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From: Bill Sloman on 25 Dec 2009 22:25 On Dec 25, 6:55 pm, Fred Abse <excretatau...(a)invalid.invalid> wrote: > On Thu, 24 Dec 2009 18:21:45 -0800,Bill Slomanwrote: > > On Dec 24, 10:23 am, Fred Abse <excretatau...(a)invalid.invalid> wrote: > >> On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:16:37 -0800,Bill Slomanwrote: > >> > Very possibly, but the EMI-Marconi system was the first fully > >> > electronic television system to be used in regular broadcasting, which > >> > is to say that it was the first practical system. > > >> True. However it was the fruit of the labors of many more individuals than > >> Blumlein. Projects of this nature are a team effort. I believe some input > >> came from contributors at A. C. Cossor, and others. > > >> I believe the original Marconi-EMI system used cameras based around > >> Zworykin's Iconoscope tube, which incorporated some of Farnsworth's ideas. > > > Sure. Everybody stands on the shoulders of giants. Blumlein covered a > > lot of ground in his relatively short life - he's like Einstein in > > physics, in that when you are digging into something new stuff you run > > a fairly high risk of running into the name. You do wonder whether it > > was a relative, but with those two it never is. > > I've often wondered how different things might have been if he'd survived.. When I worked at EMI-Central Research they had a lot of very clever engineers, and too many very British managers, who understood business much better than the engineers - or at least very differently from the engineers. Since EMI went bust a few years later it would seem that the managers weren't quite as uniquely gifted as they seemed to think. I imagine that they could have wasted Blumlein's talents as effectively as they wasted everybody else's. -- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen
From: JosephKK on 28 Dec 2009 04:14
On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:08:39 -0700, Jim Thompson <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon(a)My-Web-Site.com/Snicker> wrote: >On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 12:53:50 -0500, 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 >>> >> >>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. >> >>Cheers >> >>Phil Hobbs > >Jim Solomon... intellectual thief that I once worked for at Motorola. > >In a paper he claimed that he designed the multiplier (Gilbert's cell) >until the academic community descended on him. > >Now I note he claims creation of the BiFET OpAmp... my Master's thesis >was the first. Looks like he took my work to National with him and >claimed it as his own. > >Slowman is the same kind of thief. > > ...Jim Thompson I thought there was some "unknowns" in Slowmans list. Phil Hobbs selections should certainly bump some of those bill listed. |