David Hosom papers
Scope and Content Note
The papers consist of nine notebooks kept by David Hosom when he worked as an electrical engineer with the Alvin Group for 6 years, mainly with Skip Marquet and Arnold Sharp.
Dates
- Creation: 1971-1977
Language of Materials
The records are in
English.
Access
Open: materials are available for research.
Use
Copyright: Permission to publish material from the collection must be authorized by the Institution Archivist.
Biographical Information
David Hosom is a Principal Engineer for the Physical Oceanography Department at WHOI. He specializes in Systems engineering, project management, and electrical design for ocean related instrumentation; electrical power systems for underwater vehicles, buoys, and ships. His special interest is low power, high reliability, accuracy, flexibility, and modular designs for instrumentation.
Extent
2 boxes (.75 lin. ft.)
Overview
The David Hosom papers consist of nine notebooks kept by Hosom when he worked as an electrical engineer with the Alvin Group.
Custodial History
The papers were with related Alvin reports and files when donated to the Data Library and Archives by Arnold Sharp.
Acquisitions Information
Received from Arnold Sharp, Senior Engineer in the AOPE department, on July 29, 1998 as acc.1998-16.
Processing Information
First-level processing completed by Marisa Hudspeth on December 4, 1998. The papers were removed from the rest of the material in acc.1998-16 and processed as a separate collection.
- Title
- A Guide to the David Hosom papers, 1971-1977
- Author
- Marisa Hudspeth
- Date
- December 4, 2003
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written inEnglish
Repository Details
Part of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Data Library and Archives Repository