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In message <[email protected]>, Tom Van Baak
writes:
>Besides being the man behind LORAN, and a hundred other clever ideas, he
>also pushed the state of the art in timekeeping, comparing the world's
>best pendulum clocks against the best quartz clocks:
While was instrumental in many ways for LORAN, calling him "the man
behind LORAN" is probably overselling it a bit, as most of the
actual work was done by J. A. Pierce.
As far as I know, it is not even clear if Loomis got the idea for
hyperbolic navigation himself or if he had heard rumours about
Dippy's work in the british 'Gee' system.
Some years back I saved a copy of JAP's unofficial biography, and
when it later disappeared from the web, I put it in a corner of
my own homepage:
http://phk.freebsd.dk/misc/jack_pierce.html
It's a good read.
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