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16:22, 3 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+4,083)‎ . . N First-Hand:Wartime Meteorology, Radar, and Encryption ‎ (Created page with "Philip Morris When I was around six, I lived in Jackson Heights, New York, a few blocks away from Holmes Airport. (Holmes Airport was closed when Laguardia Field was opened.) Al...")
14:39, 3 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+3,556)‎ . . N First-Hand:A Lifelong Career in Engineering, An Interview with Darrel E. Moll ‎ (Created page with "'''Darrel E. Moll''' Q: Why did you become an engineer? A: I didn't have enough money to become a doctor. Q: When did you first start thinking about engineering as a career? ...")
22:27, 2 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+3,458)‎ . . N First-Hand:LearJet, Auto Pilot and Eight Tracks ‎ (Created page with "'''Kenneth Miller''' My first job, and I mean job, at twentyfive cents per hour, was to wire floor lamps in a dingy loft operation in Chicago. This was quickly followed by becom...")
19:58, 2 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+7,493)‎ . . N First-Hand:Radio, TV, and Life in War and Peace ‎ (Created page with "'''Rowland Medler''' The war intervened and I took two moonlighting jobs; teaching basic electronics at a local trades college and teaching an electronics course under the Engin...")
18:47, 2 January 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+2,826)‎ . . N First-Hand:Generators and Electrical Insulation ‎ (Created page with "'''Vernon McFarlin''' June 15, 1931-graduation into twentyfive percent unemployment. If one had a college degree and a dime, one could ride on the Boston Elevated Railway. I ha...")
17:29, 27 December 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+7,674)‎ . . N First-Hand:Television Receivers, Missile Guidance Systems, and the USA's First Satellite ‎ (Created page with "'''Leonard R. Malling''' (1933-38) As active chief of Baird Television, Captain West was at this time working on high definition television, sixty lines at twenty-four frames. I...")
16:00, 27 December 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+9,403)‎ . . N First-Hand:Unions and Utilities in New York ‎ (Created page with "'''Alexander Lurkis''' I decided to become an engineer when I was twelve years old. A pamphlet had been distributed in my class in P.S. (Public School) 52, the Bronx, which desc...")
20:07, 20 December 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+4,132)‎ . . N First-Hand:Adversity No Match for Electronics Engineer ‎ (Created page with "'''Frank T. Luff''' My first thoughts about becoming an engineer probably came in 1937 when I was a sophomore in high school in the small farming town of Palmyra, Nebraska. I ha...")
19:07, 20 December 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+1,857)‎ . . N First-Hand:Electronic Warfare, Radio Receivers and Countermeasures ‎ (Created page with "'''Howard 0. Lorenzen''' After graduation from high school, I worked for the Iowa State Highway Commission surveying for the paved roads that lifted Iowa out of the mud. During ...")
18:05, 20 December 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+5,172)‎ . . N First-Hand:An Electrophysicist's Role in Academia and Star Wars ‎ (Created page with "'''Enrico Levi''' I was born near the end of World War I in Milano, Italy. Most probably, my family had lived in Italy for more than two thousand years, and at various times, to...")
15:50, 20 December 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+5,381)‎ . . N First-Hand:Westinghouse Pioneers Development of Sulfur Hexafluoride (SF6) Circuit Breakers ‎ (Created page with "'''Winthrop Leeds''' My boss, John B. MacNeill, suggested that I couldn't do better than to attend his alma mater, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for graduate study. ...")
20:06, 19 December 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+6,311)‎ . . N First-Hand:Negotiating Communications Center Construction in India ‎ (Created page with "'''Leonard A. Karr''' As a Senior Electrical Engineer with Burns and Roe (B&R), an international engineering and construction firm, headquartered in New York, specializing in po...")
16:10, 19 December 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+1,198)‎ . . N First-Hand:Innovations in Disk Recording, MFM and 3PM Code ‎ (Created page with "'''George V. Jacoby''' (M '51; SM '58; F '81) I received the Diploma Ing. degree in electrical engineering from the Technical University of Budapest, Hungary, in 1941. In the ...")
22:42, 18 December 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+5,968)‎ . . N First-Hand:WWII Allied Telecommunications Systems ‎ (Created page with "'''Julius J. Hupert''' I graduated from the Warsaw Polytechnic with a Dipl. Ing. degree (equivalent to MSc. in electrical engineering) as a pupil of Professor Janusz Groszkowski...")
19:26, 18 December 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+14,565)‎ . . N First-Hand:Power Engineering, Thermostats and Electric Toothbrushes ‎ (Created page with "'''Garabed Hovhanesian''' To understand where my "engineering" originated, one must understand where I originated. Both my parents were born before the turn ofthe century, appro...")
