Winston E. Kock

Edward Winston Kock (* 1909, † 1982) was an American electrical engineer and researcher, and under the pseudonym Wayne Kirk novelist.

Life

Winston E. Kock learned from the age of four years of piano. At the University of Cincinnati, he studied electrical engineering and at the Cincinnati College of Music in piano and organ.

In the early 1930s Kock built as part of his diploma thesis, an electronic organ with 70 pipes. Since these were expensive, he used instead of vacuum tubes small neon tubes. He examined the intermittent glow discharge. In 1932 he received his diploma in electrical engineering in 1933 and his Master of Science.

In the spring of 1933 Kock went as an exchange student at the Technical University of Berlin, where he was at the Heinrich Hertz Institute for vibration research assistant to Karl Willy Wagner and his doctorate. He also collaborated with Oskar Vierling. In exchange Sigismund went from Brown, brother of Wernher von Braun, to Cincinnati.

In 1935 Kock applied for a patent for the use of Formantschaltkreisen in electronic organs. In December 1933 he had requested from Berlin for the inductive Glimmentladungsoszillator a U.S. patent, which was granted to him in 1936 under the title Electrical musical instrument.

From Berlin he went, sponsored by the Baldwin Piano Company in Cincinnati, at the Indian Institute of Music & Arts ( IIMA ) in Bangalore, where he conducted research on timbre and the acoustics of musical instruments. In 1936 he was research director at the Baldwin Piano Company.

Shortly after the USA entered the war in late 1941 left Kock the Baldwin Piano Company and began working at Bell Telephone Laboratories, where he conducted research at the Fire -control radar for the U.S. Navy. In 1951, he was with Bell Director of Acoustics Research and 1955 for Audio and Video Research. During this time, Winston E. Kock worked on the band compression for voice transmission and initiated the development of a videophone over regular phone lines, in 1964, a limited commercial service was recorded. He was also involved in projects on water sound.

Because of his interest in submarine detection Kock moved in 1956 to the Bendix Corporation, which played a pioneering role in sonar research. Between 1958 and 1962 he rose to vice president there. Kock took this part in the development of Dunked sonar, which is dipped into the sea from helicopters. He also worked on radar, lasers, holography and the drive mechanism for control rods in nuclear submarines. When NASA opened its research center in Cambridge, Winston E. Kock was the first director of the center.

In 1966 he returned to Bendix and focused on the exploration of acoustic holography, a field in which Kock gained international prominence. After Kock was there retired in 1971, he became director of the Herman Schneider Laboratory of the University of Cincinnati. From this he had received in 1952 an honorary doctorate, and in the university archives and his legacy is preserved.

Writings

  • The inductive glow discharge oscillator and its application to the production of music. 1933rd German: The inductive Glimmentladungsoszillator and its potential applications. Barth, Leipzig, 1934.
  • Sound waves and light waves. 1965th German: sound waves and light waves: The Fundamentals of wave motion. Translated from English by H. D. beans. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York 1971, ISBN 3-540-05358-1. ( Understandable Science, Volume 109: Natural Sciences Department)
  • Lasers and Holography. An introduction to coherent optics. In 1969.
  • Seeing Sound. 1971st German: sound made ​​visible. Translated from English by H.-D. Beans. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York 1974, ISBN 3-540-06629-2. ( Understandable Science, Volume 112: Natural Sciences Department)
  • Engineering Applications of Lasers and Holography. In 1975.
  • A Real -Time Parallel Optical Processing Technique. In 1975.
  • The Creative Engineer: The Art of Inventing. New York 1978.
  • Under the pseudonym Wayne Kirk: Love 's Warm Sun. The Story of a Bright Young Engineer and a Beautiful Young Girl. New York 1982.
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