Comments on: High Voltage Engineering Corporation (Feb, 1953) http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/03/28/high-voltage-engineering-corporation/ Yesterday's tomorrow, today. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:07:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: behzad http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/03/28/high-voltage-engineering-corporation/comment-page-1/#comment-1099118 behzad Sat, 17 Dec 2011 10:15:28 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/03/28/high-voltage-engineering-corporation/#comment-1099118 hello I am student and Urgent need fo Manual of NMR Fluxmeter. can you help me? hello
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]]> By: Edward Fenner http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/03/28/high-voltage-engineering-corporation/comment-page-1/#comment-1080163 Edward Fenner Mon, 09 Aug 2010 19:50:55 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/03/28/high-voltage-engineering-corporation/#comment-1080163 I am doing research for my MA in Science and Technology Studies at York University. In August 2010, I visited with Robert's son John and gleaned a lot of excellent information and copies of some documents. I also visited the MIT Museum, MIT Archives, and the Museum of Science in Boston to see the generators in action and to chat with their staff. I would like to dialogue with anyone who or who had family members who worked with, worked for, studied with/under Robert J. Van de Graaff or who knew him in any social or professional capacity. Feel free to contact me at efenner@yorku.ca with comments, clips, clippings, photos, scans of documentation. It will all be helpful towards my major research paper and a possible biography I may do in the coming few years. Thank you, Edward Fenner Toronto, Canada I am doing research for my MA in Science and Technology Studies at York University. In August 2010, I visited with Robert’s son John and gleaned a lot of excellent information and copies of some documents. I also visited the MIT Museum, MIT Archives, and the Museum of Science in Boston to see the generators in action and to chat with their staff.

I would like to dialogue with anyone who or who had family members who worked with, worked for, studied with/under Robert J. Van de Graaff or who knew him in any social or professional capacity.

Feel free to contact me at efenner@yorku.ca with comments, clips, clippings, photos, scans of documentation. It will all be helpful towards my major research paper and a possible biography I may do in the coming few years.

Thank you,

Edward Fenner
Toronto, Canada

]]> By: Doug Denholm http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/03/28/high-voltage-engineering-corporation/comment-page-1/#comment-1079514 Doug Denholm Sun, 11 Jul 2010 22:10:48 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/03/28/high-voltage-engineering-corporation/#comment-1079514 My father, A. Stuart Denholm, was VP of Engineering of Ion Physics (one of High Voltage Engineering's subsidiaries) and worked there from the late 1950's until around 1967. My impression from half a lifetime of dinner conversations was that High Voltage had some very clever people working there but they were never able to transition from dependence on government contracts to providing HV technology industry. But High Voltage employees left to found quite a number of very successful Route 128 companies in the 70's and 80's. My father, A. Stuart Denholm, was VP of Engineering of Ion Physics (one of High Voltage Engineering’s subsidiaries) and worked there from the late 1950′s until around 1967.

My impression from half a lifetime of dinner conversations was that High Voltage had some very clever people working there but they were never able to transition from dependence on government contracts to providing HV technology industry.

But High Voltage employees left to found quite a number of very successful Route 128 companies in the 70′s and 80′s.

]]> By: Firebrand38 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/03/28/high-voltage-engineering-corporation/comment-page-1/#comment-1070258 Firebrand38 Wed, 05 Aug 2009 19:26:40 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/03/28/high-voltage-engineering-corporation/#comment-1070258 Wm Winder: Thanks. I flunked Mind Reading 101 in college. Wm Winder: Thanks. I flunked Mind Reading 101 in college.

]]> By: Wm Winder http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/03/28/high-voltage-engineering-corporation/comment-page-1/#comment-1070257 Wm Winder Wed, 05 Aug 2009 19:15:48 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/03/28/high-voltage-engineering-corporation/#comment-1070257 John Trump founded HVEC with Van de Graaff and was Technical Director. Denis M. Robinson was the president of the company. The following website has a pretty good bio: http://tvdg10.phy.bnl.gov/vandegraaff.html John Trump founded HVEC with Van de Graaff and was Technical Director. Denis M. Robinson was the president of the company. The following website has a pretty good bio: http://tvdg10.phy.bnl.gov/vandegraaff.html

]]> By: Firebrand38 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/03/28/high-voltage-engineering-corporation/comment-page-1/#comment-1070253 Firebrand38 Wed, 05 Aug 2009 14:19:32 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/03/28/high-voltage-engineering-corporation/#comment-1070253 Trump & Robinson? Trump & Robinson?

]]> By: Wm Winder http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/03/28/high-voltage-engineering-corporation/comment-page-1/#comment-1070233 Wm Winder Tue, 04 Aug 2009 21:22:12 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/03/28/high-voltage-engineering-corporation/#comment-1070233 My father, Ronald P.H. Winder, was an engineer in the company from its inception in 1946 to about 1951. He left because there were "too many chiefs and not enough Indians," which i believe is the reason for its ultimate demise. Van de Graff, Trump & Robinson were all great people. My father, Ronald P.H. Winder, was an engineer in the company from its inception in 1946 to about 1951. He left because there were “too many chiefs and not enough Indians,” which i believe is the reason for its ultimate demise. Van de Graff, Trump & Robinson were all great people.

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