John F. Peters

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John F. Peters
Peters and his klydonograph, pictured in Popular Science, August 1929
Born	John Findley Peters^[1] (1884-09-11)September 11, 1884^[2] near Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, United States
Died	October 31, 1969(1969-10-31) (aged 85)^[3] Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Notable awards	IEEE Edison Medal

John Findley Peters (September 11, 1884 – October 31, 1969) was an American electrical engineer known for his invention of the Klydonograph. He began his career at Westinghouse Electric in 1904.^[4] He received the IEEE Edison Medal for "contributions to the fundamentals of transformer design, his invention of the Klydonograph, his contributions to Military Computers and for his sympathetic understanding in the training of young engineers". He was also awarded the Franklin Institute's Edward Longstreth Medal in 1929.^[5]

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↑ Social Security Death Index.
↑ "John F. Peters ENGINEER - SCIENTIST". Engineering Education (American Society for Engineering Education) 43: 130. 1952. Retrieved 2012-10-06.
↑ "Franklin Laureate Database - Edward Longstreth Medal 1929 Laureates". Franklin Institute. Retrieved November 16, 2011.

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Edison Medal

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1951–1975	Charles F. Wagner (1951) Vladimir K. Zworykin (1952) John F. Peters (1953) Oliver E. Buckley (1954) Leonid A. Umansky (1955) Comfort A. Adams (1956) John K. Hodnette (1957) Charles F. Kettering (1958) James F. Fairman (1959) Harold S. Osborne (1960) William B. Kouwenhoven (1961) Alexander C. Monteith (1962) John R. Pierce (1963) Walker Lee Cisler (1965) Wilmer L. Barrow (1966) George Harold Brown (1967) Charles F. Avila (1968) Hendrik Wade Bode (1969) Howard H. Aiken (1970) John Wistar Simpson (1971) William Hayward Pickering (1972) Bernard D. H. Tellegen (1973) Jan A. Rajchman (1974) Sidney Darlington (1975)

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Name	Peters, John F.
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Date of birth	September 11, 1884
Place of birth	near Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, United States
Date of death	October 31, 1969
Place of death	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

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