{"id":458,"date":"2020-06-27T16:40:06","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T20:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/umarc.eecs.umich.edu\/?page_id=458"},"modified":"2025-03-19T16:54:20","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T20:54:20","slug":"notable-individuals","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/umarc.eecs.umich.edu\/index.php\/notable-individuals\/","title":{"rendered":"Notable Individuals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Cleveland Abbe\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Astronomer who collected weather data and later used telegraph operators to report weather conditions at their location.&nbsp; Abbe would use this information to \u201cpredict\u201d the weather as it approached his location in Cincinnati.&nbsp; Abbe would become the 1<sup>st<\/sup> Director of the National Weather Service.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Fred W. Albertson\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Law student who provided radio communications for the Greater Rockford, Untin Bowler (Robert&nbsp; McCormick \/ Chicago Tribune), Professor Hobbs Expedition (Arctic Greenland), the MacMIllian &amp; Richard Byrd Expedition (Antarctica) and Prof. Waterman\u2019s Mesopotamia Expedition.&nbsp; First direct simultaneous communications between Artic, Antarctic and University of Michigan.&nbsp; Albertson would later represent Edwin Armstrong, Douglas Fairbanks and United Artists Studios.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Benjamin Bailey\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Chief Engineer of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fairbanks-Morse\">Fairbanks Morse Electrical Manufacturing Company<\/a>&nbsp;and Howell Electrical Motor Company, director of Bailey Electrical Company, and vice-president and director of the Fremont Motor Corporation.&nbsp; Author of several books on electrical engineering, including&nbsp;<em>Principles of Dynamo-electric Machinery<\/em>&nbsp;(1915).&nbsp; He became professor of electrical engineering at the University of Michigan in 1913 and was department chairman from 1922 until his retirement in 1944. In the 1920s, he invented the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Capacitor\">capacitor<\/a>&nbsp;motor.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Jack Burchfield\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Co-Owner of Electro-Voice &amp; Co-Founder of Ten-Tec, CQ Amateur Radio Hall of Fame<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>B. N. Burglund\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>UM Radio Operator who received the first distress call from Dudley Nichols.\u00a0 The ARRL was created the following year (1914)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>William Cook\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Donated the funds to build the Cook Law Quad \/ UM Law School.&nbsp; Mr. Cook served as legal counsel for John McKay and his telegraph companies.&nbsp; Later, these companies were sold to Western Union.&nbsp; Author, Cook on Telegraph Law<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Horace (Dick) Crane\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Inventor of the \u201cRace Track Synchrotron\u201d and recipient of the National Medal of Science, Chair of the Department of Physics<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Detroit Observatory\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The 1961 Inventory of the Detroit Observatory lists the purchase of telegraph keys and sounders.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Amos Dolbear\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Student, Honorary Ph.D., Developer of the \u201cWireless Magneto\u201d (and telephone)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Anthony England\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Astronaut, UM Dean of Engineering &amp; ARRL CQ Amateur Radio Hall of Fame<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Electro Voice Company\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Testing of E-V Microphones performed at the UM College of Engineering (Albert Kahn)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Howard Gerrish\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Author; Electricity &amp; Electronics textbooks.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Karl Guthe\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Faculty who experimented with wireless telegraphy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Irv Hoff\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Pioneer in the development of RTTY.&nbsp; First to receive data from the Explorer I Satellite.&nbsp; Worked with Jonathan Schmidt and Vic Poor on transfer of images, development of the 8008 Processor, WinLink and LAN.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Huston Brothers\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Cy, Irwin &amp; Roscoe.&nbsp; Each earned their Law Degree from the UM Law School. Would own Cigar &amp; Pool Halls on campus, proud supporters of Michigan Football.&nbsp; Would take bets- used the telegraph to receive football scores.&nbsp; Responsible for moving the Detroit Lions to Detroit and their team colors.&nbsp; Began the tradition with the \u201cCow-Bell\u201d at the Michigan Footballl Bust.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Gail Ivory\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Owner; Ivory Camera &amp; Photography<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Mel Ivory\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Owner; Ivory Camera &amp; Photography<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>M. K. Jessup\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Detroit Observatory telegraph operator who maintained communications with the southern hemisphere observatory in Bloemfontien, Free State, South Africa.&nbsp; Jessup proposed the presence of UFO\u2019s.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Jim Kortge\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Designer of several QRP radios, QRP Hall of Fame<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>E. Lloyd Kelly\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li> Chair, Department of Psychology, W8KGG Trustee; South Quad \/ Huron Valley Amateur Radio &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Assn.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>John Kraus\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Antenna Theory &amp; Design, pioneer in radio-astronomy, CQ Amateur Radio Hall of Fame<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>John Lawser\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Sr. Engineer at ATT \/ Bell Labs and VOIP developer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Floyd \u201cJack\u201d Mattice\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Student who provided the First Play-by-Play of a sporting event (UM Football vs Minnesota &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cLittle Brown Jug\u201d) via telegraphy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Dudley Nichols\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Used his radio to make a distress call during the 1913 floods in Ohio.&nbsp; Would then enroll at the university and become the W8AXZ club president.&nbsp; Formed the Screen Writers Guild &amp; recipient of an Academy Award<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Paul Oscanyan\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>First portable radio operation from Greenland with the Hobbs Expedition and possibly the earliest marriage proposal sent and received via Morse code.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>R. D. Parker\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Faculty who experimented with wireless telegraphy, Physics Bldg.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>George Patterson\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Faculty who taught the first course in telegraphy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Vic Poor\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Developer of WinLink. Inventor of the 8008 and Founder of CDC Computers Corp.&nbsp; LAN &amp; WinLink developer (Jonathan Schmidt &amp; Irv Hoff)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Larry Phipps\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Owner, Telepost, Inc. (LP- xxx SWR\/Watt Meters)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Roy Purchase\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Owner, Purchase Camera &amp; Radio<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Jonathan Schmidt\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Inventor of the 8008 and Founder of CDC Computers Corp.&nbsp; LAN &amp; WinLink developer (Vic Poor &amp; Irv Hoff)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Claude Shannon\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201cFather of Information\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Henry Tappan\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>1<sup>st<\/sup> President of the University of Michigan and the 1<sup>st<\/sup> to witness Samuel Morse telegraph while faculty at University of the City New York (now NYU)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Augustus Trowbridge\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Faculty who experimented with wireless telegraphy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Alexander Winchell\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Faculty who provided the first classroom lectures on Morse\u2019s Telegraph (1868)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-458","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umarc.eecs.umich.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umarc.eecs.umich.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umarc.eecs.umich.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umarc.eecs.umich.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umarc.eecs.umich.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/umarc.eecs.umich.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1721,"href":"https:\/\/umarc.eecs.umich.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/458\/revisions\/1721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umarc.eecs.umich.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}