Edy Velander

Frans Edvard "Edy" Hubert Velander (born May 4, 1894 , † November 26, 1961 in Stockholm ) was a Swedish electrical engineer .

His parents were Edvard Velander and Jenny Richter (1866–1938). After his father died shortly after his birth, he grew up with his brothers in Skara .

He graduated from the Royal Technical University of Stockholm with the best grades in electrical engineering in 1916 . He then studied at the Technical University of Berlin -Charlottenburg and at Harvard University , where he obtained his master's degree in 1918 . Between 1917 and 1919 he was an assistant in the electrotechnical research department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . In 1920 he received an offer from Vattenfall , returned to Sweden and worked out a plan to compensate for temporary peak loads .

When Föreningen för Elektricitetens Rationella Användning (FERA; Association for the Rational Use of Electricity) was founded in 1927 , he became editor of ERA magazine and as such was interested in questions of safety, tariffs and statistics on electricity consumption.

Between 1938 and 1940 he was deputy president of the Ingenjörsvetenskapsakademien (IVA; Royal Academy of Engineering) and its president from 1941 to 1959.

Around 1946 he was in close contact with Vannevar Bush and was a member of the National Committee on Mathematical Machines , which was to build Swedish computers. In 1963 the BESK (Binary Electronic Sequence Calculator) was introduced.

Velander was married to the teacher Mai Halle from 1917 to 1952, with whom he had two daughters. From 1952 to 1961 he was married to Stina Hallman.

Publications

• Wartime organization of scientific engineering research in Sweden ; Friebele Press (1944)

Web links

• About Velander at the Ingenjörsvetenskapsakademien (Swedish)
• cesis (PDF file; 140 kB)