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Ernst F.W. Alexanderson
(25 Jan 1878 - May 1975)
Swedish-American electronics engineer and inventor whose contributions were important to the first live radio broadcast. Later, he helped develop colour television. He spent 46 years associated with General Electric, and held 322 patents.
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Science Quotes by Ernst F.W. Alexanderson (1)
The patent system was established, I believe, to protect the lone inventor. In this it has not succeeded. … The patent system protects the institutions which favor invention
— Ernst F.W. Alexanderson
'Inventors I Have Known', in Philip Alger, The Human Side of Engineering (1972), 137). Cited in David F. Noble, America By Design (1979), 84.
