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What's a Microcontroller? Parts Kit and Text -- Incorporates a variety of fun and engaging experiments using motion, light, and sound.
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TV, Electronics Pioneer Robert Page Burr, K1MI, SK
The July 1972 issue of QST featured Page Burr, W2KQP, who authored the article "The Flashlight Sidebander" in the same issue. Burr won a QST Cover Plaque Award for his contribution. |
MATINICUS ISLAND, ME--Feb 2, 1999--TV and electronics pioneer Robert Page Burr, K1MI (ex-W2KQP), died December 31, 1998, in Portland, Maine, of complications following heart surgery. He was 76.
Page Burr once wrote that getting his ticket in 1937 set him on the path of a lifelong interest in Amateur Radio and electronics. He attended Princeton University and was an engineering graduate of Cornell University.
After a stint in the Navy during World War II, Burr spent 10 years with Hazeltine Corp and was a key member of the team that developed the US color television standard. He chaired the National Television Standards Committee that eventually persuaded the FCC and the television industry to adopt the NTSC standard. Burr also is credited with developing the technique to apply electronic masking to the reproduction of color pictures.
Other contributions include a role in developing and marketing the printed motor used for precision control in magnetic tape drive systems, medical equipment, and elsewhere. He also developed the Multiwire computerized technology to simplify making multilayer circuit boards. During his career, Burr received more than 200 patents. He retired in 1987 as senior scientific officer of Kollmorgen Corp. He was a member of the Institute of Radio Engineers, the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, and the ARRL. He received the Charles J. Hirsch Memorial Award from the IEEE in 1977 for his contributions to engineering.
After moving to Matinicus from Long Island, New York, Burr was instrumental in creating a modern framework for the island's power company. He also helped Matinicus to computerize its town records.
Burr won the July 1972 QST Cover Plaque Award for his article, "The Flashlight Sidebander."
Survivors include his wife, Elizabeth, and six children. A memorial service was held January 11 aboard the M/V Sunbeam in Maine's Rockport Harbor. Contributions are welcome to the Maine Seacoast Mission, Rockport, Maine.
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