Abstract :
The Institute of Radio Engineers announces with regret the deaths of Walter Everett Chadbourne and Thomas Leo Murphy. Mr. Chadbourne was born in Waterboro, Maine, in 1882 and spent most of his early years in Dorchester, Massachusetts. He attended the Mechanic Arts High School, and later Massachusetts Institute of Technology, from which he received the degree of Bachelor of Science in Naval Architecture. Thereafter he studied electrical engineering at the Lowell Institute. After working for a short time with the Edison Company, he entered the radio field. He worked with Mr. Fessenden of the National Electrical Signaling Company for some years at Brant Rock, and then with the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company in New York. While with the latter company, he went to Europe to study radio stations. In September, 1914, Mr. Chadbourne was assigned as Expert Radio Aide of the United States Navy to Charlestown Navy Yard. Apparatus of his design was used in the Naval stations. While still engaged in this work in May, 1918, Mr. Chadbourne fell ill and died. He was well known to radio workers in the United States, and was an Associate Member of The Institute of Radio Engineers. Mr. Murphy was one of the early workers in radio in the United States Navy, and did much to further the development of radio for naval uses. He was affiliated with The Institute of Radio Engineers as an Associate Member. While serving as a Radio Gunner in the Navy, he was seriously injured in a seaplane accident at Ravenna, Italy, on September 15, 1918. From the effects of these injuries he later died.
