Name Andrew Alford | Role Engineer | |
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Died January 25, 1992, Winchester, Massachusetts, United States Education University of California, Berkeley | ||
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Andrew Alford (5 August 1904 – 25 January 1992) was an American electrical engineer and inventor.
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Born in Samara, Russia, Alford invented and developed antennas for radio navigation systems, now used for VHF omnidirectional range and instrument landing systems.
Alford graduated from the University of California in 1924. He received an honorary doctorate from Ohio University in 1975.
He invented a balanced square antenna named the Alford Loop.
In 1965, the first Master FM Antenna system in the world designed to allow individual FM stations to broadcast simultaneously from one source was erected on the Empire State Building. The original system was co-invented by Alford and Frank Kear.
In 1983 Alford was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame for his invention of the Localizer Antenna System which guides aircraft during landings.