Harold Bishop (engineer)
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Sir Harold Bishop CBE (1900–1983) was a British broadcasting engineer. He was president of the Institution of Electrical Engineers for 1953-54.[1]
He helped organize broadcasts by SHAEF.[2] He was Chief Engineer at the BBC, where from 1952 to 1956 his title was Director of Technical Services and from 1956 to 1963 Director of Engineering. [3][4]
He was knighted in 1955. [5]
Notes
- ^ Turner, L. W. (22 October 2013). Electronics Engineer's Reference Book. Butterworth-Heinemann. ISBN 9781483161273.
- ^ Spragg, Dennis M. (1 September 2017). Glenn Miller Declassified. U of Nebraska Press. ISBN 9781612348957.
- ^ Briggs, Asa (1995). The History of Broadcasting in the United Kingdom: Volume IV: Sound and Vision. OUP Oxford. ISBN 9780192129673.
- ^ "Recollections of BBC engineering from 1922 to 1997". BBC. Retrieved 6 February 2018.
- ^ "No. 40497". The London Gazette (Supplement). 3 June 1955. p. 3257.
References
- Baker, Anne Pimlott. "Bishop, Sir Harold". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/65412. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)