William Elvin Jackson (1904–1972)[1] was an aviation electronics engineer who contributed to the fields of aeronautical navigation, communications and air traffic control.
[4] Jackson was the editor of "The Federal Airways System," a publication of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) that traces 40 years of technical engineering achievements that enabled the prevalence of air transportation in public inter-city, intercontinental and international private and business travel.
[5] William Jackson graduated from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.
He early acquired an enduring devotion for English 49, but his real hobby is staying up until four A.M. Bill may usually be discovered confounding with the electrical engineering professors with some new problem on radiation resistance.
Some day, Bill, we hope to see your name in the magazine of American Radio Engineers as the foremost advancer of that pastime, during the century.In the mid-1920s, Jackson, while living in Schenectady, New York, was a central part of a worldwide group of thousands of experimenting wireless engineers, referred to as "hams".