Semi Joseph Begun

Semi Joseph Begun ( born December 2, 1905 in Gdansk, † January 5, 1995 in Cleveland, Ohio) was a pioneer of magnetic recording.

Life

Semi J. Begun in 1933 in Berlin acquired his doctorate in electrical engineering. He then went to Lorenz AG, the German subsidiary of ITT. There Begun built, based on the magnetic recording on a wire, his first prototype of a Diktiermaschine that was in the 1930s, very popular in Europe.

In 1935 immigrated Semi J. Begun in the U.S., where he but the broadcasting company could not convince them of the magnetic recording. Begun was then started at Guided Radio, Inc., where he developed a naval communications system that was acquired by the Navy. He had developed at home His magnetic recording.

Begun in 1937 founded his company Acoustic Consultants, Inc., where he developed his sound Mirror, the first commercial magnetic tape recorder in the USA. The following year it the Brush Development Company in Ohio offered a post in the development department.

After the declaration of war Begun developed improved magnetic recorder for military aircraft, underwater microphones and sonar homing devices for torpedoes. He was a member of the National Defense Research Committee and was honored by President Truman.

After the war, Semi J. Begun vice president of the Brush Development Company, where he has introduced new concepts for recording media. Be ideas led to the first demonstration of a video head and a forerunner of the floppy disk, a magnetic on both sides coated paper, called Mail-A -Voice.

When the company in 1952 merged with Cleveland Graphite Bronze Company, Begun was a member of the Supervisory Board. There, he soon brought the merger with Gould National Battery for completion, where Begun Vice President and board member was.

After his Zurruhesetzung in 1971 he founded the consulting firm Auctor Associates.

Semi J. Begun also founded the Society for the Prevention of Violence and Aggression in Children and at John Carroll University in Cleveland Begun the Institute for Studies of Violence and Aggression.