Edwin Harold Newman (1919-2010)
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Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 90-105, Science Service Records, Image No. SIA2009-0506
Edwin Harold Newman (1919-2010), NBC News journalist, demonstrates the "compact belt-borne AIL [Airborne Instruments Laboratory] Radio Broadcast Microphone" that he would be wearing while covering the August 1968 political party conventions in Chicago and Miami. The system, newly developed by Cutler-Hammer's Airborne Instruments Laboratory for broadcast networks, provided wireless, portable, battery-operated two-way communication between the reporter and the network director in the booth.
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 90-105, Science Service Records, Image No. SIA2009-0506
Smithsonian Institution Archives Capital Gallery, Suite 3000, MRC 507; 600 Maryland Avenue, SW; Washington, DC 20024-2520
Black-and-white photographs
SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2009-0506]
Gelatin silver prints