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... Jordan, head of the Electrical Engineering Department of the University of Illinois introduced Harold Wheeler as "Mr. Radio." Professor Jordan called Wheeler, "without a doubt the most distinguished living pioneer in the field once called radio, a field which now has developed and broadened into the modern fields of electronics, computers, and communications." Harold Alden Wheeler died on April 25,1996, in Ventura, Cali~ .
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From page 280...
... In 1922 Wheeler met Alan Hazeltine, professor of electrical engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology, who was an inventor and pioneer in applying mathematical analysis to the design of radio equipment. Hazeltine had used these methods in his design of a World War I radio receiver for the U.S.
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From page 281...
... This was an invention made by Wheeler in 1925, which maintained a constant sound level from a radio receiver while tuning to various broadcasting signals of differing strengths. AM radio receivers incorporating this AVC circuit came into use about 1930, and it has been included in every set since then.
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From page 282...
... In 1959 Hazeltine acquired Wheeler Labs, and Harold Wheeler returned to Hazeltine as a director and chief consulting engineer. Later, he became chairman and then chairman emeritus.
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From page 283...
... He served on several committees of the IRE and was the chairman of the Radio Receiver Committee, which issued a Standard Guide for Testing Radio Receivers, used in many countries. Wheeler was a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a fellow of the IRE, American Institute of Electrical Engineers, the IEEE, and a director of the IRE from 1940 to 1945.
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From page 284...
... , nowwith BAE Systems, formerly Hazeltine Corporation ancI a colleague of Harold Wheeler for more than forty years.
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