Interesting that the letter was dated June 13th, as that is James Clerk Maxwell's and Thomas Young's (Young's modulus and the wave theory of light) birthday.? And my younger son's.
Thomas Young was an interesting guy; he was brilliant but such a poor writer that his ideas weren't appreciated until long after his death.? None of his contemporaries could figure out what he was trying to say!? I've seen a sample of his writing, and yes, it was completely impenetrable!
Jim Ford
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Here’s an excellent Google talk about Fred Terman
And an interesting letter from Bill Hewlett to Fred Terman
George?
On Oct 20, 2021, at 4:17 PM, Richard Knoppow <dickburk@...> wrote:
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?? There is a bio at:<>covering Bill Hewlett's education.?? Terman is an interesting character himself. His father was Lewis Terman, an early researcher into child psychology and studied child geniuses. I know just a little because I was tested and might have been included as a "Terman child" in grammar school before my family was uprooted to California. I was never a genius but I suspect Bill Hewlett was.On 10/20/2021 3:47 PM, Roy Thistle wrote:On Sun, Oct 17, 2021 at 11:27 AM, Stuart Landau wrote:
???This circuit was designed to fulfill his master's degree
???from Stanford University.
Okay... so a minor point... but I'm pretty sure Hewlett got his Masters of Science (an applied science degree) form MIT, and an Electrical Engineering degree after returning to Stanford. His supervisor at Stanford was Terman whose books are among the only books I've kept that are about the zinc plated vacuum tube era, of radio engineering.
-- Richard Knoppowdickburk@...WB6KBL
