts Institute Technology, 1910-1914. Research physicist, Western Electric Company, at New York, 1914-1919, department head (later Bell Telephone laboratories), 1919-1926. Manager engineering and research Victor Talking Machine Company, Camden, New Jersey, 1926-1929.
Consultant engineer Electrical Research Products, Incorporated, New York York, 1929-1933, staff engineer, 1933-1936, director commercial engineering, 1936-1941.
Superintendent commercial engineering Western Electric Company, Incorporated., 1941-1942. Professor director division physical war research, Duke University, 1942-1946.
Bell Telephone laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey, 1946-1947. Superintending scientist United States Navy Electronics Laboratory from 1948.
Fellow American Institute Electrical Engineers, American Physical Society, Accoustical Society of America, Society Motion Picture Engineers (fellow), American Geography Society. Member Sigma Xi.; Member Society of Friends.
Club: Wyoming Field (Milburn, New Jersey).
Married Milicent Arnold Harrison, June 20, 1914. Children: Katherine Hayward (Mistress Robert Gibney), Eleanor Taylor (Mistress Chas.