Who is your Electronics Hero? - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: Veramacor
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: May 07, 2011, 06:50:54 pm
content: 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 anywaySo, other than Dave, who is YOUR electronics hero?Mine is Dale Heatherington, co-founder of Hayes Modems...http://www.wa4dsy.com/robot/home/about

author: Mechatrommer
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 07, 2011, 07:07:10 pm
content: Thomas Alva Edison

author: FreeThinker
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 07, 2011, 07:12:21 pm
content: Transistor Man

author: Kiriakos-GR
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 07, 2011, 07:21:34 pm
content: 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 " RoyalPhilipsElectronics " .And their product line stamped with the logo :Made in Germany.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philips

author: ArtemisGoldfish
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: May 07, 2011, 07:42:13 pm
content: William Shockley, despite the whole "eugenics" thing.

author: comox
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: May 07, 2011, 08:24:09 pm
content: Chuck Peddle & Steve Wozniak

author: Bored@Work
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 07, 2011, 08:48:38 pm
content: Non. I don't believe in this personal hero nonsense, and make sure school doesn't implant this nonsense in my kid's head.

author: allanw
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 07, 2011, 09:02:59 pm
content: Not even someone like Jim Williams or Pease? Or maybe Widlar, he might be more your kind of guy :p

author: Bored@Work
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 07, 2011, 09:16:18 pm
content: No, they do great work, but I don't have any heroes.

author: DaveW
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 07, 2011, 09:54:11 pm
content: 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."

author: tekfan
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 07, 2011, 10:48:33 pm
content: I don't have a specific hero but here's a list of potential candidates:Howard VollumBill HewlettDave packardJohn FlukeJim WilliamsBob WidlarBob PeaseWilli Studer

author: st1
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: May 07, 2011, 11:07:08 pm
content: Heinrich Hertz-Died a slow horrible death though

author: Ronnie
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: May 09, 2011, 12:18:03 am
content: Harold Black, Alan Blumlein, Harry Nyquist, & Charles Steinmetz.

author: Unknown
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: May 09, 2011, 12:46:22 am
content: Not sure about the hero thing, but circuit girl can save me any time she wishes.

author: zaoka
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 09, 2011, 01:42:47 am
content: 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..

author: vk6zgo
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 09, 2011, 01:58:13 am
content: Its neck & neck between Ernest Fisk & Fritz Langford-Smith.Bet you've never heard of either of them!VK6ZGO

author: Trigger
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: May 09, 2011, 02:26:22 am
content: Nikola TeslaOne can only wonder what he would have come up with if his work had continued.

author: Psi
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 09, 2011, 02:32:47 am
content: aww, noone picked MacGyver

author: JNB
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: May 09, 2011, 05:41:56 am
content: Georg Simon Ohm (1789 – 1854), He brought law to the wild weird world of the electrons.....

author: Nermash
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 09, 2011, 06:17:46 am
content: (Both) hands up for Tesla!

author: deephaven
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 09, 2011, 08:25:57 am
content: Sir Douglas Hall.

author: CircuitMart
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: May 09, 2011, 08:58:48 am
content: My former Boss, A powerful gentleman from Nordic area.He always able to find new and effective idea....

author: Excavatoree
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 09, 2011, 01:53:37 pm
content: 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.

author: Excavatoree
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 09, 2011, 03:00:33 pm
content: Has anyone said Charles Proteus Steinmetz?

author: Sionyn
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 09, 2011, 04:13:47 pm
content: michael faradayCharles Babbage

author: Zero999
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 09, 2011, 06:17:35 pm
content: Not my personal hero but my county's: Alan Turing of course for helping us to win the war and it's terrible how thanked him by prosecuting him for for being gay, leading to his suicide.

author: Excavatoree
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 09, 2011, 06:23:26 pm
content: Quote from: DaveW on May 07, 2011, 09:54:11 pmSorry, for so many posts in this thread, but I should have quoted this in my earlier post about Steinmetz. One of my professors spent half of a lecture talking about how Steinmetz contributed more to electrical engineering than Edison.

author: firewalker
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 09, 2011, 07:52:04 pm
content: Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger.Quantum mechanics is related with electronics.

author: A Hellene
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 10, 2011, 01:57:20 am
content: Not a hero (since I cannot accept the mentality of having any heroes at all,to blindly worshipand follow their paradigm), but I mostly admireNikola Tesla, whose genuine, great and extensive work was blatantly plagiarised by various "inventors," favored by the system, and literally buried bythe bankersand their absolute interests in monetary gain:"So, where do we put the electricity meter?"-- J.P. Morgan,a Rothschilds' tool(Edward Griffin's "The Creature from Jekyll Island") and Tesla's late financier, 1903.Just watch the biographical movieThe secret of Nikola Tesla (1980), if you can find it anywhere! It certainly worths the time to watch it, since it was not made by the deceptiveAshkenazim Hollywood Blatant Lies Industry(tm)...Not to mention that Tesla did not really "discover" anything just because he was aclerk in a Swiss patent office(which he was not!), having the chance to peek at other people's confidential work, like some other figuresa version of historyexpects us to admire asgenuineinventors...-George: Additional information.

author: Veramacor
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: May 10, 2011, 12:50:03 pm
content: Too many people got hung up on the 'hero' word. May I suggest you substitute 'hero' with:* who you look up to* admire* is a total badassGeez!

author: Kuolas
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: May 25, 2011, 01:01:41 am
content: Rigol... for making a cheap, overclocked and hackeable Oscilloscope