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Frederick Vinton Hunt

1905 - 1972

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Frederick Hunt worked at Harvard, and was an educator, scientist and inventor. He contributed substantially to numerous aspects of acoustics and communications and is especially associated with the underwater sound laboratory established at Harvard during WWII.

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For a long oral history, see "Oral History Transcript — Dr. Frederick Hunt," American Institute of Physics, http://www.aip.org/history/ohilist/4688_2.html (accessed 01/07/2015)
See "HUG 4458 - Papers of Frederick V. Hunt : an inventory," Harvard University Archives, http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~hua14001 (accessed 01/07/2015)
Technical Memorandum No. 64: Signal-Rate Processing for Transit Detection: 1. Experimental Test Equipment for a Time Scaled Model
Electroacoustics: The Ananysis of Transduction, and its Historical Background
HP6A: A Radical Departure in Phonograph Pick-up Design
Acoustics Research Laboratory Final Report: 1946-1970
Origins in Acoustics: The Science of Sound from Antiquity to the Age of Newton
Applied Acoustics in Subsurface Warfare

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