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    Ernst Frederick Werner Alexanderson (January 25, 1878 – May 14, 1975) was a Swedish-American electrical engineer, who was a pioneer in radio and television...
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    An Alexanderson alternator is a rotating machine invented by Ernst Alexanderson in 1904 for the generation of high-frequency alternating current for use...
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  • Alexanderson is a surname meaning "Son of Alexander". Notable people with the surname include: Ernst Alexanderson (1878–1975), Swedish-American electrical...
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  • Aldis lamp – Arthur Cyril Webb Aldis Aldrin – Kurt Alder Alexanderson alternator – Ernst Alexanderson Algorithm – Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī Anderson shelter...
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    this machine is due to Charles Proteus Steinmetz, Caryl D. Haskins, Ernst Alexanderson, John T. H. Dempster, Henry Geisenhoner, Adam Stein, Jr., and F. P...
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    antitrust violations and was ordered to divest itself of RCA. In 1927, Ernst Alexanderson of GE made the first demonstration of television broadcast reception...
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    General Electric's 48-line television system and lasted 40 minutes. Ernst Alexanderson was the electrical engineer that developed the mechanics of coordinating...
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    Alexanderson Day, named after the Swedish radio engineer Ernst Fredrik Werner Alexanderson and held either on the last Sunday in June, or on the first...
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  • born within the territorial limits of the United States. June 5 – Ernst Alexanderson sends the first facsimile across the Atlantic Ocean, which goes to...
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    The transmitter chosen was the Alexanderson alternator, invented around 1906 by Swedish-American Ernst Alexanderson and manufactured by RCA. This consisted...
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  • photograph. Charles J. Young, son of the RCA founder Owen D. Young, and Ernst Alexanderson, developed a radio facsimile system for General Electric. On 12 August...
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  • Medal and the IEEE Medal of Honor, namely Edwin Howard Armstrong, Ernst Alexanderson, Mihajlo Pupin, Arthur E. Kennelly, Vladimir K. Zworykin, John R....
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    Valdemar Poulsen in 1903, and the Alexanderson alternator, invented 1906–1912 by Reginald Fessenden and Ernst Alexanderson. These slowly replaced the spark...
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    obsolete electromechanical amplifier invented prior to World War II by Ernst Alexanderson. It consists of an electric motor driving a DC generator. The signal...
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    alternator-transmitters. This project was ultimately assigned to Ernst F. W. Alexanderson, who in August 1906 delivered a unit which was successfully used...
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    1975 Chevy Chevelle powered by a 180-volt lead cobalt battery Died: Ernst Alexanderson, 97, Swedish-born American inventor and pioneer in the development...
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    resonant circuit. The Alexanderson alternator transmitter, developed between 1906 and 1915 by Reginald Fessenden and Ernst Alexanderson, was a huge rotating...
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    Larson, co-founder of Volvo Niklas Zennström, co-founder of Skype Ernst Alexanderson, inventor Joe Armstrong, creator of the programming language Erlang...
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  • Month Day Event January 13 Dr. Ernst Frederik Werner Alexanderson performs the first successful public television broadcast. The pictures, with 48 lines...
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    106. The tuned radio frequency (TRF) receiver, invented in 1916 by Ernst Alexanderson, improved both sensitivity and selectivity by using several stages...
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    patented by Edwin Armstrong. The TRF receiver was patented in 1916 by Ernst Alexanderson. His concept was that each stage would amplify the desired signal...
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    poles that would rotate fast enough. In 1906 Reginald Fessenden and Ernst Alexanderson at General Electric began to solve the problems and build alternators...
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    assigning priority for seven of the claims to Lévy, and one each to Ernst Alexanderson of General Electric and Burton W. Kendall of Bell Laboratories. Although...
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  • provider, holding 35% market share. Charles P. Steinmetz, #1 (1914) Ernst Alexanderson, (1944) Reinhold Rudenberg, (1950) John Robinson Pierce, (1964) Hannes...
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    Cemetery (2005). Ernst Alexanderson – came to the United States in 1901 to meet electrical wizard Charles Steinmetz. Developed the Alexanderson alternator,...
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    January 23 – Rutland Boughton, English composer (d. 1960) January 25 – Ernst Alexanderson, Swedish-born American television pioneer (d. 1975) February 1 – Milan...
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    or "landscape" pictures. (For example, the television systems of Ernst Alexanderson, Frank Conrad, Charles Francis Jenkins, William Peck and Ulises Armand...
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  • British playwright, novelist, and short story writer (d. 1965) 1878 – Ernst Alexanderson, Swedish-American engineer (d. 1975) 1882 – Virginia Woolf, English...
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  • Samuel James Cameron, Scottish obstetrician (died 1959) January 25 – Ernst Alexanderson, Swedish-born television pioneer (died 1975) February 5 – André Citroën...
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    headphones as an audible signal of dots and dashes. In 1904, Ernst Alexanderson introduced the Alexanderson alternator, a device that directly produced radio frequency...
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