Let me start off by saying that I'm sure everyone would say Dave is their Electronics Hero! That goes without saying, but I said it anyway
So, other than Dave, who is YOUR electronics hero?
Mine is Dale Heatherington, co-founder of Hayes Modems...
http://www.wa4dsy.com/robot/home/about
I would also vote the Thomas Edison , but if I think about electronics with a more wider view,
then my own true hero are the company called as " Royal
Philips Electronics " .
And their product line stamped with the logo :
Made in Germany.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philips
William Shockley, despite the whole "eugenics" thing.
Chuck Peddle & Steve Wozniak
Non. I don't believe in this personal hero nonsense, and make sure school doesn't implant this nonsense in my kid's head.
Not even someone like Jim Williams or Pease? Or maybe Widlar, he might be more your kind of guy :p
No, they do great work, but I don't have any heroes.
Has to be Tesla and Bob Pease. With Edison I'm always reminded of the Tesla quote about him, to experiment blindly never seemed like the true engineering way...
Tesla: "If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search. I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety percent of his labor."
I don't have a specific hero but here's a list of potential candidates:
Howard Vollum
Bill Hewlett
Dave packard
John Fluke
Jim Williams
Bob Widlar
Bob Pease
Willi Studer
Heinrich Hertz
-Died a slow horrible death though
Harold Black, Alan Blumlein, Harry Nyquist, & Charles Steinmetz.
Not sure about the hero thing, but circuit girl can save me any time she wishes.
Of course Nikola Tesla, read these:
- 1898, he was demonstrating to the world the first remote controlled model boat at Madison Square Garden.
- At the beginning of World War I, Tesla proposed the use of energy waves to detect German submarines (known today as RADAR). Thomas Edison rejected his idea as ludicrous.
- Tesla was offered $50,000 to improve some of Edison's ideas, but when he delivered, Edison claimed that he had only been "joking," and refused to pay him.
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Internet, Phone.. its all Teslas ideas..
Its neck & neck between Ernest Fisk & Fritz Langford-Smith.
Bet you've never heard of either of them!
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Nikola Tesla
One can only wonder what he would have come up with if his work had continued.
aww, noone picked MacGyver
Georg Simon Ohm (1789 – 1854), He brought law to the wild weird world of the electrons.....
(Both) hands up for Tesla!
My former Boss, A powerful gentleman from Nordic area.
He always able to find new and effective idea....
Bob Pease, Bob Widlar, Jeri Ellsworth and Limor Fried.
Of course, my professors, Marshall Leach, John Matthews, and Thomas Brewer.
Finally, two gentlemen named Mark Furches and Howard Ekey, who taught me everything I know about vehicle harness design and manufacturing support in a factory environment.
Has anyone said Charles Proteus Steinmetz?
michael faraday
Charles Babbage