William C. Brown

William C. Brown ( May 22, 1916 *, † 3 February 1999) was an American electrical engineer, who in the 1950s in the development of Amplitron (also cross-field amplifier or crossed -field amplifier ) participated.

He earned his bachelor's degree in 1937 in electrical engineering from Iowa State University in 1941 and his master's degree at MIT. As a trainee at RCA, he developed his interest for power electron tubes.

In 1940 he began his work at Raytheon magnetron. To 1952, he adapted the principle of the magnetron to develop a new broadband amplifier for microwave, which led to Amplitron.

In 1961 he published a method for transmitting power using microwaves and demonstrated in 1964 in a television actor a microwave -powered model helicopter. 1969-75 he was Technical Director of Raytheon's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the 30 kW over a mile (1.6 km) transferred with an efficiency of 84%. After Peter Edward Glaser ( b. 1923 ) had vorgschschlagen a solar-powered satellite that transmits microwaves to Earth, Brown tried to realize this idea. In 1994, he went into retirement.

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• Born 1916
• Died in 1999
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