• Alec Harley Reeves CBE (10 March 1902 – 13 October 1971) was an English scientist best known for his invention of pulse-code modulation (PCM). He was awarded...
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  • sample is quantized to the nearest value within a range of digital steps. Alec Reeves, Claude Shannon, Barney Oliver and John R. Pierce are credited with its...
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  • include: Alec Aalto (1942–2018), Finnish diplomat Alec Acton (1938–1994), English footballer Alec Albiston (1917–1998), Australian rules footballer Alec Alston...
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  • Geographer (1935). Reeves married Grace Eden Harley in 1888. He died in his Reigate home on 17 October 1945, leaving his widow, a son (Alec Reeves), and a daughter...
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    exceed 90%. The first class-D amplifier was invented by British scientist Alec Reeves in the 1950s and was first called by that name in 1955. The first commercial...
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  • (PCM) exchange named Empress (three decades after British scientist Alec Reeves had invented the PCM encoding system without the digital components to...
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  • English former football player Alec Reeves (1902–1971), English electronics engineer Amber Reeves, feminist writer Ana Reeves, Chilean television, film and...
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    Reeve, Christopher (1998). pp. 90–94 "Will Reeve". ABC News. Archived from the original on November 12, 2024. Retrieved November 10, 2024. "Reeves Remained...
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  • systems Richard H. Ranger Wireless fax, radar, magnetic tape recording Alec Reeves Inventor of pulse code modulation Johann Philipp Reis Inventor of the...
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    data. Pulse-code modulation (PCM) was invented by British scientist Alec Reeves in 1937. In 1950, C. Chapin Cutler of Bell Labs filed the patent on differential...
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    transmitter on the aircraft was obvious. It had first been suggested by Alec Reeves of Standard Telephones and Cables in 1940 and then formally presented...
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  • hydrochloric acid, soap kerosene, kerosene lamp, chemotherapy, sodium hydroxide Alec Reeves (1902–1971), UK – Pulse-code modulation Karl von Reichenbach (1788–1869)...
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    was designed and developed by Frank Jones at TRE in collaboration with Alec Reeves at the Royal Aircraft Establishment. Oboe transponders were fitted to...
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  • largest owner of the LM Ericsson company in Sweden, but sold out in 1960. Alec Reeves, an ITT employee in France in the 1930s, developed pulse-code modulation...
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  • Tomlinson Moseley files the first patent for an electric toothbrush. Alec Reeves invents pulse-code modulation. Nobel Prizes Physics – Clinton Joseph...
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    storage or interference. October 3, 1938: British telephone engineer Alec Harley Reeves files at the French Patent Office the first patent describing the...
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    Americans to form the ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet. Surrey's Alec Reeves invented pulse-code modulation (PCM) in 1937 (at ITT's research laboratories...
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  • Philip Arthur Reeves (29 May 1893 – 5 December 1971), known professionally as Kynaston Reeves, was an English character actor who appeared in numerous...
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    team of Antoni E. Karbowiak (Toni Karbowiak), who was working under Alec Reeves to study optical waveguides for communications. Kao's task was to investigate...
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  • chemical engineer, scientific director of the Special Operations Executive; Alec Reeves (engineer, invented pulse-code modulation) Peter Rice (civil engineer)...
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  • the project would not produce large-scale results, Rowe, assisted by Alec Reeves, also led in the development of the Oboe navigation system and the ground-scanning...
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    involving military aircraft (1940–1942) Francis Jones (physicist) and Alec Reeves, who developed OBOE National Archives Picture of remains of the aircraft...
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    modulate the output using a separate signal. In 1937, English engineer Alec Reeves was working at the Paris laboratories of IT&T when he came up with the...
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  • Hooker (ICL) Sir Alec Issigonis (ULIP) Walter Katte (KCL) Frederick William Lanchester (ICL) Sir William Henry Preece (KCL) Alec Reeves (ICL) Bill Strang...
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  • Scott Sanders and Arthur Krystal, with Sanders directing. The film stars Alec Baldwin, Andre Braugher, Michael Jai White, Bruce Greenwood and Rebecca De...
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  • post since Alec Douglas-Home in 1970−1974. Following the general election on 4 July, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer appointed Rachel Reeves as Chancellor...
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    of Bass Reeves, a former slave who was an early Black deputy U.S. marshal; Reeves life is the focus of the 2023 TV series Lawmen: Bass Reeves. Bass served...
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  • optical fibre communication. Another famous name associated with STL is Alec Reeves, previously famous for inventing pulse-code modulation while working...
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  • directed by John Harrison, and stars Alec Newman as Paul Atreides, William Hurt as Duke Leto Atreides, and Saskia Reeves as Lady Jessica, along with Ian McNeice...
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  • War for the Planet of the Apes (category Films directed by Matt Reeves)
    the Apes is a 2017 American science fiction action film directed by Matt Reeves, who co-wrote it with Mark Bomback. The sequel to Dawn of the Planet of...
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