• DocumentCode
    1548123
  • Title

    Inventing the negative feedback amplifier: Six years of persistent search helped the author conceive the idea “in a flash” aboard the old Lackawanna Ferry

  • Author

    Black, H.S.

  • Volume
    14
  • Issue
    12
  • fYear
    1977
  • Firstpage
    55
  • Lastpage
    60
  • Abstract
    The author describes how he came to invent the negative feedback amplifier in 1927.
  • Keywords
    amplifiers; feedback; history; negative feedback amplifier;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Spectrum, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9235
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MSPEC.1977.6501721
  • Filename
    6501721