18:00, 18 December 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+13,369)‎ . . N First-Hand:Engineering in Military, Civilian, and Government Sectors ‎ (Created page with "'''Alfred Holtum''' In the spring of 1954, the Signal Corps was setting up a Communications Department at the AEPG (Army Electronic Proving Ground) at Fort Huachuca, Arizona. Th...")
23:16, 6 December 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+7,494)‎ . . N First-Hand:A Jesuit's Forays in Astronomy and Seismology ‎ (Created page with "'''Francis J. Heyden''' In 1938 I applied for admission to Harvard to work for a doctorate in astronomy. I was very green and, with four full courses in atomic physics, statisti...")
18:28, 6 December 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+4,874)‎ . . N First-Hand:Hand-Held Radios and Electronic Beepers ‎ (Created page with "'''AI Gross''' My parents encouraged my work, although they didn't understand it. We were poor, yet my parents found a way to get me parts to work with. The parts may have been ...")
15:54, 6 December 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+4,548)‎ . . N First-Hand:Recollections on Education and Missile Guidance Systems ‎ (Created page with "'''Emil Gaynor''' I honestly cannot remember when I first thought about becoming an engineer. It must have been when I was about ten. I tried putting together a telegraph set fr...")
23:02, 29 November 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+1,751)‎ . . N First-Hand:Engineering Power ‎ (Created page with "'''Clive M. Gardam''' Although my desire was to major in electronics, at McGill University (Canada) in 1947, the emphasis seemed to be on power. I recall one professor telling u...")
19:46, 29 November 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+649)‎ . . N First-Hand:WAPDA's Electric Distribution System in Pakistan ‎ (Created page with "My sixties included participation in a team effort to improve WAPDA's electric distribution system in Pakistan. Although this should have been the high point of my career, compli...")
17:58, 29 November 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+2,627)‎ . . N First-Hand:A Life in Wire and Cable Engineering ‎ (Created page with "'''Emil Evancich''' While a student at Kelly High School, I was drafted into the United States Army. I was trained as a medical technician in the 94th Medical Gas Treatment Batt...")
19:12, 27 November 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+5,830)‎ . . N First-Hand:A Checkered Career in Electrical Engineering ‎ (Created page with "'''William A. Edson''' My brother Jim, who was seven years older, was already studying electrical engineering when I entered high school. He had a job at Bell Labs before I grad...")
18:46, 27 November 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+21,649)‎ . . N First-Hand:A Passion for Radio ‎ (Created page with "'''A. James Ebel''' My interest in radio began in the mid-20s when I purchased a Radiola III Regenerative Receiver-DX listening became my hobby. In 1928, I visited radio station...")
15:49, 27 November 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+2,568)‎ . . N First-Hand:Experiences at Westinghouse ‎ (Created page with "John Duhl I had no hope for an engineering career as a high school graduate because an invalid father put the family's economic survival in my hands. The war changed things with...")
20:02, 23 November 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+2)‎ . . First-Hand:Early Recollections of Ham Radio ‎
19:57, 23 November 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+1,836)‎ . . N First-Hand:Early Recollections of Ham Radio ‎ (Created page with "It all started with a near-fatal case of pneumatic fever on Thanksgiving Day, 1934. Having just turned eleven, my major interests then were football and bicycles, of which I had ...")
21:05, 20 November 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+6,963)‎ . . N First-Hand:Tube Manufacturing at Sylvania ‎ (Created page with "'''W. A. Dickinson''' During the war, we made a variety of tubes for use in radar, loran, and so forth. Radar designs, including the display tubes, progressed rapidly with the w...")
20:09, 20 November 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+8,365)‎ . . N First-Hand:Reinventing the Wheel: Collaboration, Cooperation, and Contention in Engineering ‎ (Created page with "'''Paul G. Cushman''' Paul G. Cushman After graduation from MIT and Middlebury in 1941, I joined the General Electric (GE) Company and stayed with that company for forty-two yea...")
19:24, 25 October 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+6,282)‎ . . N First-Hand:An Engineer's Career in Academia ‎ (Created page with "'''W. Jack Cunningham''' From early on, the course of my life was directed toward something technical. My paternal grandparents had moved to a small town in west Texas (Comanche...")
18:15, 25 October 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+4,153)‎ . . N First-Hand:An IEEE Senior Member's Interesting Engineering Career ‎ (Created page with "'''William S. Cranmer''' In my case, it all started at age six when my father gave me a Mechano set as a birthday present. I learned which way to turn a nut on a clockwise screw...")
17:46, 25 October 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+646)‎ . . N First-Hand:Tom Cartin ‎ (Created page with "I graduated in 1950 at the height of the Korean war. I was in the Army Reserve so I went to work in the research and development laboratory at Fort Belvoir, Virginia. I hoped tha...") (current)
17:31, 25 October 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+4,940)‎ . . N First-Hand:My Career as an Electrical Consultant ‎ (Created page with "'''Aubrey G. Caplan''' The inspiration to become an "engineer" came from Alexander Botts and the Earthworm Tractor stories which appeared in The Saturday Evening Post magazine. ...")
