Maurice Deloraine (1898–1991) was a French engineer, executive and technical director of
International Telephone and Telegraph
ITT Inc., formerly ITT Corporation, is an American worldwide manufacturing company based in Stamford, Connecticut. The company produces specialty components for the aerospace, transportation, energy and industrial markets. ITT's three businesse ...
. Deloraine was strongly involved in the development of the so-called
Huff-Duff
High-frequency direction finding, usually known by its abbreviation HF/DF or nickname huff-duff, is a type of radio direction finder (RDF) introduced in World War II. High frequency (HF) refers to a radio band that can effectively communicate ov ...
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[Maurice Deloraine, ''When telecom and ITT were young'', Lehigh Books, 1976.]
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1898 births
1991 deaths
ESPCI Paris alumni
20th-century French inventors
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