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Joseph Frederick Engelberger (July 26, 1925 – December 1, 2015) was an American physicist, engineer and entrepreneur. Licensing the original patent awarded to inventor George Devol, Engelberger developed the first industrial robot in the United States, the Unimate, in the 1950s. Later, he worked as entrepreneur and vocal advocate of robotic ...
Devol collaborated with Engelberger, who served as president of the company, to engineer and produce an industrial robot under the brand name Unimate. They introduced their new robot in 1961 at a trade show in Chicago. [2] The first Unimate prototypes were controlled by vacuum tubes used as digital switches though later versions used transistors.
Devol, together with Joseph Engelberger, his business associate, started the world's first robot manufacturing company, Unimation. [7] Devol's background wasn't in academia, but in engineering and mechanics, and previously worked on optical sound recording for film and high-speed printing using magnetic sensing and recording.
Engelberger is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include: Notable people with the surname include: John Engelberger (born 1976), German-American footballer
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The phrase "I know it when I see it" is a colloquial expression by which a speaker attempts to categorize an observable fact or event, although the category is subjective or lacks clearly defined parameters.
Maiman and his father Abe. Maiman was born in Los Angeles to a Jewish family. Abraham "Abe" Maiman, an electrical engineer [10] and inventor, and Rose Abramson. At a young age his family moved to Denver, Colorado, where he helped his father with experimentation in a home electronics laboratory.
Joseph Goldberger (Slovak: Jozef Goldberger, Hungarian: Goldberger József) (July 16, 1874 – January 17, 1929) was an American physician and epidemiologist in the United States Public Health Service (PHS). As a public health official, he was an advocate for scientific and social recognition of the links between poverty and disease. [1]