Electrical engineers and inventors who built particular electrical devices and measuring instruments, including thermoscopes, flat irons, audio equipment, atomic clocks, test instruments and defibrillators. The group is made up of people remembered for a named device or instrument rather than for power systems or communications. The power engineers, radio engineers, semiconductor pioneers and identification inventors have their own groups.
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Bill Hewlett (Wikipedia)
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Their first big breakthrough came when Disney purchased eight audio oscillators designed by Hewlett which were used for the production of the film Fantasia.
Louis Essen (Wikipedia)
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Louis Essen OBE FRS (6 September 1908-24 August 1997) was an English physicist whose most notable achievements were in the precise measurement of time and the determination of the speed of light.
Douglas Shearer (Wikipedia)
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Douglas Graham Shearer (November 17, 1899, January 5, 1971) was a Canadian American pioneering sound designer and recording director who played a key role in the advancement of sound technology for motion pictures.
William B. Kouwenhoven (Wikipedia)
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Known as the "Father of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation", he is best known for his contributions to the development of the closed-chest cardiac massage and his invention of the cardiac defibrillator.
Early electric irons, self-heating flat irons, sad irons (Old and Interesting)
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articles Subscribe to RSS feed or get email updates. The electric flat iron plays also an important part in the laundry as it is clean and never gets too hot nor too cold and there is no rushing back
William Stanley Jr. (Wikipedia)
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obtained 129 patents covering a variety of electric devices
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