Description: Bell Labs, Cliffwood, NJ, 1928-29. Standing, left to right: C.R. Englund, Lewis R. Lowry, A.C. Beck, W. (Warren) Mutch, Karl B. Feldman, H. (Harald) T. Friis. Sitting, left to right: M. Collins, S.E. Reed, A. (Art) B. Crawford, E. Bruce. …
Description: Christmas 1933 family gathering in Chevy Chase, MD. Back row: Karl, Nelson, Marguerite, Curtis, Muriel. Front row: Anne Moreau, Alice, "Little" Marguerite.
Description: Christmas 1933, 6510 Maple Ave. Note on back of photo says, “Nelson & Muriel; Karl Alice and Anne Moreau; MSJ, Curtis, Marguerite." NB: This photo appears as Fig. 33 in the Jansky family photos in Serendipitous Discoveries in Radio Astronomy,…
Description: Karl G. Jansky (1905-1950) discovered radio waves emanating from the Milky Way while he was investigating trans-Atlantic radiotelephone interference for Bell Laboratories between 1928-1933. In this photo from the early 1930s, members of the Bell…
Description: Karl Jansky and his son, David. David is ca. 9 years old in this photograph. It is believed to have been taken by Karl's wife, and may be the only color photo of Karl and David Jansky.
Description: Alice Jansky, Karl Jansky, Marguerite (Sis) Jansky Froscher, C.T. Froscher. Photo taken at the lookout point overlooking Sandy Hook Bay, Highlands NJ, mid 1940s
Description: Sailing in Back Bay, MD (off Chesapeake Bay): Marguerite Jansky (Moreau Jansky’s daughter, Karl Jansky’s niece) and Karl G. Jansky, ca. 1948
Description: Bell Labs photo – historic marker for site of Jansky’s discovery of radio waves, held by two unidentified men. David Jansky thinks they are probably Bell Labs employees. Horn antenna used by Penzias and Wilson in the background.
Description: The Jansky home, 57 Silverton Ave, Little Silver NJ. Mid-1940s, probably ~1947. The house behind belonged to Russell Olds, and the one to the right belonged to the Feldmans; both men worked at Bell Labs.
Description: Dan and Sybilla Weigand. They were neighbors across the street from the Janskys. The Jansky house is in the background in this photo. Dan Weigand was an attorney. David describes the Weigands as a “second set of parents” to him.
Description: Karl Jansky, working at Bell Telephone Laboratories in Holmdel, NJ, in 1928, wanted to investigate using "short waves" (wavelengths of about 10-20 meters) for transatlantic radio telephone service. Jansky was assigned the job of investigating the…
