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John Renshaw Carson
John J. Carty
AT&T Chief Engineer
AT&T / Bell System · Bell Telephone · Western Electric | Associates: Harold D. Arnold, Enos M. Barton, George Ashley Campbell, John Renshaw Carson, Lee de Forest, Ralph Hartley, Frank B. Jewett, Bancroft Gherardi Jr., Mihajlo Pupin, Theodore Vail, Thomas B. Doolittle
John Joseph Carty (April 14, 1861 – December 27, 1932) was an American electrical engineer and a major contributor to the development of telephone wires and related technology. He was a recipient of the Edison Medal. As Chief Engineer of AT&T, he was instrumental in the development of the first transcontinental telephone line. Carty was president of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers from 1915 to 1916.
He died at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore on December 27, 1932.
Edward Longstreth Medal of the Franklin Institute (1905)
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