electrical engineer
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1. a person trained in practical applications of the theory of electricity (noun.person)
| instance hyponym | : | bush, vannevar bush, |
| definition | : | United States electrical engineer who designed an early analogue computer and who led the scientific program of the United States during World War II (1890-1974) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | de forest, father of radio, lee de forest, |
| definition | : | United States electrical engineer who in 1907 patented the first triode vacuum tube, which made it possible to detect and amplify radio waves (1873-1961) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | dolby, ray m. dolby, |
| definition | : | United States electrical engineer who devised the Dolby system used to reduce background noise in tape recording (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | heaviside, oliver heaviside, |
| definition | : | English physicist and electrical engineer who helped develop telegraphic and telephonic communications; in 1902 (independent of A. E. Kennelly) he suggested the existence of an atmospheric layer that reflects radio waves back to earth (1850-1925) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | a. e. kennelly, arthur edwin kennelly, kennelly, |
| definition | : | United States electrical engineer noted for his work on the theory of alternating currents; independently of Oliver Heaviside he discovered the existence of an atmospheric layer that reflects radio waves back to earth (1861-1939) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | guglielmo marconi, marconi, |
| definition | : | Italian electrical engineer who invented wireless telegraphy and in 1901 transmitted radio signals across the Atlantic Ocean (1874-1937) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | nikola tesla, tesla, |
| definition | : | United States electrical engineer and inventor (born in Croatia but of Serbian descent) who discovered the principles of alternating currents and developed the first alternating-current induction motor and the Tesla coil and several forms of oscillators (1856-1943) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | elihu thomson, thomson, |
| definition | : | United States electrical engineer (born in England) who in 1892 formed a company with Thomas Edison (1853-1937) (noun.person) |
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