Background
BONCH-BRUYEVICH, Mikhail was born on February 21, 1888 in Oryol.
BONCH-BRUYEVICH, Mikhail was born on February 21, 1888 in Oryol.
1909 graduate Engineer College. Graduate Military Electr Engineer School, Saint St. Petersburg.
1919-1929 headed NizhnyNovgorod Radio Laboratory. From 1922 professor, Moscow Higher Technical College. From 1932 professor, Leningrad Institute of Communications Engineer.
1916-1919 studied electronic tubes and was first to organize Soviet production of such tubes. On orders of Lenin, planned and in 1922 built world’s first powerful (12-kilowalt) radio transmitter, the ’’Communist International” Station in Moscow. 1919-1925 designed powerful water-cooled generator tubes and circuits for radio-telephone stations.
1927 40-kilowalt transmitter with external-anode lubes designed by Bonch-Bruyevich was built in Moscow. 1924-1930 supervised research into short-wave propagation. Designet world's first short-wave directional antennas and built short-wave longdistance radio communication lines.
Studied physical properties of upper layers of atmosphere and conducted ionosphere research by means of radio echo techniques. Studied ultra short waves and their use, id est (that is), for radio location.
Correspondent member, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences from 1931.