David Gordon Tucker

David Gordon Tucker (also Gorda ) (born June 17, 1914 in Chingford , † March 8, 1990 ) was a British engineer and historian.

Life

The son of John Ferry Tucker and Frances Paterson attended Sir George Monoux College , received his B.Sc. in 1936 and his PhD in 1943. and in 1948 the D.Sc.

He spent six years at the Post Office Research Station and five years with the Royal Naval Scientific Service .

He and his wife, Florence Mary Barton, had a daughter and three sons.

In 1955 he was appointed professor and head of the electrical engineering department at the University of Birmingham .

He was considered a leading expert in sonar technology. When he wanted to test a new long-range sonar in the spring of 1968, the Loch Ness Investigation Group (LNI; founded in 1962 as the Loch Ness Phenomena Investigation Bureau ) persuaded him to conduct his tests in April and August at the Temple Pier of Loch Ness perform. On the basis of the film recordings of the oscilloscope , they later recognized a 6 m long, rapidly diving object, and then a whole group of such objects.

After his retirement in 1973, he was appointed to a chair for a year in 1983.

Memberships

Institution of Electrical Engineers
Council of the British Institution of Radio Engineers
Newcomen Socitety

Publications

Highly-selective transmission-measuring equipment for communication circuits ; 1947
The Design of a Synchrodyne Receiver ; Design Principles & Some Suitable Designs ; 1947
The Synchrodyne, A New Type of Radio Receiver for AM Signals ; 1947
with J. Garlick: The Synchrodyne: Refinements and Extensions ; 1948
Rectifier modulators with frequency-selective terminations ; 1949
with RA Seymour: The Synchrodyne As a Precision Demodulator ; 1950
Two notes on the performance of rectifier modulators ; 1952
Modulators & frequency changers
The history of the homodyne and synchrodyne ; 1954
Underwater echo ranging ; 1956
The Future of Non-military Sonar: An Informal Discussion in the Final Session of the Symposium on Sonar Systems, Held at the University of Birmingham 9th-12th July, 1962
Searching the sea with sound ; New Scientist July 19, 1962; P. 134 ( online )
Multiplicative Arrays in Radio-astronomy and Sonar ; 1963
Circuits with periodically varying parameters ; 1964
Elementary electrical network theory ; 1964
Constant-resistance modulators with frequency-selectivity ; 1966
with Brian Kenneth Gazey: Applied underwater acoustics ; 1966
Underwater observation using sonar ; 1966
Sonar in fisheries ; 1967
Gisbert Kapp 1852-1922: First professor of electrical engineering at the University of Birmingham ; 1973
Beginnings of the telephone service ; 1976
Hydroelectricity for public supply in Britain, 1881-1894 ; 1976
Electricity from town refuse — three quarters of a century ago ; 1976
Lucas: the First 100 Years. Vol. 1: The King of the Road ; 1977
Water-mills of the Monnow & Trothy & their tributaries ; 1978
A Technical History of Phantom Circuits ; Proceedings of the IEE, 126 (1979): 893-900
Ayrshire Hone-stones: The Water of Ayr and Tam O'Shanter Hone Works at Stair and the History of the Industry in Britain ; 1983
Water mills of the Middle Wye Valley ; 1983
Some watermills of South-West Shropshire ; 1991

Individual evidence

personal data
SURNAME	Tucker, David Gordon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Tucker, David Gorda
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British engineer and historian
DATE OF BIRTH	June 17, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH	Chingford
DATE OF DEATH	March 8, 1990

[1] New Scientist July 19, 1962; P. 165

[2] ttp://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/t/a/y/Laaurence-A-Taylor/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0128.html

[3] Stuart A. Kallen: The Loch Ness Monster; P. 38

[4] ttp://www.nessie.co.uk/htm/the_evidence/sonar.html

[5] The Glasgow Herald - Dec. 20, 1968