Gustave-Auguste Ferrié

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Gustave Ferrié
Ferrié in 1932
Born(1868-11-19)19 November 1868
Saint-Michel-de-Maurienne, France
Died16 February 1932(1932-02-16) (aged 63)
Paris, France
NationalityFrench
AwardsFranklin Medal (1923)
IEEE Medal of Honor (1931)
Scientific career
FieldsElectrical engineering

Gustave-Auguste Ferrié (19 November 1868 – 16 February 1932) was a French radio pioneer and army general.[1]

with Yvonne Printemps and Sacha Guitry

Biography

Early years

Ferrié was born in

telegraph service. After being named to a committee exploring wireless telegraphy between France and England, in 1899 he carried out such communications in collaboration with Guglielmo Marconi
.

He exposed his works on 22 August 1900, when the International congress of electricity was organised in Paris. His works had the title : “L'état actuel et les progrès de la télégraphie sans fil” (Current state and progress of wireless telegraphy).

In 1903 Ferrié invented a novel

Reginald A. Fessenden (1903), and W. Schloemilch (1903). That same year he also proposed setting aerials on the Eiffel Tower
for long-range radiotelegraphy. Under his direction a transmitter was set up in the tower, and its effective range increased from an initial 400 km (250 mi) to 6,000 km (3,700 mi) by 1908. He then developed mobile transmitters for military units.

World War I

Ferrié headed the French Radiotelegraphie Militaire before and during World War I, where in 1914 he led two linked advances in military radio communications : practical ground telegraphy made feasible by the adoption of vacuum tubes within radio receivers. The transmitter was a buzzer, and the receiver an amplifier with triode. By the end of the war the French had produced almost 10,000 such sets.

Captain Paul Brenot headed the second group of Ferrié's Military Telegraphic Service. Members of the group included

Maurice de Broglie, Paul Laüt and Lucien Lévy.[2] Lévy was made head of the Eiffel Tower Military Radio Telegraphy laboratory in 1916.[3]

Later career

Ferrié was made a General in 1919 and so remained until his death, having been exempted from retirement rules by a special law of 1930, and became general inspector of military telegraphy.

Ferrié was named a Fellow of the

International Scientific Radio Union (U.R.S.I.) and the International Commission on Longitudes by Radio, and vice president of the International Board of Scientific Unions. Ferrié was the president of the Société astronomique de France (SAF), the French astronomical society, from 1925–1927.[4] In 1927, he received the Prix Jules Janssen
, the highest award of SAF.

Ferrié died on 16 February 1932, at the Val-du-Grâce military hospital in Paris. Several hours after his death he was awarded the

Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour
.

Today the Espace Ferrié (Musée des Transmissions) continues his memory in Cesson-Sévigné. A college named "collège Ferrié" is located in Draguignan and in the 10th arrondissement of Paris.

See also

References

  1. ^ Gustave-Auguste Ferrié. Encyclopaedia Britannica
  2. ISBN 978-3-319-55239-2
    .
  3. ^ Lucien LÉVY 1892–1965) In Memoriam.
  4. ^ Bulletin de la Société astronomique de France, November 1937, plates X-IX

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