John Bellamy Taylor

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John Bellamy Taylor (born August 20, 1875 in Brookline , Massachusetts , † December 20, 1963 ) was an American engineer .

Life

John Taylor was related to Edward Bellamy and graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1897 . He was the son of Washington Irving Taylor (1840-1917) and his wife Ann Maria Bellamy (1849-1950) and had several siblings.

He worked for many years as a research engineer for the General Electric Company in Schenectady . a. 1912/1913 AIEE Schenectady Section Officer and later also Vice President of the AIEE. From 1936 he was a member of the Schenectady Torch Club .

John Taylor's wife, Marcia (née Estabrook Jones) was president of the New York division of the American Association of University Women from 1936 to 1938 . The marriage resulted in a total of four sons and a daughter, including the lawyer Telford Taylor .

John Taylor himself collected musical instruments, among other things. His son Telford Taylor bequeathed the collection of 45 instruments to the Music Department of Williams College in 1990 . John Taylor died at the age of 88.

research

Patents in the field of radio transmission are known from the late 19th century. Based on Irving Langmuir's work, he developed the so-called Langmuir-Taylor detector in 1930 . Among other things, he also researched in the field of wireless light telephony and sound transmission using light waves ("Audible Light"). In 1929 he demonstrated his invented apparatus for wireless lightwave transmission of music to members of the American Institute of Science in the New York Hotel Astor . At that time he called this transmission process to differentiate it from “ broadcasting ” “ narrowcasting ”, albeit in a different meaning than JCR Licklider later did. In 1931 he managed to make such a long-distance call across the Hudson River . In 1932 he tested this transmission technology with a projection apparatus from a zeppelin onto the earth. In November of the same year, his team achieved a transfer record over 24 miles with this method from Schenectady to another team in Lake Desolation.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ AIEE Schenectady Section Officers 1903-1945. In: IEEE Schenectady Section History .
  2. ^ Former members - T , Schenectady Torch Club.
  3. ↑ In: MRS Webb named to Library Group by State AAUW Schenectady Gazette, May 24, 1938, p. 6
  4. ^ John B. Taylor Instrument Collection. In: Albert R. Rice: AMIS Directory of musical instrument collections: United States of America. ( online )
  5. ^ Obituary in The Daily Reporter, Dover, Ohio, Dec. 21, 1963, p. 44.
  6. ^ US patents to Bellamy Taylor John . (For more of his patents, see the search for John B Taylor .)
  7. ↑ Music by light! In: Popular Science, June 1929, p. 51. ( limited preview in Google book search)
  8. ↑ Telephony on a light beam. Radio News, December 1931, pp. 466-467. ( pdf )
  9. ↑ Talking from the sky on a beam of light. In: The Georgia Tech Alumnus, Issue 11, No. 1, September – October 1932, p. 3. ( online )
  10. ^ Scientists talk over light beam. In: The Montreal Gazette , November 23, 1923, p. 7 .
personal data
SURNAME Taylor, John Bellamy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American engineer
DATE OF BIRTH August 20, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Brookline , Massachusetts
DATE OF DEATH December 20, 1963