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Walter Lincoln Hawkins

CTL-E-1102 · Institution · other · unspecified

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

Walter Lincoln Hawkins, the first African American scientist on the Bell Labs technical staff (1942), developed durable plastic sheathing for telephone cables that greatly extended cable life.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from TECH-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-TECH-001:TECH-E-105; source research type(s): None. Era not present in source research record(s); marked unspecified pending human review.

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