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The Catgut Acoustical Society Library |
| File #: | S8415 |
| Name: | Stetson, Karl A |
| Dates: | b. 1937 |
| See also: | A4270 - Agren, Carl Hugo |
| General Information: |
| Karl Stetson came to 112 Essex and introduced the idea of using hologaphic interferometry for studing |
| violin plates to CMH in the late 60's. He had graduated from Lowell Technological Institute and then did |
| an MS degree at the University of Michigan, where he got into holographic work. In 1967 he received a |
| grant to work at the Royal Institute of Technology and subsequently obtained his doctorate in 1969. He |
| then spent two years at the National Physics Lab in Teddington, England, followed by two years at the |
| Ford Motor Co in Dearborn, MI, and ever since as a senior research engineer in optics and acoustics at |
| United Aircraft in Connecticut. (See File 102 for a detailed biography.) Throughout these years he wrote |
| articles for the CASNL (See File 103) and made numerous holographic studies of violin plates for CMH |
| sending photos back to Montclair. (Examples may be found in File 104.) He made studies of guitars with |
| Karl Hugo Agren as well. |
| File Contents: |
| S8415 | -- | 101 |
| Correspondence (1967-1981) with CMH |
| Key Words: |
| S8415 | -- | 102 |
| Miscellaneous: Resume of Stetson, 2 newspaper article and 2 magazine articles on his work. |
| Key Words: |
| S8415 | -- | 103 |
| Technical: 17 published papers on holography and applications. See Technical Summary. |
| Key Words: | Holograms; interferometry |
| S8415 | -- | 104 |
| Technical: Misc drafts of tech papers; copy of guitar hologram; tech notes with drawings; 4 envelopes |
| of photos of violin plate holograms and |
| 3 pages of photos comparing holograms of thick, thin and arched plates. Also, 5 papers by other |
| authors on holography. |
| Key Words: | Holograms; interferometry |