William Eccles

William Henry Eccles ( born August 23, 1875 in Barrow-in- Furness, Lancashire, † April 29, 1966 in Oxford, England ) was a British physicist who pioneered in the development of broadcasting technology.

Eccles received his doctorate from the Royal College of Science in London in 1901 and then taught 1902-1916 at South Western Polytechnic in the capital. Later he became a follower of Silvanus Thompson at City and Guilds Technical College in London, where he worked until 1926.

Eccles was an early supporter of the ideas Heaviside that an upper layer within the Earth's atmosphere would be able to reflect radio waves. Thus, one possibility would be given to send radio waves over much longer distances than it would allow the curvature of the earth's surface. Eccles also suggested 1912 that the solar radiation for the different propagation speeds of the waves is responsible during the night and day. He experimented with detectors and radio amplifiers and examined the atmospheric disturbances ( " sferics " ) radio reception.

Together with Frank W. Jordan in search of counter circuits, succeeded in 1919 with radio tubes, the originally named after both as Eccles -Jordan circuitry of each other feedback amplifiers. (Radio Review December 1919 p 143 ff) The term flip-flop are onomatopoeic sounds again, caused by lying in one of the outputs for the speakers Kippvorgängen. The circuit is of fundamental importance in computer technology.

Eccles was added in 1921 as a member ( "Fellow" ) to the Royal Society.

Works

• Handbook of wireless telegraphy. (1915 )
• Continuous Wave Wireless Telegraphy. ( 1921)

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• Physicist ( 20th century)
• Member of the Royal Society
• Briton
• Born 1875
• Died in 1966
• Man