Jamie Cox Papers
Scope and Contents
Dates
- 1953-2014
Creator
Conditions Governing Access
Conditions Governing Use
Biographical / Historical
Radiation, Inc. was founded by Homer Denius and George Shaw in 1950. The company was first located in an old naval building at the Melbourne Airport. Facilities were quickly expanded in Melbourne, and later added in Palm Bay, FL and Orlando, FL. When Radiation, Inc. merged with Harris-Intertype in 1967, the company had over 3,000 employees. Radiation, Inc. focused on developing PCM telemetry systems, digital data acquisition systems, and tracking antennas. They were contracted by entities such as Bell Telephone Laboratories, NASA, and the U.S. military. Some prominent projects Radiation, Inc. worked on include: Courier, Igloo White, Mark V (TSC-54), Nimbus, and Telstar.
Extent
2.49 Cubic Feet (7 letter-sized archival document boxes)
14.85 Gigabytes (7 discs)
Overview
Arrangement
Series 1: Documents Subseries A: Administrative Subseries B: History Subseries C: Technical
Series 2: Photographs Subseries A: Administrative Subseries B: Social Subseries C: Technical
Series 3: Publications Subseries A: Administrative Subseries B: Historical Subseries C: Media Subseries: D: Technical
Series 4: Digital Media
Series 5: Three-Dimensional Objects
- Aerial photogrammetry
- Animal Radio Tracking
- Antennas (Electronics)
- Artificial satellites in telecommunication
- Boyd, J. A. (Joseph Aubrey)
- Cape Canaveral (Fla)
- Electrical Engineering
- Engineers
- Florida Institute of Technology
- Hartley, John T.
- Igloo White
- Melbourne (Fla.)
- Nimbus Project (U.S)
- Orlando (Fla)
- Palm Bay (Fla)
- Project Telstar
- Pulse Code Modulation
- Radio Engineers
- Radio Telemetry
- Radio, Military
- Satellite Dish Antennas
- Short wave radio, High frequency radio
- TIROS Satellites
- Telecommunication
Creator
- Amis, A. B., III (Alphonso Bobbet), 1928-2018 (Person)
- Cox, M. L., III (Marcus Lafayette, "Mel"), 1926-2002 (Person)
- Hamner, George ("Gant"), 1928-2010 (Person)
- LaCapra, John, 1921-2000 (Person)
- Penn, Raymond Hollen, 1927-2014 (Person)
- Whitman, John G., Jr., 1927-2010 (Person)
- Williams, Lavergne ("Verne"), 1918-2010 (Person)
- Title
- Collection Guide of the Jamie Cox Papers
- Status
- In Progress
- Author
- Veronica Birmingham, C. DeSimone
- Date
- Oct. 2019
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections Repository
307 Evans Library
Florida Institute of Technology
150 West University Blvd.
Melbourne FL 32901-6975 USA
(321) 674-8571
(321) 724-2559 (Fax)
archives@fit.edu