Top ten analog engineers

Bill Sloman · 2009-12-22T17:32:31+00:00

?pgno=1George PhilbrickBernard GordonJim SolomonBarrie GilbertBob J. WidlarBob PeaseJim WilliamsDennis MonticelliTom Hornakpity aboutAlan Dower Blumleinapparently the fact that he never worked in the USA means thatinventing the first practical televison and stereo systems doesn'tcount. He had 128 patents when he died when a bomber carring aprotoptye of the H2S radar crashed on landing in 1942.--Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

Dec 22, 2009 62 Replies

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Bill Sloman 16 years ago

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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

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Fred Abse 16 years ago

I suspect that Blumlein would have had the savvy to realize what was going on, and get out. Hell, he would have been one of the most employable guys around. Probably would have got head hunted anyway.

"Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it." (Stephen Leacock)

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JosephKK 16 years ago

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I thought there was some "unknowns" in Slowmans list. Phil Hobbs = selections should certainly bump some of those bill listed.

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