Albert H. Taylor
Albert Hoyt Taylor (born 1 January 1879 in Chicago, Illinois, † December 11, 1961 in Los Angeles, California ) was an American electrical engineer who made major contributions to the development of radar provided.
Biography
1896 Taylor began his studies at Northwestern University in Chicago. He was hired in 1899 at the Western Electric Company in 1990 and returned back to the university. He interrupted his studies again for lack of money and although only lacked one semester, he took a job as a teacher at Michigan State College. Was awarded his Bachelor of Science from Northwestern University until the year 1902. From 1903 to 1908 he taught at the University of Wisconsin- Madison. After that he went on a study trip to Germany and a Ph.D. from the University of Göttingen in 1909. Afterwards, he joined the faculty of the University of North Dakota, where he built an experimental radio station for studies on antennas and wave propagation. His work in this capacity he continued until 1917.
On March 13, 1917 Taylor was appointed lieutenant in the U.S. Naval Reserve Force. After the outbreak of the First World War he was engaged as a telecommunications officer of the Ninth Naval District. Until October 17, 1917, he was for the position of Head of the Telecommunications Department in Washington DC assigned. Then he was up to the July 25, 1918 Telecommunications top officer at the transmitter of the Navy in Belmar, New Jersey. Later he became a research laboratory at the Naval Air Station in Hampton Roads for the development of devices for communications on board aircraft. He then became head of the aeronautical laboratories of the Air Force at the naval base in Anacostia, Washington DC He was appointed on 8 June 1918 Commander of U.S. Naval Reserve Force and transported on 14 November 1918 Commander of the U.S. Naval Reserve Force. In 1922 he resigned from active service in the Navy, but remained as a civilian employee in the service of the armed forces.
In the fall of 1922, Taylor and Leo C. Young conducted experiments with the radio station of the laboratory on the Potomac, when they noticed that a wooden ship on the river interfered with the transmission of the signals. In fact, they have successfully demonstrated the function of the first interferometric continuous-wave radar. The following year, the Naval Research Laboratory ( NRL ) in the USA was founded and Taylor appointed Head of the Department radio. In the early 1930s came as German and British scientists in this department the idea to make use of a pulsating radio stations for the detection of targets and measuring their distance. Taylor had one of his assistants, Robert Morris, to, to build a prototype and test it. This prototype was presented in 1934 and was an aircraft at a distance of a mile recognize. In 1937, his team developed a practical on-board radar for the Navy, the so-called CXAM radar - a technology very similar to the British Chain Home radar system.
In 1929, Taylor was president of the Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE ) and from 1936 to 1942 he was a member of the Communication Committee of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers. Both organizations were predecessor of the current Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ( IEEE).
Taylor remained with the NRL until his retirement in 1948. He died in 1961, a few weeks before his 83rd birthday.