Harold DeForest Arnold

Harold DeForest Arnold (born September 3, 1883, Woodstock, Connecticut, U.S.—died July 10, 1933, Summit, New Jersey) was an American physicist whose research led to the development of long-distance telephony and radio communication. Arnold studied at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, where he received a Ph.B. (1906) and a M.S. (1907), and in 1911 he earned a doctorate at the University of Chicago. While working for the Western Electric Company, he developed and designed the manufacturing...