Charles Orr Stanley

CBE The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the civil service. It was established o ...

(15 April 1899 – 18 January 1989) was a businessman who played an important role in the early development of commercial radio and television in Great Britain, especially in his role as head of

Pye Ltd. Pye Ltd was an electronics company founded in 1896 in Cambridge, England, as a manufacturer of scientific instruments. The company merged with EKCO in 1960. Philips of the Netherlands acquired a majority shareholding in 1967, and later gained f ...

Pye produced receivers for use in

Chain Home Chain Home, or CH for short, was the codename for the ring of coastal Early Warning radar stations built by the Royal Air Force (RAF) before and during the Second World War to detect and track aircraft. Initially known as RDF, and given the off ...

, the British coastal defence radar system, and helped with the supply of

EF50 In the field of electronics, the EF50 is an early all-glass wideband remote cutoff pentode designed in 1938 by Philips. It was a landmark in the development of vacuum tube technology, departing from construction ideas of the time essentially uncha ...

valves for later British radar operating at

VHF Very high frequency (VHF) is the ITU designation for the range of radio frequency electromagnetic waves (radio waves) from 30 to 300 megahertz (MHz), with corresponding wavelengths of ten meters to one meter. Frequencies immediately below VHF ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Stanley, Charles Orr 1899 births 1989 deaths Commanders of the Order of the British Empire English electrical engineers 20th-century English businesspeople