Inventor of Stereo
Subtitle: the life and works of Alan Dower Blumlein
Publisher: Focal Press
Published: 2000
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781306869560
Subjects: Electrical engineers; Biography; Ingénieurs électriciens; Biographies
Description: This book is the definitive study of the life and works of one of Britain's most important inventors who, due to a cruel set of circumstances, has all but been overlooked by history. Alan Dower Blumlein led an extraordinary life in which his inventive output rate easily surpassed that of Edison, but whose early death during the darkest days of World War Two led to a shroud of secrecy which has covered his life and achievements ever since. His 1931 Patent for a Binaural Recording system was so revolutionary that most of his contemporar.
Table of contents: title: Cover; The Inventor of Stereo:The Life and Works of Alan Dower Blumlein; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Picture credits; Introduction; Chapter 1. Earliest days; Chapter 2. Telegraphy and telephony; Chapter 3. The audio patents; Chapter 4. Television; Chapter 5. EMI and the Television Commission; Chapter 6. The high-definition television period; Chapter 7. From television to radar; Chapter 8. The story of radar development; Chapter 9. H2S; title: the coming of centimetric radar; Chapter 10. The loss of Halifax V9977; Chapter 11. Legacy; title: Chapter 12. To Goodrich Castle and beyondReferences; Patent chronology; Index