Abstract :
Alfred C. Beck was born in Granville, N. Y., on July 26, 1905. He received the E.E. degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1927. During the summers of 1926 and 1927 he worked in the Test Department of the New York Edison Company on various electric power projects, and through the academic year, 1927-1928, he was an instructor in mathematics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Graduate courses in communications during that year, and experience as a radio amateur (W2AGG), convinced him that his interests were along the lines of radio communication.
