Charles Concordia

Charles Concordia (20 June 1908 – 25 December 2003) was a noted American

Biography

Concordia was born in Schenectady, New York. In 1926 he went directly from high school to General Electric as a test engineer. In 1934 he graduated from its Advanced Engineering Program and worked at General Electric until 1973. His early engineering work concerned television and detecting cracks in railway rails by magnetic field measurements.

During World War II he worked on generators and turbines for naval destroyer propulsion, researched aircraft superchargers, and helped develop ships' electrical drives. In the 1940s he chaired the American Institute of Electrical Engineers (AIEE) subcommittee on large-scale computing devices and continued consulting after the war. He married Frances Butler in 1948. In 1971 he earned a D.Sc. from Union College and later received an honorary D.Sc. from Iowa State University.

Concordia was a Fellow of the

• IEEE History Center biography
• Electro Science biography
• IEEE Interview by Frederick Nebeker