Edwin King Stodola

Edwin King Stodola (October 31, 1914–April, 1992) was an American electrical engineer.

He was born in Brooklyn, New York,[1] and graduated from Cooper Union with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering in 1936, then an E.E. degree in 1947.[2][3] In 1936, he worked with Radio Engineering Laboratories, then he joined the U.S. Signal Corps in 1939 as a radio engineer. In 1941, during World War II, he was stationed at the Evans Signal Laboratory near Belmar, New Jersey.[2]

Following the war, Stodola was a member of Project Diana, an Signal Corps project to investigate long range radar. Led by John H. DeWitt, Jr., this group consisted of a five-man team with Stodola as the chief scientist.[4] During a test on January 10, 1946, this team became the first to bounce a radio signal off the moon and detect the resulting echo.[5][6]

He left the Signal Corps in 1947 and became an engineer with Reeves Instrument Corporation.[2] Stodola received the Presidential Citation from Cooper Union in 1978 in recognition of his contributions to radar and radar tracking systems.[7] In 1983 he moved to Central Florida.[1] He was married to Rose B. Stodola and the couple had a son, Robert King, and three daughters, Cynthia Pomerleau, Leslie Darland and Sherry Rapport.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Edwin King Stodola, 77, 1960". Orlando Sentinel. April 8, 1992. http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1992-04-08/news/9204081033_1_stodola-robert-king-lamay. Retrieved 2011-06-12. 
  2. ^ a b c "Contributions to the procedings of the IEEE". 1949. p. 275. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel5/10933/35793/01697978.pdf. Retrieved 2011-06-12. 
  3. ^ "Alumni Hall of Fame Members". The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. http://www.cualumni.com/s/1289/indexNoRtcol.aspx?pgid=461&gid=1. Retrieved 2011-06-12. 
  4. ^ Buderi, Robert (1998). The Invention That Changed the World: How a Small Group of Radar Pioneers Won the Second World War and Launched a Technological Revolution. The Sloan technology series. Simon & Schuster. p. 275. ISBN 0684835290. 
  5. ^ Butrica, Andrew J.. "A Meteoric Start". SP_4218 To See the Unseen. http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4218/ch1.htm. Retrieved 2011-06-12. 
  6. ^ Hochheiser, Sheldon (September 8, 2008). "Project Diana". IEEE Global History Network. http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Project_Diana. Retrieved 2011-06-12. 
  7. ^ "Melbourne resident E. King Stodola recently received the...". Orlando Sentinel. September 30, 1987. http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1987-09-30/news/0150130114_1_stodola-alma-mater-cooper-union. Retrieved 2011-06-12. 

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