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STUART LAWRENCE BAILEY
1905-1984
BY ALEXANDER H. FLAX
STUART LAWRENCE BAILEY former presiclent of Tanaka and
Bailey, Inc., anct vice-presiclent of the Atiantic Research Cor-
poration until his retirement in 1970, ctied on August Il.
1984, at the age of seventy-eight. Bailey was known for his
outstanding personal contributions and pioneering work in
three main areas: (~) the development of air navigation radio
aids; (2) radio signal propagation measurements, which were
applied to the design and location of broadcasting stations;
(3) the development of transmission standards for service
and interference in AM and FM radio and in television
broadcasting.
Stuart Bailey was born on October 7, 1905, in Minneapolis,
Minnesota. He received a B.S. in electrical engineering from
the University of Minnesota in 1927 and an M.S. in electrical
engineering the following year. As an undergraduate, he was
active on the staff of W9XT, an experimental radio station at
the university. During his graduate work, Bailey was the chief
engineer of radio station WEB, which was ownect and oper-
atecl by the university. It was also (luring these years at the
University of Minnesota that Bailey met C. M. Jansky, who
was later to play a major role in his professional and personal
life.
Bailey spent three years (1928-1930) in Minnesota work-
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MEMORIAL TRIBUTES
ing for the U.S. Department of Commerce as a radio engi-
neer in the Lighthouse Service and Airways Division. In
1929 he went to Panama to install two automatic marine ra-
dio beacons, one at the entrance to Cristobal Harbor and the
other at Cape Mala, 120 miles south of Balboa.
In 1930 his former professor C. M. {ansky contacted him
and together they founded Jansky & Bailey, Inc., which pio-
neered many advances in radio technology over the years. It
completes] some early work on directional antennas and
helped map UHF educational television networks for twenty-
one different states. Between 1938 and 1946 the company
built and subsequently operated the nation's third and
Washington's first FM radio station, W3XO, which is
WINX-FM.
Stuart Bailey was president of Jansky & Bailey, Inc., from
1953 to 1959, when the company was acquired by Atlantic
Research Corporation. He continuer! working for Atlantic
Research until 1970, when he retired as the vice-president
and general manager of its electronics and communications
division. He continued working as a consultant to the firm
for the next ten years.
Stuart Bailey was an excellent organizer and the leader of
numerous engineering projects ant] investigations. He dis-
playecl exceptional leadership and organizational skills clur-
ing World War II in connection with radio frequency anti-
jamming practices. After the war, he was a member of
various advisory committees dealing with color television, ra-
dio propagation, and telecommunications in general.
During World War IT Bailey was put in charge of all gov-
ernment contract work performed by Jansky & Bailey, Inc.,
a great deal of which was done uncler the U.S. Office of
Scientific Research and Development. This work involved a
detailed study of all the factors that affect mobile, short-
range radio communication, a stucly of the effects of hills and
trees as obstructions to radio transmission from 4 to ~ 16 me-
gacycles, anct a detailect analysis of electronic equipment to
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determine those characteristics that are important to its op-
eration by the armed services.
In addition, under a Signal Corps contract, Bailey super-
visect the firm's work on the measurement of many existing
and proposed radio antennas for use by the armed forces.
He participated in determining the levels of vulnerability to
radio transmission jamming of particular pieces of U.S. and
captured enemy equipment and also helped to develop
methods of reducing the vulnerability levels. In June 1947
Mr. Bailey receiver! a citation from the secretaries of war and
navy for his contributions to the U.S. Office of Scientific Re-
search and Development.
Bailey's outstanding achievements included his work for
IBM Corporation on the "radio-electric typewriter" in the
late 1930s and his assistance to Bell Telephone Laboratories
in its selection of the National Raclio Astronomy Observatory
site in Green Bank, West Virginia. During the 1950s he
worked on the Dual-ex system of mobile radio teletype digi-
tal record communication (the genesis of the Teleproducts
Test Equipment Division, which has become a division of At-
lantic Research Corporation). He assisted in the cievelop-
ment of transmission standards for the broadcast industry in
cooperation with the Federal Communications Commission
and also supervised a multiyear tropical signal propagation
measuring program in Thailand for the Advancecl Research
Projects Agency of the U.S. Department of Defense.
Stuart Bailey was active in the Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers (lEEE), becoming an associate mem-
ber in 192S, a member in 1936, a senior member in 193S,
and a fellow in that same year. He served as the treasurer of
{EKE in 194S, 1961, and 1962 and was elected! its president
in 1949. He was also a member of the board of directors
from 1943 to 1955 and from 196 ~ to 1962.
Mr. Bailey was an active participant in numerous in(lus-
trial, governmental, and international committees relating to
FM transmission standards, television, propagation in all
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ranges of the spectrum, and proposals for regulation.
He was consistently well prepared and well informed on the
issues, and as a result, he was always an active, intelligent
contributor. The work of these committees invariably per-
tained to highly technical matters, the sense and an under-
standing of which Bailey was always able to convey in clear,
concise language, thus commanding the respect of his
fellows.
Stuart Bailey served on the executive committee of the
U.S. National Committee of the International Scientific Ra-
dio Union. He was chairman of the American Standards As-
sociation Sectional Committee on Radio (C-16) from 1953 to
1954 and a member of the board of the Engineer's Joint
Council from 1964 to 1966. He was elected to the National
Academy of Engineering in 1973 for "outstanding pioneer-
ing work in radio signal propagation measurements and
their application to station design and location." Other hon-
ors bestowed on him included the Outstanding Achievement
Awarcl from the University of Minnesota in 1956 for "leacl-
ership in development of ractio and television." The univer-
sity further recognized him as a "worldwide leacler in the de-
velopment of radio and television, ever striving to perfect the
stanclards of radio engineering."
lust before being hospitalized in 1984, Stuart Bailey at-
tended the IEEE's centennial celebration in Boston, where he
received the Centennial Gold Mecial Award for "extraorcti-
nary achievement deserving of special recognition." Bailey
was a member of Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi, anti Eta Kappa Nu.
In ad(lition, he belonged to the Cosmos Club anti the Broad-
cast Pioneers. He was a registered professional engineer in
the District of Columbia.
Stuart Bailey has been described as a man who loved life
and lived it to the fullest. He was a gentle man and treated
his employees with a respect that inspired their confidence
and loyalty. His family meant a great clear to him, and he
maintained strong ties with them. His wife, Carol Sue Bailey,
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ctied in 1980. He is survived by his brother Richard Bailey
and sister Dorothy Thomas.
Stuart Bailey will be remembered ,foncIly by the numerous
friends he maintained through his professional, church, and
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civic activities.
This tribute is based on biographical materials that appeared in the
professional, technical, and general press. It was written by the NAE
Membership Office under the editorial direction of the academy's
home secretary.
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