Edwin H. Colpitts
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Edwin H. Colpitts was Western Electric research branch chief in early 1900s. Involved in the development of oscillators and vacuum tube push-pull amplifiers. Well known for his work on the Colpitts oscillator.
Western Electric research laboratories became part of Bell Laboratories in 1925. Colpitts was to become vice-president of Bell Labs before retirement. He worked on US government committees working on sonar in the second world war.
Colpitts died in 1949.
[edit] Publications
- E. H. Colpitts and O.B.Blackwell, Carrier Current Telephony and Telegraphy, Journal AIEE , vol. 40, no. 4, April 1921, 301-315; no. 5, May 1921, 410-421; no. 6, June 1921, 519-526.
