Edwin Armstrong - Revision history

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Stephen.wang at 05:44, 3 March 2008

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Pacman: Edwin Howard Armstrong moved to Edwin Armstrong

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Edwin Howard Armstrong moved to Edwin Armstrong

Absentminded at 00:43, 14 September 2007

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Absentminded at 00:42, 14 September 2007

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-'''Edwin Howard Armstrong''' [[SEAS]]? [[1913]] was an American electrical engineer who invented FM radio and its underlying receiver and transmitter technology.
+'''Edwin Howard Armstrong''' [[SEAS]] [[1913]] was an American electrical engineer who invented FM radio and its underlying receiver and transmitter technology.
 Armstrong did some work for [[Michael Pupin]] while a student, then after graduation. Eventually, he managed to work his way into a Columbia professorship this way somehow.

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 Armstrong did some work for [[Michael Pupin]] while a student, then after graduation. Eventually, he managed to work his way into a Columbia professorship this way somehow.
-Much of Armstrong's work, including the regenerative circuit, super regenerative circuit, and superheterodyne receiver was conceived in the basement of [[Philosophy Hall]], doing much of the work as an undergraduate in the [[Electrical Engineering]] Department. The [[Supreme Court]] later awarded Lee De Forest the patent for Armstrong's receiver technology after a prolonged 12 year patent dispute. Armstrong was later pwn3d again by RCA in a patent dispute over FM technology.
+Much of Armstrong's work, including the regenerative circuit, super regenerative circuit, and superheterodyne receiver was conceived in the basement of [[Philosophy Hall]], doing much of the work as an undergraduate in the [[Electrical Engineering]] Department.
 The patent dispute proved so financially and emotionally ruinous that Armstrong subsequently committed [[suicide]] in [[1954]], jumping out of his 13th floor apartment; coincidentally, Columbia's electrical engineering department is housed on the 13th floor of [[Mudd]].

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 [[Category:Class of 1913|Armstrong]]
 [[Category:Former professors|Armstrong]]
-[[Category:Engineering professors|Armstrong]]
+[[Category:Electrical engineering professors|Armstrong]]
 [[Category:Suicides|Armstrong]]
 [[Category:Scandals|Edwin Armstrong]]
 [[Category:Great Teacher Award recipients]]

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-'''Edwin Howard Armstrong''' was an American electrical engineer who invented FM radio and its underlying receiver and transmitter technology.
+'''Edwin Howard Armstrong''' [[SEAS]]? [[1913]] was an American electrical engineer who invented FM radio and its underlying receiver and transmitter technology.
-Much of Armstrong's work, including the regenerative circuit, super regenerative circuit, and superheterodyne receiver was conceived in the basement of [[Philosophy Hall]], doing much of the work as an undergraduate in the [[Electrical Engineering]] Department. The Supreme Court later awarded Lee De Forest the patent for Armstrong's receiver technology after a prolonged 12 year patent dispute. Armstrong was later pwn3d again by RCA in a patent dispute over FM technology.
+Armstrong did some work for [[Michael Pupin]] while a student, then after graduation. Eventually, he managed to work his way into a Columbia professorship this way somehow.
-The patent dispute proved so financially and emotionally ruinous that Armstrong subsequently committed [[suicide]] in [[1954]], jumping out of his 13th floor apartment; coincidentally, Columbia's electrical engineering department is housed on the 13th floor of Mudd.
+Much of Armstrong's work, including the regenerative circuit, super regenerative circuit, and superheterodyne receiver was conceived in the basement of [[Philosophy Hall]], doing much of the work as an undergraduate in the [[Electrical Engineering]] Department. The [[Supreme Court]] later awarded Lee De Forest the patent for Armstrong's receiver technology after a prolonged 12 year patent dispute. Armstrong was later pwn3d again by RCA in a patent dispute over FM technology.
 Armstrong is one of Columbia's most distinguished alumni and his work with FM led to the declaration of [[Philosophy Hall]] as a National Historic Landmark in [[2003]].
 [[Category:SEAS alumni|Armstrong]]
 [[Category:Former professors|Armstrong]]
 [[Category:Suicides|Armstrong]]
 [[Category:Scandals|Edwin Armstrong]]
 [[Category:Great Teacher Award recipients]]

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-'''Edwin Howard Armstrong''' was an American electrical engineer who invented FM radio and its underlying receiver and transmitter technology. Much of Armstrong's work, including the regenerative circuit, super regenerative circuit, and superheterodyne receiver was conceived in the basement of [[Philosophy Hall]], doing much of the work as an undergraduate in the [[Electrical Engineering]] Department. The Supreme Court later awarded Lee De Forest the patent for Armstrong's receiver technology after a prolonged 12 year patent dispute. Armstrong was later pwn3d again by RCA in a patent dispute over FM technology. The patent dispute proved so financially and emotionally ruinous that Armstrong subsequently committed [[suicide]] in [[1954]], jumping out of his 13th floor apartment; coincidentally, Columbia's electrical engineering department is housed on the 13th floor of Mudd. Armstrong is one of Columbia's most distinguished alumni and his work with FM led to the declaration of Philosophy Hall as a National Historic Landmark in 2003.
+'''Edwin Howard Armstrong''' was an American electrical engineer who invented FM radio and its underlying receiver and transmitter technology.
 [[Category:SEAS alumni|Armstrong]]

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 [[Image:EdwinHowardArmstrong.jpg|thumb|180px|Edwin Howard Armstrong]]
-[[Image:102philosophy1.jpg|thumb|240px|Edwin Armstrong's laboratory in 102 Philosophy]]
+[[Image:102philosophy1.jpg|thumb|240px|Edwin Armstrong's laboratory in [[102 Philosophy]]]]
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