- Collection:
- University of West Georgia Oral History Interviews
- Title:
- Interview with Mr. Norman Watkins Part 1, 1981 October 1
- Creator:
- House, Myron W.
- Contributor to Resource:
- Watkins, Norman
- Date of Original:
- 1981-10-01
- Subject:
- Teachers--Georgia
Emory University
College students--Georgia
United States. Army. Signal Corps
Watkins, Norman--Interviews
Aeronautics, Military--Communication systems - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Carroll County, Carrollton, 33.58011, -85.07661
United States, Georgia, Carroll County, Whitesburg, 33.494, -84.91383 - Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Type:
- Sound
- Format:
- audio/mpeg
- Description:
- Oral history interview with Norman Watkins. Part 1 of 2. He talks about working on his family's farm as a child and attending Emory University for two years. He then went on to work as a teacher, principal, and basketball coach in the 1920s. Watkins also discusses his time in the army, going through signal school, learning Morse code, and his experience in the first ground-to-air and air-to-ground communications experiments.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:uwg_ohi_oh0021-01
- Digital Object URL:
- https://ohms.galileo.usg.edu/viewer.php?cachefile=dlg/uwg/oh0021-01.xml
- Language:
- eng
- Original Collection:
- Myron House oral history collection, Annie Belle Weaver Special Collection, University of West Georgia
- Holding Institution:
- University of West Georgia. Special Collections
- Rights:
-