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[[image - black & white photograph of Dr. Erst F.W. Alexanderson with a radio ear-piece in his right ear]]

Alexanderson was GE radio pioneer

Dr. Ernst F.W. Alexanderson, inventor of the high-frequency alternator which gave America its start in the field of radio communication, was 97 years old when he died at his Schenectady, N.Y., home in May.

A contemporary of Steinmetz and Marconi, Dr. Alexanderson was an engineer whose creative talent led to the receipt of 322 patents during his 46-year GE career.

A native of Sweden, Alexanderson received an electrical-mechanical engineering degree from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm in 1900.

At the Technical University in Berlin the following year for post-graduate study, he read a textbook by Dr. Charles P. Steinmetz and came to the United States later in 1901 to seek work with the author, GE's mathematical genius.

Among his notable radio developments were the magnetic amplifier, the electronic amplifier, the multiple tuned antenna, the anti-static receiving antenna and the directional transmitting antenna.

And it was his pioneering work that led to the first home television reception--in Alexanderson's house--in 1927 and the first public TV demonstration one year later in a Schenectady theater.

Dr. Alexanderson was a consulting engineer in the Company's General Engineering and Consulting Laboratory when he retired in 1948.
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^[[From May - June MONOGRAM 1975]]