Peder Oluf Pedersen (19 June 1874 – 30 August 1941) was a

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engineer Engineers, as practitioners of engineering, are professionals who invent, design, analyze, build and test machines, complex systems, structures, gadgets and materials to fulfill functional objectives and requirements while considering the l ...

and

physicist A physicist is a scientist who specializes in the field of physics, which encompasses the interactions of matter and energy at all length and time scales in the physical universe. Physicists generally are interested in the root or ultimate caus ...

. 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 The arc converter, sometimes called the arc transmitter, or Poulsen arc after Danish engineer Valdemar Poulsen who invented it in 1903, was a variety of spark transmitter used in early wireless telegraphy. The arc converter used an electric arc ...

known as the Poulsen Arc Transmitter. Pedersen became a professor of telegraphy, telephony and radio in 1912.Biography
from the

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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 The American Institute of Electrical Engineers (AIEE) was a United States-based organization of electrical engineers that existed from 1884 through 1962. On January 1, 1963, it merged with the Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE) to form the Instit ...

and was a member of the British

Institution of Electrical Engineers The Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE) was a British professional organisation of electronics, electrical, manufacturing, and Information Technology professionals, especially electrical engineers. It began in 1871 as the Society of Te ...

. In 1915 he became a Fellow of the

Institute of Radio Engineers The Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE) was a professional organization which existed from 1912 until December 31, 1962. On January 1, 1963, it merged with the American Institute of Electrical Engineers (AIEE) to form the Institute of Electrical a ...

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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 {{physicist-stub

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