Harold Henry Beverage (1893-1993) was an American radio engineer from North Haven, Maine, best known for the Beverage antenna. As a teenager he built a home-made wireless set and picked up signals from the ship Carpathia. He graduated from the University of Maine in 1915 and joined General Electric the next year as a radio-laboratory assistant, working on naval radio and voice transmission during the First World War. In 1920 he took charge of developing receivers for transoceanic communications at the Radio Corporation of America, work that led to his 1921 patent on the wave antenna, a standard for long-wave reception. He became chief research engineer of RCA Communications in 1929 and vice president of research and development by 1940, retiring in 1958. He served as president of the Institute of Radio Engineers in 1937 and received its Medal of Honor in 1945.
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North Haven, ME, USA
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Harold Henry Beverage was born in North Haven, ME., in 1893.
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supervised the development of receivers for transoceanic communications at RCA
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In 1920 he was placed in charge of developing receivers for transoceanic communications at the Radio Corporation of America (RCA).
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