John Austin Victoreen Explained

Birth Date:4 July 1902
Birth Place:Johnstown, Pennsylvania, US
Death Place:Maitland, Florida, US
Field:Physics
Radiometry
Otology
Other Names:Jack Victoreen
Footnotes:Member of American Acoustic Society

John Austin Victoreen (July 4, 1902 – May 5, 1986) was a self-taught physicist, engineer, inventor and otologist. He founded the Victoreen Instrument Company and was the author of two books, various technical papers on radiation and sound waves, and holder of over 30 patents.

Career

Amateur Radio

Victoreen began his career in Cleveland, Ohio as a radio and radio parts manufacturer in the early 1920s (QSL card 8ACH) . At age 23 he had already received the first of many patents, this one for a high frequency tuning device that could be used in systems with radio frequency amplifiers of constant frequency. He had started a radio parts business and became interested in designing and building high quality radio receivers, some of which still exist today.[1] His Heterodyne was considered by some to be the "Rolls-Royce" of radios.[2]

Radiation Measurement

His interest soon turned to radiation measurement. In 1928 he founded the Victoreen Instrument Company in Cleveland Heights, OH and began to manufacture an x-ray dosimeter invented by Hugo Fricke and Otto Glasser.[3] [4] The first commercial model was the Condenser-R meter, which accurately measured the intensity and total dosage of X-ray exposure, and he gained international fame for this. He also developed other radiation measurement devices and his company provided 95% of the instrumentation for the Bikini atomic tests after World War II. His company was considered to be the "first nuclear company".[5] During World War II, Victoreen was contracted by the Manhattan Project to develop portable radiation devices as part of the highly secret Operation Peppermint project leading up to D-Day.[6]

Otology

Victoreen moved to Colorado Springs in 1950 and was on the staff as a consulting physicist at the Medical Center there. His interest in audio power amplification and frequency response led him into the field of otology and otometry.[7] He moved from Colorado Springs to Maitland, FL in 1962 [8]

Personal life

Victoreen was born to Ernest and Anne (Austin) Victoreen in 1902. He married Francis S. Shima, and they had two children: Jacqueline Ann (later Weir) and Robert Roy. Francis died in 1968 and he was remarried to Lizzie Louise (Bush) Sturges Feb 11, 1970.[9] [10]

Publications

Books

White Papers and Journal Articles

Patents

Source- USPTO [23]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Antique Radio Classified, The Mighty Superhet. Jul 5, 2014.
  2. Web site: Old QSL Cards. Jun 21, 2014.
  3. Web site: Case Western Reserve University,Dittrick Medical History Center . Jun 21, 2014.
  4. Book: Meggitt, Geoff . Taming the Rays . 181 . lulu.com . May 24, 2010 . 978-1409246671.
  5. Web site: Cleveland History: Electrical and Electronics Industries. Jun 21, 2014.
  6. Web site: Oak Ridge Associated Universities. Oct 11, 2021.
  7. Patterson, Donald (April 1986). "Victoreen". Radio Age, Volume 12 No. 4, pp. 1-3.
  8. Web site: Orlando Sentinel Obituaries . May 5, 1986 . Jun 22, 2014.
  9. Web site: Marquis Who's Who . Feb 5, 2014.
  10. Web site: Marriage Records. Jun 22, 2014.
  11. Book: Victoreen, LL.D. , John A. . Hearing Enhancement . Charles C Thomas Bannerstone House . 1960 . Springfield, Illinois . 60-12678 . 1432622 .
  12. Book: Victoreen, LL.D. , John A. . Basic Principles of Otometry . Charles C Thomas Bannerstone House . 1973 . Springfield, Illinois . 72-84151 . 0398026165.
  13. Victoreen . John A. . Journal of Applied Physics . 14 . 2 . 95–102 . American Institute of Physics . USA . Feb 1943 . AIP Scitation . 10.1063/1.1714956.
  14. Victoreen . John A. . The Thimble Ionization Chamber . Radiology . 29 . 3 . 341–345 . Radiological Society of No. America . USA . 1937 . 10.1148/29.3.341 .
  15. Victoreen . John A. . Journal of Applied Physics . 19 . 9 . 855–860 . American Institute of Physics . USA . 1948 . AIP Scitation . 10.1063/1.1698220 .
  16. Ionization Chambers. Proceedings of the IRE. 37. 2. 189–199. 10.1109/JRPROC.1949.230945. February 1949. Victoreen. J. A..
  17. Victoreen . John A. . Journal of Applied Physics . 20 . 12 . 1141–1147 . American Institute of Physics . USA . Dec 1949 . AIP Scitation . 10.1063/1.1698286.
  18. Electrometer Tubes for the Measurement of Small Currents. Proceedings of the IRE. 37. 4. 432–441. 10.1109/JRPROC.1949.232315. April 1949. Victoreen. J. A.. 51634667.
  19. Book: Glasser . Otto . Medical Physics Vol II . Year Book Publishers . 1950 . Chicago .
  20. Victoreen . John A. . The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America . 55 . 2 . 309–312 . Feb 1974 . Equal loudness pressures determined with a decaying oscillatory waveform . 10.1121/1.1914503 . 4821834 . 1974ASAJ...55..309V .
  21. Victoreen . John A. . Laryngoscope . 65 . 11 . 1032–42 . USA . Nov 1955 . The Role of Transient-Induced Reverberations in Electro-Acoustical Speech Amplifier Systems . 10.1288/00005537-195511000-00002 . 13272395 . 42588005 .
  22. Victoreen . John A. . Radiology . 17 . 5 . 1014–1017 . USA . Nov 1931 . Correction Factors for Barometric Pressure and Temperature as Applied to X-Ray Measuring Devices Calibrated in International Roentgens . 10.1148/17.5.1014.
  23. Web site: The United States Patent and Trademark Office Patent Full-Text Databases. Jun 19, 2014.

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