Leonard F. Fuller

Life

Fuller attended the Portland Academy with the completion in 1908 and Cornell University with a master's degree in electrical engineering in 1912. Afterwards he went to the National Electric Signaling Company in Brooklyn and after a few months the Federal Telegraph Company in San Francisco, whose chief engineer, he was in 1913. There he constructed large arc transmitters with outputs of up to 1 MW for the U.S. Army and the U.S. Navy. They were installed for transoceanic communication alongside the United States in France, Panama, Hawaii and the Philippines.

In World War I he was in the submarine defense at the National Research Council while studying at Stanford University, where he received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 1919.

In 1919 he founded the Colin B. Kennedy Company in San Francisco, which manufactured radios. He also worked as a consulting engineer for electricity companies. 1921/22, he installed a wire radio - telephone system to high-voltage lines, the first of its kind from 1923 to 1926 he worked and radio receivers at General Electric in Schenectady and then in their store in San Francisco in high voltage engineering and application of vacuum tubes. Among other things, he established a communication link to high-voltage lines from Los Angeles to Hoover Dam.

Then he went back to the Federal Telegraph Company in their factory in Palo Alto as executive vice president and chief engineer.

From 1930 to 1943 he was professor of electrical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. As a friend of Ernest Orlando Lawrence, he helped in the construction of the first cyclotron at Berkeley Radiation Laboratory. 1946 until his retirement in 1954 he was a professor at Stanford University and co-ordinated research contracts with industry.

Leonard Fuller held 24 patents. He received the 1919 IEEE Morris N. Liebmann first Memorial Award. He was a Fellow of the Institute of Radio Engineers, the American Institute of Electrical Engineers and the American Physical Society.