Eleventh Generation
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George Arthur PHILBRICK861 was born on 5 January 1913 in Belmont, Middlesex, Massachusetts.3357,3358
He appeared in the census on 14 January 1920 in Winchester, Middlesex, Massachusetts.493 Age 6, born Massachusetts, parents born Massachusetts, living with parents. Name on census: George A. Philbrick.
He appeared in the census on 9 April 1930 in Winchester, Middlesex, Massachusetts.493 Age 17, born Massachusetts, parents born Massachusetts, living with parents. Name on census: George A. Philbrick.
George grew up in Winchester, Massachusetts, attending public schools there.3358
He entered Harvard's engineering school in 1932, and received a bachelor of science degree in communications engineering in 1935, completing the program in record time, as a full-scholarship student. One of his influential teachers was George Washington Pierce and it is also interesting to point out that Jacob Den Hartog was then a young assistant whom he knew.
Shortly after receiving his degree, George went to work for the Foxboro Company, via one of its founding components, the Atlantic Precision Instrument Company.
In 1938, George built "Polyphemus", a one-eyed monster (whose eye was a CRT) which was the world's first high speed general purpose analog computer. This machine, now prominently displayed at the Smithsonian Museum of History and Technology in Washington, could represent both the process itself and a variety of conceivable controllers. Polyphemus used vacuum tubes in feedback amplifiers for activation of its circuitry.
He served in the government as a scientist with the National Defense Research Council during WWII from 1942 to 19453358
He died of a cardiac arrest on 1 December 1974 at the age of 61 at his home in Cotuit, Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts.3357,3358
George Arthur PHILBRICK and Laurette LOS were married in 1936.3357,3358
Laurette LOS, daughter of Alexander LOS and Leocadia GOLEMBIEWSKA, was born on 13 March 1906 in New Jersey.3357,3359 She died in 1973 at the age of 67.3357
George Arthur PHILBRICK-45915 and Laurette LOS-57605 had the following children:
+17150 | i. | Penelope PHILBRICK-57600. |