Linear magnetron traveling wave tube
Charles K. Birdsall and Lester M. Field
U.S. Patent 2,896,117. July 1959

Ram jet projectile
David H. Sloan and Wilbur H. Goss
U.S. Patent 2,892,410. June 1959

Traveling-wave tube
Charles K. Birdsall and Samuel Sensiper
U.S. Patent 2,889,487. June 1959

Microwave tube
Charles K. Birdsall and Lester M. Field
U.S. Patent 2,885,641. May 1959

Ion source unit for calutron
David H. Sloan, Hubert P. Yockey and Fred H. Schmidt
U.S. Patent 2,882,406. April 1959

Low-noise microwave tube
Thomas E. Everhart and Charles K. Birdsall
U.S. Patent 2,870,367. January 1959