- Edmond Bruce
Edmond Bruce (September 28, 1899 - November 28, 1973) was an American radio pioneer best known for creating the
rhombic antenna andBruce array .Bruce was born in
Saint Louis, Missouri , and raised inCambridge, Massachusetts ,Brooklyn , andWashington, D.C. In 1917 he left high school to join the Navy and was eventually chief radio electrician in the transatlantic communication service, serving at theOtter Cliffs Radio Station inBar Harbor ,Maine . He then studied atGeorge Washington University , 1919, and atMassachusetts Institute of Technology , 1920-1924, from which he receive his batchelor's degree in electrical communication. From 1921-1923 he also worked forMelville Eastham 's Clapp-Eastham Company.In 1924 he joined the
Western Electric Company , and in 1925 became a research engineer atBell Telephone Laboratories , where he helped developshort-wave radio receivers and field strength measuring equipment, and designeddirectional antenna s for short-wave radio communication, including his celebratedrhombic antenna (1931).Karl Jansky used a steerableBruce array in his earliestradio astronomy experiments, also in 1931.Bruce received the 1932
IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award "for his theoretical investigations and field developments in the domain of directional antennas", and theFranklin Institute 's 1935 Longstreth Award for inventing therhombic antenna .Patents
* [http://www.pentodepress.com/receiving/patents/2285565.pdf Patent 2,285,565]
Selected works
* Bruce, E., Beck, A.C., Lowry, L.R., "Horizontal Rhombic Antennas", Proceedings of the IRE, volume 23, issue 1, Jan. 1935, pages 24-46.
References
* [http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel5/10933/35478/01685103.pdf Proceedings of the IRE, 1932]
* [http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel5/10933/35508/01685757.pdf Author biograph, Proceedings of the Institute of Radio Engineers, Volume 23, Number 1. January 1935.]
* [http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/search/IGI/individual_record.asp?recid=100046989283&lds=1®ion=11®ionfriendly=North+America&frompage=99 Genealogical record]
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