Author Topic: Who is your Electronics Hero? (Read 11588 times)

Veramacor · « **on:** May 07, 2011, 06:50:54 pm »

Let me start off by saying that I'm sure everyone would say Dave is their Electronics Hero! That goes without saying, but I said it anyway

So, other than Dave, who is YOUR electronics hero?

Mine is Dale Heatherington, co-founder of Hayes Modems...

http://www.wa4dsy.com/robot/home/about

Mechatrommer · « **Reply #1 on:** May 07, 2011, 07:07:10 pm »

Thomas Alva Edison

FreeThinker · « **Reply #2 on:** May 07, 2011, 07:12:21 pm »

Transistor Man

Kiriakos-GR · « **Reply #3 on:** May 07, 2011, 07:21:34 pm »

I would also vote the Thomas Edison , but if I think about electronics with a more wider view,
then my own true hero are the company called as " Royal Philips Electronics " .
And their product line stamped with the logo : Made in Germany.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philips

ArtemisGoldfish · « **Reply #4 on:** May 07, 2011, 07:42:13 pm »

William Shockley, despite the whole "eugenics" thing.

comox · « **Reply #5 on:** May 07, 2011, 08:24:09 pm »

Chuck Peddle & Steve Wozniak

Bored@Work · « **Reply #6 on:** May 07, 2011, 08:48:38 pm »

Non. I don't believe in this personal hero nonsense, and make sure school doesn't implant this nonsense in my kid's head.

allanw · « **Reply #7 on:** May 07, 2011, 09:02:59 pm »

Not even someone like Jim Williams or Pease? Or maybe Widlar, he might be more your kind of guy :p

Bored@Work · « **Reply #8 on:** May 07, 2011, 09:16:18 pm »

No, they do great work, but I don't have any heroes.

DaveW · « **Reply #9 on:** May 07, 2011, 09:54:11 pm »

Has to be Tesla and Bob Pease. With Edison I'm always reminded of the Tesla quote about him, to experiment blindly never seemed like the true engineering way...

Tesla: "If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search. I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety percent of his labor."

tekfan · « **Reply #10 on:** May 07, 2011, 10:48:33 pm »

I don't have a specific hero but here's a list of potential candidates:

Howard Vollum
Bill Hewlett
Dave packard
John Fluke
Jim Williams
Bob Widlar
Bob Pease
Willi Studer

st1 · « **Reply #11 on:** May 07, 2011, 11:07:08 pm »

Heinrich Hertz

-Died a slow horrible death though $:-\$

Ronnie · « **Reply #12 on:** May 09, 2011, 12:18:03 am »

Harold Black, Alan Blumlein, Harry Nyquist, & Charles Steinmetz.

Uncle Vernon · « **Reply #13 on:** May 09, 2011, 12:46:22 am »

Not sure about the hero thing, but circuit girl can save me any time she wishes.

zaoka · « **Reply #14 on:** May 09, 2011, 01:42:47 am »

Of course Nikola Tesla, read these:

- 1898, he was demonstrating to the world the first remote controlled model boat at Madison Square Garden.
- At the beginning of World War I, Tesla proposed the use of energy waves to detect German submarines (known today as RADAR). Thomas Edison rejected his idea as ludicrous.
- Tesla was offered $50,000 to improve some of Edison's ideas, but when he delivered, Edison claimed that he had only been "joking," and refused to pay him.

.......

Internet, Phone.. its all Teslas ideas..

vk6zgo · « **Reply #15 on:** May 09, 2011, 01:58:13 am »

Its neck & neck between Ernest Fisk & Fritz Langford-Smith.

Bet you've never heard of either of them!

VK6ZGO

Trigger · « **Reply #16 on:** May 09, 2011, 02:26:22 am »

Nikola Tesla

One can only wonder what he would have come up with if his work had continued.

Psi · « **Reply #17 on:** May 09, 2011, 02:32:47 am »

aww, noone picked MacGyver

JNB · « **Reply #18 on:** May 09, 2011, 05:41:56 am »

Georg Simon Ohm (1789 – 1854), He brought law to the wild weird world of the electrons.....

Nermash · « **Reply #19 on:** May 09, 2011, 06:17:46 am »

(Both) hands up for Tesla!

deephaven · « **Reply #20 on:** May 09, 2011, 08:25:57 am »

Sir Douglas Hall.

CircuitMart · « **Reply #21 on:** May 09, 2011, 08:58:48 am »

My former Boss, A powerful gentleman from Nordic area.
He always able to find new and effective idea....

Excavatoree · « **Reply #22 on:** May 09, 2011, 01:53:37 pm »

Bob Pease, Bob Widlar, Jeri Ellsworth and Limor Fried.

Of course, my professors, Marshall Leach, John Matthews, and Thomas Brewer.

Finally, two gentlemen named Mark Furches and Howard Ekey, who taught me everything I know about vehicle harness design and manufacturing support in a factory environment.

Excavatoree · « **Reply #23 on:** May 09, 2011, 03:00:33 pm »

Has anyone said Charles Proteus Steinmetz?

Sionyn · « **Reply #24 on:** May 09, 2011, 04:13:47 pm »

michael faraday
Charles Babbage


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