Leonard Franklin Fuller

August 21, 1890 (age 96)

Portland, Oregon , United States

He then joined the National Electric Signaling Company, Brooklyn, New York, switching after a few months to the Federal Telegraph Company at San Francisco, becoming its chief engineer in 1913. From 1913 to 1919 he led development and manufacture of very large Poulsen arc transmitters (ranging in sizes from 200, 350, 500 and up to 1,000 kilowatts) for the Army and Navy, which were then installed in stations for transport-oceanic communications in the United States, France, Panama, Hawaii, and across the Pacific to the Philippines. From 1919 to 1923 Fuller manufactured radio receivers at the Colin B. Kennedy Company, San Francisco, which he founded, and performed private consulting in communications for electrical power companies. In 1921 and 1922, he designed and installed the world"s first carrier current telephone system on power lines above 50,000 volts. From 1923-1926 he worked for General Electric in Schenectady and New York City on power company communication and radio receiver work, then in 1926 returned to San Francisco for General Electric. There he led new high voltage developments and the application of vacuum tubes for the west coast"s electric power industry, including power-line communications between Hoover Dam and Los Los Angeles He then returned to Federal Telegraph Company as its Executive Vice President and Chief Engineer, managing its plant at Palo Alto. From 1930 to 1943 Fuller was professor of electrical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, also serving as department chairman From 1946-1954, he was coordinator of contract research and acting professor of electrical engineering at Stanford.

Leonard Franklin Fuller

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Background

Fuller was born in Portland, Oregon, graduated from Portland Academy in 1908, and in 1912 graduated from Cornell University with an Mechanical Engineering degree.

Education

Mechanical Engineering, Cornell Univercity, 1912. Doctor of Philosophy, Stanford, 1919.

Career

He then joined the National Electric Signaling Company, Brooklyn, New York, switching after a few months to the Federal Telegraph Company at San Francisco, becoming its chief engineer in 1913. From 1913 to 1919 he led development and manufacture of very large Poulsen arc transmitters (ranging in sizes from 200, 350, 500 and up to 1,000 kilowatts) for the Army and Navy, which were then installed in stations for transport-oceanic communications in the United States, France, Panama, Hawaii, and across the Pacific to the Philippines. From 1919 to 1923 Fuller manufactured radio receivers at the Colin B. Kennedy Company, San Francisco, which he founded, and performed private consulting in communications for electrical power companies.

In 1921 and 1922, he designed and installed the world"s first carrier current telephone system on power lines above 50,000 volts.

From 1923-1926 he worked for General Electric in Schenectady and New York City on power company communication and radio receiver work, then in 1926 returned to San Francisco for General Electric. There he led new high voltage developments and the application of vacuum tubes for the west coast"s electric power industry, including power-line communications between Hoover Dam and Los Los Angeles He then returned to Federal Telegraph Company as its Executive Vice President and Chief Engineer, managing its plant at Palo Alto.

From 1930 to 1943 Fuller was professor of electrical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, also serving as department chairman From 1946-1954, he was coordinator of contract research and acting professor of electrical engineering at Stanford.

Achievements

Leonard Franklin Fuller has been listed as a noteworthy electrical engineer by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member anti-submarine group of National. Fellow American Institute of Elctrical Engineering, Institute Radio Engineers, American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member Sigma Xi, Eta Kappa Nu, Tau Beta Pi.

Club: Sierra.

Patentee radio telegraph apparatus.

Connections

Married Lucretia Robinson Strong, June 22, 1912 (she died 1943). Married second, Eleanor Pearl Rideout, September 15, 1944. Children: Franklin Ide, Leonard Franklin, Mary Esther.

Father:: Franklin Ide Fuller
Mother:: Anna Jessie (Parrish) Fuller
Spouse:: Lucretia Robinson Strong
Spouse:: Eleanor Pearl Rideout
child:: Franklin Ide Fuller
child:: Mary Esther Fuller
child:: Leonard Franklin Fuller

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