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Offline rolycat

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Re: Important Electronics Engineers from the past (or present)
« Reply #25 on: November 15, 2013, 09:36:42 pm »
Quote from: Rory on November 15, 2013, 09:20:41 pm
Carl Jung also.

Carl Jung?  :o

What the blue blazes has Carl Jung got to do with electronics engineering?

You don't mean Walter Jung, do you?

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Offline Rory

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Re: Important Electronics Engineers from the past (or present)
« Reply #26 on: November 15, 2013, 09:46:14 pm »
Quote from: rolycat on November 15, 2013, 09:36:42 pm
Quote from: Rory on November 15, 2013, 09:20:41 pm
Carl Jung also.

Carl Jung?  :o

What the blue blazes has Carl Jung got to do with electronics engineering?

You don't mean Walter Jung, do you?

Thank you. I had to go look on my bookshelf. Walter it is. (Try pulling obscure names out of the air when you've been crimping pins for D-sub connectors all day and you'll make mistakes too... ;)
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Re: Important Electronics Engineers from the past (or present)
« Reply #27 on: November 16, 2013, 04:34:41 am »
Willy Wonka
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Re: Important Electronics Engineers from the past (or present)
« Reply #28 on: November 16, 2013, 04:52:55 am »
Melville Eastham - founder of General Radio.
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Re: Important Electronics Engineers from the past (or present)
« Reply #29 on: November 16, 2013, 05:07:14 am »
Quote from: smashedProton on November 16, 2013, 04:34:41 am
Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple.
That's 105%!
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Re: Important Electronics Engineers from the past (or present)
« Reply #30 on: November 16, 2013, 05:11:57 am »
Quote from: rolycat on November 16, 2013, 05:07:14 am
Quote from: smashedProton on November 16, 2013, 04:34:41 am
Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple.
That's 105%!

Well in that case, perhaps it's not butterscotch that he has.
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Offline moepower

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Re: Important Electronics Engineers from the past (or present)
« Reply #31 on: November 16, 2013, 05:31:29 am »
Hi, though I'm strictly not electronics, but more electrical, my list is:

Charles Steinmetz - contributions in ac power theory
Nikola Tesla - ac power, 3-phase ac motors, transformers.
James Maxwell Michael Faraday - physicists in electromagnetic theory
AC transformer development -  Károly Zipernowsky, Ottó Bláthy, Miksa Déri,  Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky, William Stanley - there's probably more.
Transistor development - too many to list.
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Re: Important Electronics Engineers from the past (or present)
« Reply #32 on: November 16, 2013, 09:07:52 am »
I stumbled across this the other day

well worth the watch  :-+
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Re: Important Electronics Engineers from the past (or present)
« Reply #33 on: November 16, 2013, 09:39:52 am »
I owe a great debt to W.S Ibbetson B.Sc. A.M.I.E.E it was reading his book motor and dynamo control theory and practice 1921, that first got me interested in electricity and electronics and as he was writing for people who had not come across electrical equipment before he explained the theory in a way that a 9 year old in the early 1960's could very easily understand.
My next favorite is F.J.Camm whose 1934 book Television and short-wave radio got me into radio.
I still have both those books which I picked up at Heffers second hand book shop.
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