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The Milestone proposal requires a minimum of five references to establish the dates, location, and importance of the achievement.  I don't see evidence of this.  Was this sent to the IEEE History Center?
The Milestone proposal requires a minimum of five references to establish the dates, location, and importance of the achievement.  I don't see evidence of this in the proposalPlease confirm.


Jason Hui, Milestone Subcommittee Chair
Jason Hui, Milestone Subcommittee Chair

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Plaque Location -- CSchlombs (talk) 13:00, 1 May 2018 (UTC)

Dear Sidney,

Thank you so much for submitting this milestone honoring the piezoelectric inventions as the Wesleyan Labs. I have some questions about the location of the plaque. The meeting room you propose for the plaque location -- what kind of meeting room is it, and how publicly accessible is it? Also, why is the meeting room proposed for the plaque location, not the original lab building?

Suggested revisions to citation -- Administrator4 (talk) 13:26, 1 May 2018 (UTC)

I would recommend revising the citation to:

In 1921, Professor Walter Guyton Cady designed the first circuit to control frequencies based on a quartz crystal resonator, and recognized that the circuit could be used as a standard of frequency, a filter, or as a coupling device between circuits. Cady’s research at Wesleyan was fundamental to the development of ultrasonics, sonar, quartz time standards, radar, and myriad other areas.

Letter from Vacek Miglus concerning plaque location -- Sidneylang (talk) 07:47, 2 May 2018 (UTC)

The proposed room was originally described as a meeting room however it is much more. It is used extensively by students as a study space. This includes the obvious population from physics but it is popular among students from many disciplines. It is also a space that houses mailboxes for faculty, staff, graduate and undergraduate physics students and as such is visited on a regular basis. The room is open and used all day and night whenever classes are in session. During the summer months the room is closed at night. There proposed location of the plaque is facing the passanger elevators so it would be hard for any visitor to miss. The room was named in Professor Cady’s honor. It was dedicated by his students on the anniversary of his 100th birthday that he was planning to attend. Unfortunatly things didn’t quite work out for him to attend.

> One of the concerns of the History Committee is that plaques be mounted at locations that are publicly accessible as well as well-guarded--and to find the right balance between the two (which sometimes are mutually exclusive). Often, it is preferable to have a plaque be mounted in an entry hall or on the outside of a building, to allow easier public access to the plaque. Would such an alternative location be possible in this case?

There is an alternate location available. It is the building that physics was housed in during the time that Cady was at Wesleyan. It would have been my first preference if there was any remaining sign of the sort of work that was done there from 1903 to 1969. It is now, to quote their webpage “The Allbritton Center is the hub of civic engagement at Wesleyan. We study public life, actively partner with the local and regional community, and teach practical skills for social impact.” a building very much focused on the humanities and I have a hard time envisioning the visitors there to have any interest in the work that Professor Cady did. I believe the level of receptive engagement from visitors as well as the Wesleyan population would be much higher if the plaque was displayed in the Cady Lounge.

Furthermore, the plaque would tend to disappear among all the present signage and other distractions in the former Scott Laboratories, now Allbritton Center, unless mounted to the exterior where security becomes more of an issue than indoors.

I have posted notated photographs of possible locations, both indoor as well as outdoor at Allbritton as well as the proposed location In the Cady Lounge. Possible plaque locations are in the green circles. (with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one)(1)

http://vmiglus.site.wesleyan.edu/w_g_cady/

E-mail addresses of contacts at Wesleyan University -- Sidneylang (talk) 07:50, 2 May 2018 (UTC)

Prof. Vacek Miglus vmiglus@wesleyan.edu

Prof. Greg Voth gvoth@wesleyan.edu

Required References -- Jason.k.hui (talk) 16:26, 7 May 2019 (UTC)

The Milestone proposal requires a minimum of five references to establish the dates, location, and importance of the achievement. I don't see evidence of this in the proposal. Please confirm.

Jason Hui, Milestone Subcommittee Chair