Andrew Alford

Andrew Alford (August 5, 1904 – January 25, 1992), born Andrew Petrovitch Alexeievsky, was a Russian-born American electrical engineer and inventor. He held over 100 patents by the end of 1954, and over 180 by the time he died.

Early life and education Alford was born in Kuibshev, Samara, then part of the Russian Empire. During World War II, he worked on radar-jamming technologies for the military, at Harvard University's secret Radio Research Laboratory. He was founder of the Alford Manufacturing Company in 1948.

Personal life Alford married Helen Glaser in 1930, and became a naturalized United States citizen. He died in Winchester, Massachusetts, in 1992, at the age of 87.