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Memories Of Dad 15.11.1902- 16.10.1970 A Celebration Of The Life And Works Of Edmund Ramsay Wigan, Marcus R. Wigan Nov 2003

Memories Of Dad 15.11.1902- 16.10.1970 A Celebration Of The Life And Works Of Edmund Ramsay Wigan, Marcus R. Wigan

Marcus R Wigan

Edmund Ramsay Wigan was a distinguished Acoustical and Mechanical Engineer, who patented literally several dozen devices and ideas, was responsible for the field radios used by the Allied forces in Europe in World War 2, and when invited as the special merit Senior Principal at the BBC Research lab in Kingston, Surrey, invented the quality meters, tuned all the BBC broadcasting aerials for quality, and did applied research creating a reliable measure for subjective levels of sound distortion. As a minor practical measure invented the one cycle offset used ever since to avoid feedback in large multi-miked rooms. He was …

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The Age Of Entanglement Jan 2001

The Age Of Entanglement

David D Nolte

Quantum mechanics is a venerable field of study. The year 2000 marked the 100th anniversary of theoriginal quantum hypothesis proposed by Max Planck in November of 1900. Few current fields in physicsor engineering are as old as quantum mechanics. It predates relativity, both special and general. It predatesnuclear and particle physics. Quantum mechanics even predates universal acceptance of the molecularhypothesis, that is, that all matter is made up of individual molecules in thermal motion. It may be hard tobelieve, but this happened only after Einstein's paper on Brownian motion was published in his miracleyear 1905.

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