Fascinating facts about Michael Idvorsky Pupin
inventor of the Pupin Inductance Coil in 1894.

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RELATED INFORMATION:
Invention of the Telephone   from The Great Idea Finder
Communication History   from The Great Idea Finder

ON THE BOOKSHELF:
From Immigrant to Inventor
by Michael Pupin / Paperback: 436 pages / Kessinger Publishing (March 1, 2003)
A Pulitzer Prize winning book, Pupin's main objective in this narrative was to describe the rise of idealism in American science and particularly in physical sciences and the related industries. He was a witness to this gradual development and everything he describes was an attempt to qualify as a witness whose testimony has competence and weight.

ON THE WEB:
Columbins Ahead of Their Time
He left a significant portion of his estate to the University, and Columbia honored Pupin posthumously in 1935 by naming its 1927 physics building Pupin Hall. Today, the most prestigious prize of the Engineering School is the Pupin Medal for Service to the Nation, established in 1958.
(URL: c250.columbia.edu/c250_celebrates/remarkable_columbians/michael_pupin.html)
Columbia Encyclopedia
He is known for his researches in X rays and for his invention of numerous electrical devices used in telegraphy and telephony. POP-UP ADS..
(URL: www.bartleby.com/65/pu/Pupin-Mi.html)
Institute "Mihajlo Pupin" Belgrade, Yugoslavia
He then devoted himself to the theory of telegraphic and telephonic transmission over conducting wires, and particularly over telephone cables.
(URL: www.imp.bg.ac.yu/en/)
IEEE History
Pupin was president of the Institute of Radio Engineers in 1917 and the American Institute of Electrical Engineers in 1925-1926.
(URL: www.ieee.org/web/aboutus/history_center/biography/pupin.html)
Michael Idvorsky Pupin
The American physicist and inventor Michael Idvorsky Pupin, is recognized for his contributions to telephony and telegraphy, his invention of electrical tuning, and his discovery of secondary x-ray radiation.
(URL: www.bookrags.com/biography-michael-idvorsky-pupin/)
Brief Biography
U.S. physicist, born in Idvor, Hungary; invented the devices basic to long-distance telephone communication; graduated from Columbia University 1883
(URL: www.britannica.com/ebi/article?tocId=9333921)
Inventions and Patents
Michael Pupin has, U.S..  patented 24 inventions. The first one in 1894. and the last in 1923. Inventions are in the fields of telephony, telegraphy and radio. He became world famous inventing the process of pupinisation, which made very long distance transmission of text and speech possible. So, this process was given his name.
(URL: labtel.imp.bg.ac.yu/mpupin/e-patent.htm)
Pupin the Scientist
Michael Idvorsky Pupin was American physicist who devised a means of greatly extending the range of long-distance telephone communication by placing loading coils of wire at predetermined intervals along the transmitting wire. He invented the tuned oscillating circuit, which made possible the simultaneous transmission of several messages. POP-UP ADS.
(URL: www.geocities.com/neveyaakov/electro_science/pupin.html).

DID YOU KNOW:

• The American rights to the patent were acquired by American Telephone and Telegraph, this made Pupin a very wealth man.