Albert Wiley Friend

Background

Friend, Albert Wiley was born on January 24, 1910 in Morgantown, West Virginia, United States. Son of Lemuel Ellsworth and Louisa Gertrude (Michael) Friend.

Education

Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, West Virginia University, 1932, Master of Science, 1936. South Dakot, Harvard 1948.

Career

Engineer, Ohio Power Company, 1933-1934. From instructor to assistant professor physics West Virginia University, 1934-1944. Instructor, research fellow, instructor Harvard (on leave West Virginia University), 1939-1942, 46-47.

Research associate, staff Radiation Laboratory, Radar School, technical director Heat Research Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute Technology, 1941-1944.

Research staff Radio Corporation of America, 1944-1951. Director engineering Daystrom, Incorporated., 1951.

Director engineering Magnetic Metals Company, 1951-1953. Construction engineering, physicist, 1953-1972.

President Amicon Corporation, Acoustex, Incorporated., 1968-1972, A.W. Friend Engineers Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania, 1965.

Consultant controls, electromagnetic isolation, tropoopheric radio echo phenomena. Research and development electronic color television system and equipment, also radar, guided missiles, telemetering, electronic computer components, magnetic materials and componenets, weather radar, lunar exploration communications, satellite communications systems, noise abatement, architectural acoustics, vibration et cetera

Achievements

• Albert Wiley Friend has been listed as a noteworthy consultant engineer, physicist by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Fellow I.E.E.E. (chairman technical committee recording and reproducing), American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Physical Society. Member Acoustical Society American, American Geophysical Union, Air Force Association, American Institute Physics, American Meteorological Society, American Ordnance Association, Harvard Engineers Society, American Ordnance Association, Harvard Engineers Society New York, Electrochemical Society, Franklin Institute, National, Pennsylvania societies professional engineers, Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Xi, Sigma Pi Sigma. Clubs: Engineers (Philadelphia).

Connections

Married Evelyn Augusta Hall, August 6, 1931. Children: Albert Wiley, Evelyn Joyce (Mistress William C. Everett), John Robert.

Father:

Lemuel Ellsworth Friend

Mother:

Louisa Gertrude (Michael) Friend

Spouse:

Evelyn Augusta Hall

child:

Albert Wiley Friend

child:

Evelyn Joyce Friend (Mistress William C. Everett)

child:

John Robert Friend