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From: Tim Wescott on 22 Dec 2009 13:27 On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:03:01 -0800, John Larkin wrote: > On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:32:31 -0800 (PST), Bill Sloman > <bill.sloman(a)ieee.org> wrote: > >>http://www.analog- europe.com/212700488;jsessionid=2EYNK2XDSG2HZQE1GHOSKHWATMY32JVN?pgno=1 >> >>George Philbrick >>Bernard Gordon >>Jim Solomon >>Barrie Gilbert >>Bob J. Widlar >>Bob Pease >>Jim Williams >>Dennis Monticelli >>Tom Hornak >> >>pity about >> >>Alan Dower Blumlein >> >>apparently the fact that he never worked in the USA means that inventing >>the first practical televison and stereo systems doesn't count. He had >>128 patents when he died when a bomber carring a protoptye of the H2S >>radar crashed on landing in 1942. > > I'd question Bob Pease and especially Jim Williams. Jim mostly does > appnotes and magazine articles, and his stuff is a tad klunky at that. > He's more of an energetic technician. What I tell every starry-eyed newbie engineer that comes my way: You don't get credit for being _good_, you get credit for being _recognized_ as being good. How well you are recognized goes something like (self PR)(real goodness); since even a slob has a teeny bit of real goodness about him someplace, an energetically self-promoting slob will be recognized over a genius wallflower every time. So blow your own damn horn, and take those 'top ten' lists with a grain of salt. -- www.wescottdesign.com
From: Joel Koltner on 22 Dec 2009 13:38 "Tim Wescott" <tim(a)seemywebsite.com> wrote in message news:zK2dnb1c4ufhkqzWnZ2dnUVZ_uBi4p2d(a)web-ster.com... > You don't get credit for being _good_, you get credit for being > _recognized_ as being good. How well you are recognized goes something > like (self PR)(real goodness); since even a slob has a teeny bit of real > goodness about him someplace, an energetically self-promoting slob will > be recognized over a genius wallflower every time. Lee de Forest vs. Edwin Armstrong would be a good example here... de Forest certainly did have a bit of talent -- if not nearly as much as Armstrong -- but was the much better self-promoter...
From: Adrian Tuddenham on 22 Dec 2009 14:00 Phil Hobbs <pcdhSpamMeSenseless(a)electrooptical.net> wrote: > On 12/22/2009 12:32 PM, Bill Sloman wrote: > > http://www.analog-europe.com/212700488;jsessionid > > =2EYNK2XDSG2HZQE1GHOSKHWATMY32JVN?pgno=1 > > > > George Philbrick > > Bernard Gordon > > Jim Solomon > > Barrie Gilbert > > Bob J. Widlar > > Bob Pease > > Jim Williams > > Dennis Monticelli > > Tom Hornak > > > > pity about > > > > Alan Dower Blumlein > > > > apparently the fact that he never worked in the USA means that > > inventing the first practical televison and stereo systems doesn't > > count. He had 128 patents when he died when a bomber carring a > > protoptye of the H2S radar crashed on landing in 1942. > > > > -- > > Bill Sloman, Nijmegen He was an analogue angineer, not an analog engineer.... > Don't forget Mitch Ratcliffe the radio guy, Robert Watson-Watt the radar > guy, the unnamed heroes at Mullards who designed the Hanbury-Brown > correlator, Fred Terman the network analysis guy, Edwin Armstrong the > FM, superhet, and superregen guy, Thomas Edison the diode guy..... > > Analog folks all. Peter Baxandall D.T.N. Williamson Peter Walker John Linsley-Hood and the analogue/electromechanicals: P.G.A.H. Voigt Herbert Holman -- ~ Adrian Tuddenham ~ (Remove the ".invalid"s and add ".co.uk" to reply) www.poppyrecords.co.uk
From: whit3rd on 22 Dec 2009 14:15 How about the OLD analog guys? Eccles and Jordan, and Steinmetz? We all build on their foundation work.
From: qrk on 22 Dec 2009 14:26
On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:32:31 -0800 (PST), Bill Sloman <bill.sloman(a)ieee.org> wrote: >http://www.analog-europe.com/212700488;jsessionid=2EYNK2XDSG2HZQE1GHOSKHWATMY32JVN?pgno=1 > >George Philbrick >Bernard Gordon >Jim Solomon >Barrie Gilbert >Bob J. Widlar >Bob Pease >Jim Williams >Dennis Monticelli >Tom Hornak > >pity about > >Alan Dower Blumlein > >apparently the fact that he never worked in the USA means that >inventing the first practical televison and stereo systems doesn't >count. He had 128 patents when he died when a bomber carring a >protoptye of the H2S radar crashed on landing in 1942. Where's Harold Black? Philo Farnsworth? |