Harold Alden Wheeler

Harold Alden Wheeler ( born May 10, 1903 in Saint Paul ( Minnesota), † April 25, 1996 in Ventura ( California)) was an American electrical engineer.

His parents were William Archibald Wheeler and Harriet Marie Alden Wheeler ( a descendant of John and Priscilla Alden ). The family lived for several years in Mitchell (South Dakota) and then moved to Washington, DC.

He studied physics at George Washington University, earned his Bachelor of Science degree in 1925 and continued his studies until 1928 at the Johns Hopkins University continues.

He also worked at the radio laboratory of the National Institute of Standards and starting in 1922 with Prof. Louis Alan Hazeltine at Stevens Institute of Technology, after they had found out that they had invented independently the straight receiver Neutrodyne. In this, the floating capacitance between the triode grids was neutralized. In 1924, he became the first employee of the Hazeltine Corporation and developed in 1925 the first receiver with automatic volume control. When he 1930-1939 the Hazeltine laboratory in Bayside, Long Iceland, headed, he received 126 patents. When it was established in 1939 to Little Neck, Long Iceland, misplaced, he became vice-president and chief engineer. Now he worked at FM and TV reception.

During World War II he worked on the equipment for the friend - foe identification. In 1946 he founded in Great Neck and Smithtown on Long Iceland, the Wheeler Laboratories, Inc. for the development of microwave circuits, antennas for missile tracking systems and homing radar. When his company was acquired by Hazeltine in 1959, he became a director and vice - president.

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• Born in 1903
• Died in 1996
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