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Frank Baldwin Jewett

American engineer and executive
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Sept. 5, 1879, Pasadena, Calif., U.S.
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Nov. 18, 1949, Summit, N.J. (aged 70)
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Frank Baldwin Jewett (born Sept. 5, 1879, Pasadena, Calif., U.S.—died Nov. 18, 1949, Summit, N.J.) was a U.S. electrical engineer and the first president of the Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc., who directed research in telephony, telegraphy, and radio and television communications. After receiving the B.A. in 1898 from Throop Polytechnical Institute (now the California Institute of Technology) and the Ph.D. in 1902 from the University of Chicago, Jewett taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge. In 1904 he began work with the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, where he designed long-distance telephone lines, including a transcontinental line from New ...(100 of 235 words)

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