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Frederick Emmons Terman
Frederick Emmons Terman
Pages 308-331
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maker of policy par excellencewas beyonc! any reasonable doubt responsible for the concentration of economic accomplishment in what has come to be known as CaTifornia's Silicon Valley, as well as for important innovations in engineering.
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The Terman family moved to Stanford University in 1912 and settled in a home on the farm-like campus where Fred grew up. The senior Terman was inventor and co-developer of the Stanford Binet intelligence (or IQ)
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program in electric power engineering uncler Academy member Harris I Ryan, there was no formal instruction in raclio (or what we now call electronics)
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His raclio engineering texts were at one time the seconc! most valuable book property of the McGraw-Hill Book Company, being exceeclec!
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University in 1946 as dean of engineering, he applied his wartime reputation and experience to augmenting the university's income by encouraging research for the U.S. government, which reimbursec!
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at securing gifts of nonstanciarc! but nevertheless entirely workable apparatus.
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some puzzlement at the time, because hardily anybody knew what racier was, much less racier countermeasures. A further factor making Terman a particularly happy choice was his wicle circle of acquaintanceships among radio engineers resulting from his, by then, wiclely react textbooks plus his professional work for the Institute of Raclio Engineers (IRE)
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Getting the right number of jammers to the places where they were needed, and at the right time, was a logistics problem that proved taxing to normal military supply procedures. Civilian assistance proved helpful.
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MIT's example in establishing a transition office whose purpose was to speec! up the passage of equipment through prototype design en c!
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In aciclition to assuming directorship of a rather sizeable organization put together at wartime speecI, Terman also completer! his Radio Engineers' Handbook, a volume particularly remarkable because of the coherence of presentation macle possible by sole authorship.
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from a measurements laboratory he en c! his students built as part of the Stanforc!
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not feel particularly pleaser! to have assistance from a civilian organization.
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for checking jammer frequency coverage. Next came devising the transmitting electronic jammers themseIves plus the passive arrangement cocle-namec!
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noise in spectacularly large amounts. Many of the initial RRL devices used the existing state of the art, but methods for generating random noise or energy sources of extremely high RF power required novel approaches.
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for some countermeasures clepenclec! both on our own frequently changing cleployments en c!
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In the postwar years, an important consideration in winning over non-defense sponsors was the generosity of the funcling macle available when sponsors follower! the Defense Department example.
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the same generous contracting proceclures as those user! by the Defense Department when the relatively penurious approach follower!
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that the work outcome was successful, the more costly the research the greater the resulting prestige. From the individual faculty member's point of view, government sponsorship conferred many advantages, not the least of which was inclepenclence.
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FREDERICK EMMONS TERMAN 327 However, from the standpoint of the university aciministrator, direct support of the incliviclual faculty member could be a clisacivantage, particularly when the objectives of the faculty member clic! not coincide with those of the aciministration.
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22:359-73. 1935 Measurements in Radio Engineering.
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Pan. Frequency response characteristics of amplifiers employing negative feedback.
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330 BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS 1959 Why do we research?
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