Charles Concordia (1908-06-20 - 2003-12-25) was a noted American electrical engineer specializing in electrical power engineering and the early history of computer hardware.
Concordia was born in Schenectady, New York, in 1926 went directly from high school to General Electric as a test engineer, in 1934 graduated from its Advanced Engineering Program, and worked at General Electric until 1973. His early engineering work concerned television and ...
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Charles Concordia (1908-06-20 - 2003-12-25) was a noted American electrical engineer specializing in electrical power engineering and the early history of computer hardware.
Concordia was born in Schenectady, New York, in 1926 went directly from high school to General Electric as a test engineer, in 1934 graduated from its Advanced Engineering Program, and worked at General Electric until 1973. His early engineering work concerned television and detecting cracks in railway rails by magnetic field measurements.
During World War II he worked on generators and turbines for naval destroyer propulsion, researched aircraft superchargers, and helped develop ships' electrical drives. In the 1940s he chaired the American Institute of Electrical Engineers (AIEE) subcommittee on large-scale computing devices and continued consulting after the war. He married Frances Butler in 1948. In 1971 he earned a D.Sc. from Union College and later received an honorary D.Sc. from Iowa State University....
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