Electrical Engineering Hall of Fame: Oliver E. Buckley [Scanning Our Past]

In 1954, the American Institute of Electrical Engineers (AIEE) selected Oliver E. Buckley as the recipient of the Edison medal. He was cited "for his contributions to the science and art which have made possible a transatlantic telephone cable." The citation also noted his "wise leadership of a great industrial laboratory" and his "outstanding services to the government of his country". Buckley spent most of his professional career with the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T). Early in his career, he was an active participant in laboratory research on vacuum-tube amplifiers and was the inventor of an ionization manometer. In his later years, he became a research manager and served for a decade as president of the Bell Telephone Laboratories.