Peder Oluf Pedersen (19 June 1874 – 30 August 1941) was a
Danish
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* Something of, from, or related to the country of Denmark
People
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engineer and
physicist. He is notable for his work on electrotechnology and his cooperation with
Valdemar Poulsen
Valdemar Poulsen (23 November 1869 – 23 July 1942) was a Danish engineer who made significant contributions to early radio technology. He developed a magnetic wire recorder called the telegraphone in 1898 and the first continuous wave radio ...
on the developmental work on
Wire recorder
Wire recording or magnetic wire recording was the first magnetic recording technology, an analog type of audio storage in which a magnetic recording is made on a thin steel wire. The first crude magnetic recorder was invented in 1898 by Valde ...
s, which he called a telegraphone, and the
arc converter known as the Poulsen Arc Transmitter.
Pedersen became a professor of telegraphy, telephony and radio in 1912.
[Biography]
from the IEEE History Center retrieved 2011 Sept 28
He became principal of the
College of Advanced Technology (''Den Polytekniske Læreanstalt'') in 1922, a title he held until his death. He was a Fellow of the
American Institute of Electrical Engineers and was a member of the British
Institution of Electrical Engineers. In 1915 he became a Fellow of the
Institute of Radio Engineers.
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See also
* Tikker
References
External links
Biography
from PAST (Portal to Artifacts of Science and Technology)
Photos
from Polytech Photos
Pedersen's gravestone
1874 births
1941 deaths
People from Varde Municipality
Danish engineers
Danish physicists
IEEE Medal of Honor recipients
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