William C. Brown
William C. Brown | |
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| Born | May 22, 1916 |
| Died | February 3, 1999 (aged 82) |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Engineer |
William C. Brown (May 22, 1916 – February 3, 1999) was an American electrical engineer who helped to invent the
microwave power transmission
in the 1960s.
Brown received his BSEE from
microwave energy for power transmission, and in 1964 he demonstrated on Walter Cronkite's CBS Evening News a microwave-powered model helicopter that received all the power needed for flight from a microwave beam.[1]
Between 1969 and 1975 Brown was technical director of a
kilowatts over a distance of 1-mile (1.6 km) at 84% efficiency. He continued to make important contributions to this emerging technology until his retirement from Raytheon in 1984.[2]
See also
- Wireless power transmission
References
- ^ Arthur Fischer (January 1988) Beam-powered Plane, Popular Science, January 1988, p. 61, via Google Books.
- ^ "1995 Brown" (PDF). mtt.org. Retrieved May 12, 2014.[permanent dead link]
External links
- William C. Brown biography at the IEEE Global History Network
- William C. Brown biography on the IEEE MTT-S website
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