R. M. Foster

Ronald Martin Foster ( born October 3, 1896 † February 2nd, 1998 Belmar, Monmouth County, New Jersey ) was an American engineer who worked at Bell Labs in electronic filters for telephone lines. Its publication in 1924, A reactance theorem ( Reaktanztheorem ) inspired Wilhelm Cauer to its network synthesis.

He had studied at Harvard and worked at AT & T (later Bell) on symbolic logic, Fourier integrals and Electrical network theory. From 1943 to 1963 he was a professor at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn.

On April 12, 1924, he married Annabel Conover.

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  • Personality of Electrical Engineering
  • Mathematicians ( 20th century)
  • University teachers ( Polytechnic Institute of New York University)
  • Americans
  • Born 1896
  • Died in 1998
  • Man
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