Chronicles Buttner's career in radio and electronics engineering, including his WWI work with the Naval Dept. on arc continuous wave generators; his work as an engineer with Bell Telephone Laboratories; and his subsequent associations with International Marine Radio Corp. (England), ITT, Federal Telecommunications Laboratories, and Hewlett-Packard. Also includes an account of his undergraduate career in electrical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, and his association with Charles Litton of Litton Laboratories Chronicles Buttner's career in radio and electronics engineering, including his WWI work with the Naval Dept. on arc continuous wave generators; his work as an engineer with Bell Telephone Laboratories; and his subsequent associations with International Marine Radio Corp. (England), ITT, Federal Telecommunications Laboratories, and Hewlett-Packard. Also includes an account of his undergraduate career in electrical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, and his association with Charles Litton of Litton Laboratories