Rudolf Goldschmidt
German engineer
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Rudolf Goldschmidt was a German engineer and inventor, best known for the development of the Goldschmidt alternator radio transmitter, and the tone wheel receiver. Biography Early life Goldschmidt was born on March 19, 1876, in Neubukow, Mecklenburg, Germany, and grew up in that country. He studied engineering at Charlottenburg and Darmstadt Technical High School, and was awarded an electrical engineer degree at Technische Hochschule Darmstadt in January 1898. Beginning in 1899 he published numerous articles on various branches of electrical engineering. In 1900 he received a college and traveling scholarship, and visited engineering works in Belgium, England, and France. Later that year he was appointed engineer in the laboratory of the Allgemeine Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft AG in Berlin. In 1901-1902 he was chief laboratory engineer and designer for Kolben and Company, Ltd., in Prague. He came to England in connection with the Willesden Electricity Supply Station, and was later appointed chief engineer to Crompton and Company in Chelmsford. In 1905 he joined the Westinghouse Company at Manchester.
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