The Life and Times of A. D. Blumlein
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Author(s): R. Burns
Publisher: IEE
ISBN: 0 8529 6773 X
Format: hardback
534pp
Price: £60.00, $95.00
Review Date: 23 May 2000
Review: A. D. Blumlein (1903-1942) was a brilliant scientist whose work ranged over the fields of telephony, electrical measurements, monophonic sound recording and reproduction, stereophonic sound recording and reproduction, high-definition television, electronics generally, antennas, cables and radar. He died at the age of 38, in an air accident. Between 1927 and 1942 he had applied for, and was granted 128 patents. His contributions to radar were of critical importance to the war effort and undoubtedly saved thousands of lives. the abandonment, in the spring of 1941, of the German 'Blitz' attacks on British towns and cities; the AA gunnery defence of the UK,; the achievement of the victory in the Battle of the Atlantic; the transformation of the bombing offensive over Germany; and the air offence against Axis shipping in the Mediterranean Sea in the autumn of 1942, all owed much to the endeavours of Blumlein. This book recounts his life and times.