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John Dodds (engineer)

John Dodds (engineer)

Scottish electrical engineer

John Mathieson Dodds OBE (13 September 1905[1] – 15 October 1983) was a Scottish electrical engineer. He was educated at the University of Aberdeen and at the Technische Hochschule, Aachen, where he won a Dr Ing. in 1933.[2]

Dodds worked in the Research Department of Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co. in Trafford Park, Manchester. While at Metropolitan-Vickers, Dodds developed high-power thermionic valves. These valves were used in the transmitter part of equipment for radar stations for defence (Chain Home system), thereby making a significant contribution to Britain's survival in World War II.[2] He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 1944 Birthday Honours.[3]

References

  1. [1]
    1939 England and Wales Register
  2. [2]
    "John Mathieson Dodds". The Newcomen Bulletin (128–142). London: Newcomen Society: 22. 1984.
  3. [3]
    "No. 36547". The London Gazette (Supplement). 2 June 1944. p. 2668.

Further reading

  • Brown, Jim, Radar - how it all began, ISBN 1-85756-212-7.
  • Dodds, JM and Ludlow, JH (1946), Journal of the IEE, 93, Part IIIA, pp 1123–1129.
  • Swords, Sean S (1986), Technical History of the Beginnings of Radar, pp 209, 270.
  • Watson-Watt, Robert (1957), Three Steps to Victory. Photograph of JMD.


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