Background
He was born in Brooklyn, New York, and graduated from Cooper Union with a Bachelor of Surgery in Electrical Engineering in 1936, then an Electrical Engineer degree in 1947.
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Edwin Stodola
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In 1936, he worked with Radio Engineering Laboratories, then he joined the United States. Signal Corps in 1939 as a civilian radio engineer In 1941, during World World War II, he was stationed at the Evans Signal Laboratory near Belmar, New Jersey. Led by John H. DeWitt, Junior., this group consisted of a five-man team with Stodola as the chief scientist
During a test on January 10, 1946, this team became the first to bounce a radio signal off the moon and detect the resulting echo (Earth-Moon-Earth or EME).
He left the Signal Corps in 1947 and became an engineer with Reeves Instrument Corporation. A licensed radio amateur (W2AXO) since childhood, he was inducted posthumously into the CQ Amateur Radio Hall of Fame in 2011.
In 1983 he moved to Central Florida.
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Following the war, Stodola was a member of Project Diana, a Signal Corps project to investigate long range radar.
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American