Reply #2: Reinhold Rudenberg accomplished quite a bit. [View All]

He had a keen and agile mind, published much and became a prolific inventor. His books, especially on electrical transients, were widely read and used as college texts. Among his contributions were:

* Carrier current communications (patent)
* Hollow conductors for overhead high voltage power transmission
* Electron microscope with electrostatic lenses (patent)
* Reversing or Backing of Ships and Propellers
* Phased array radar “geoscope” (patent)
* First analysis of explosives blast overpressure versus energy of charge
* Hyperbolic field lenses for focusing electron beams
* Electric power directly from atomic radiation (patent)
* Explaining the contributing cause of electric power systems blackout

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinhold_Rudenberg