Richard Ralston Hough (; 1917 – July 9, 1992) was a
Bell Labs engineer and
AT&T executive.
Biography
Hough was born in
Trenton, New Jersey, and attended Trenton High School. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in 1939 and a graduate degree in 1940 in
electrical engineering
Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems which use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. It emerged as an identifiable occupation in the l ...
from
Princeton University. While at Princeton, he was on the school's swimming team and set several world records in that sport.
In 1980 Hough received the
IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal for his role in the introduction of electronic
telephone switching.
He was inaugurated into the
International Swimming Hall of Fame in 1970.
He died in a crash in 1992, when the private plane he was piloting experienced engine failure near
Concord, New Hampshire
Concord () is the capital city of the U.S. state of New Hampshire and the seat of Merrimack County. As of the 2020 census the population was 43,976, making it the third largest city in New Hampshire behind Manchester and Nashua.
The village of ...
.
See also
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List of members of the International Swimming Hall of Fame
The International Swimming Hall of Fame
The International Swimming Hall of Fame and Museum (ISHOF) is a history museum and hall of fame, located at One Hall of Fame Drive, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States, operated by private interests a ...
References
External links
Hough's bio at IEEE History Center written 1980
Memorial Tribute to Hough 1993,
National Academy of Engineering
1917 births
1992 deaths
American electrical engineers
Scientists at Bell Labs
Princeton Tigers men's swimmers
Princeton University alumni
20th-century American engineers
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