19:42, 23 October 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+4,573)‎ . . N First-Hand:Radio Engineering and NACA Telemetering ‎ (Created page with "'''Paul Burk''' As many other Life Members , I got into radio about 1929 via a catwhisker, a galena crystal, a pair of headphones and about fifty feet of antenna wire. The livin...")
17:52, 23 October 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+4,153)‎ . . N First-Hand:Wartime Work on Missile Guidance to Federal Telecommunications System ‎ (Created page with "'''M. Lloyd Bond''' And then came THE WAR. On December 8, 1941, I volunteered to the Navy. Because radio (soon to be called "electronic") engineers were so scarce, I was an ensi...")
15:32, 23 October 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+1,479)‎ . . N First-Hand:Gustav Bliesner: Coordinator, Portland Section ‎ (Created page with "'''Gustav "GUS" Henry Bliesner''' My first thoughts for a career were in rural electrification, as electricity should save labor, especially on the farmstead. My maternal grandm...")
14:43, 23 October 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+1,516)‎ . . N First-Hand:Norman Bleshman, Chairman of the Power and Industrial Division (NY) ‎ (Created page with "'''Norman A. Bleshman''' In 1953, I faced my first professional organizational challenge serving as AlEE Student Branch chairman. I was responsible for organizing the first join...")
20:34, 16 October 2012 (diff | hist) . . (-4)‎ . . First-Hand:An Engineer's World Travels ‎
19:55, 16 October 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+6,250)‎ . . N First-Hand:From Radio Engineering to War-Time Research ‎ (Created page with "'''Sidney Bertram''' I was born Sydney Abramovitch in Winnipeg, Canada; the name was changed when the family moved to California in 1923. I took a vocational electrical course...")
19:40, 16 October 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+17,209)‎ . . N First-Hand:An Engineer's World Travels ‎ (Created page with "'''Leo Berberich''' In 1918, at twelve I watched with excitement as the workmen unloaded and installed the DELCO generator set at the family farm. I didn't know much about elect...")
19:04, 16 October 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+5,109)‎ . . N First-Hand:Warsaw's First Vacuum Tube Factory: The Story of Wieslaw Barwicz ‎ (Created page with "'''Wieslaw Barwicz''' My first job in 1938 was in a Philips factory in Warsaw as the manager of a small department producing small Pupin coils for telecommunication purposes. At...")
19:20, 11 October 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+8,854)‎ . . N First-Hand:The First-Ever Integrated High Fidelity Output System ‎ (Created page with "'''Alfred W. Barber''' In 1920, I (at age fourteen) bought my first radio magazines and began to hanker for a vacuum tube to experiment with. The Radio News (August, 1920 on pag...")
18:09, 11 October 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+9,003)‎ . . N First-Hand:From War-Time Radio to Peace-Time Television ‎ (Created page with "'''Leslie Balter''' I never remember consciously deciding to become an engineer. My father was a mechanic who had attended a trade school. He had the ability to take anything ap...")
17:38, 11 October 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+2,872)‎ . . N First-Hand:First-Hand:From a Colorado Farm to the Bureau of Reclamation: An IEEE Life Member's Story ‎ (Created page with "''' Thomas M. Austin ''' I was in high school when I first heard about electrified railroads and dreamed of being the engineer to electrify the big western railroads; however, ...")
17:09, 11 October 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+1)‎ . . First-Hand:Innovations in Radio Communications: Post WWI ‎ (→‎Paul D. Andrews)
17:07, 11 October 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+2)‎ . . First-Hand:Engineering the Technology of the Future: Building High-Speed Computing Machines in the 1950s ‎ (→‎John Alrich)
17:07, 11 October 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+6)‎ . . First-Hand:Engineering the Technology of the Future: Building High-Speed Computing Machines in the 1950s ‎
17:05, 11 October 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+6,180)‎ . . N First-Hand:Innovations in Radio Communications: Post WWI ‎ (Created page with "== Paul D. Andrews == I was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, on the 14th of February, 1900. I built my first Amateur Radio Station in 1910. The station did not require a licen...")
13:58, 11 October 2012 (diff | hist) . . (-13)‎ . . First-Hand:Engineering the Technology of the Future: Building High-Speed Computing Machines in the 1950s ‎
20:47, 9 October 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+9,904)‎ . . N First-Hand:Engineering the Technology of the Future: Building High-Speed Computing Machines in the 1950s ‎ (Created page with "John Alrich The decision I had to make about my lifetime career was whether it would be in engineering, mathematics or physics. Since in those days physics and math majors were r...")

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