词条 | Charles Walton (inventor) |
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Charles Walton grew up in Maryland and New York State, and graduated from George School in 1939. He graduated from Cornell University in 1943 with a degree in Electrical engineering, and received a master's degree from Stevens Institute of Technology.[3] After service in the Army Signal Corps, Charles Walton worked at IBM's research and development laboratories until 1970. He founded the company Proximity Devices, Inc., in Sunnyvale, California in 1970, to manufacture devices based on his patents. Charles Walton was a major donor to the [https://web.archive.org/web/20120125063517/http://www.lighthousefriends.com/light.asp?ID=836 Walton lighthouse] at the Santa Cruz Yacht Harbor, named in honor of his brother Derek, who was in the Merchant Marine and died of polio in the early 1950s. DeathWalton died on November 6, 2011, at the age of 89.[1][2] Notes1. ^1 {{cite web| author=Dean Takahashi |url=https://venturebeat.com/2011/11/27/charlie-walton-inventor-of-rfid-passes-away-at-89/ |title=Charlie Walton, inventor of RFID, passes away at 89 |publisher=VentureBeat|date=November 27, 2011 |accessdate=2011-12-01}} {{authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Walton, Charles}}{{US-engineer-stub}}{{US-business-bio-1920s-stub}}2. ^1 {{cite web|url=https://www.engadget.com/2011/11/29/charles-walton-father-of-rfid-technology-dies-at-89/ |title=Charles Walton, father of RFID technology, dies at 89 |publisher=Engadget |date= |accessdate=2011-12-01}} 3. ^1 {{cite web | last = | first = | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = RFID Contributions | work = Inventor of the Week | publisher = Massachusetts Institute of Technology | year = 2005 | url = http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/waltonc.html | doi = | accessdate = 1 Nov 2011}} 4. ^Charles A. Walton "Portable radio frequency emitting identifier" {{US Patent|4,384,288}} issue date 17 May 1983. 8 : American inventors|2011 deaths|1921 births|Cornell University College of Engineering alumni|People from Sunnyvale, California|20th-century American businesspeople|Engineers from California|George School alumni |
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