Many were the foremost engineers and scientists whose pioneering
studies and researches in the several fields of the science
and technology contributed so much for the development of
new inventions and innovations in Electronics applied to warlike
end. Amongst the main names they are:
Alec Reeves
1901-1971, professor of the Imperial College in London
and, later engineer of the W. Electric International.
He developed a process of pulse modulation as well as
in 1937 he invented a radar system known under the codename
of OBOE.
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Ernest
Krammar
Born in Austria in 1902. He started to work in the Lorenz
Society in 1921 when occupied the position of director
of the department of navigation. He developed a radio
navigational system known as ELECTRA. |
Henri Busignes
Engineer of the Federal Telecomunication Laboratories
elected president of the company in 1949. A prolific engineer
as during his career he was granted with 140 patents mainly
in the field of radio navigation. In 1941, he invented
the inertial navigation system. |
Lloyd Espenschied
Born in 1889. He was a physicist and, started to work
very early in the company United Wireless Telegraph. After
two years of study in the Pratt Institute, he was hired
as assistant engineer in the Telefunken Company in the
U.S.A. In 1918, he did the first telephonic connection
between Baltimore and Pittsburgh, U.S.A. In 1929, he developed
a carrying current system using coaxial cables. |
Luis Walter Álvarez
Born in 1911. Formerly, professor in the University
of California and Nobel Prize of Physics in 1968. In
1942, working in the Institute of Technology of Mssachusetts,
he developed the GCA system - ground control approach
system.
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Robert Watson-Watt
Born in 1892, he worked as professor in the university
of Dundee in Scotland. Later director for radio researches,
of the National Physical Laboratory. In 1942, he was
elected member of scientific council for the telecommunications
area related with the British government. He is considered
the father of the RADAR
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