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Thomas Reeve Rosebrugh

1866 – 1943

Canadian electrical engineer, inventor, and professor

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Lived 1866 – 1943 (aged 76–77). Thomas Reeve Rosebrugh was an electrical engineer and university teacher.

Thomas Reeve Rosebrugh MA FRSC (1866–1943) was a Canadian electrical engineer, inventor, and professor of electrical engineering.

T. R. Rosebrugh's father was the surgeon and inventor Abner M. Rosebrugh. Together they patented two inventions related to the transmission of telephonic and telegraphic messages.

T. S. Rosebrugh was a student enrolled in the program of physics and mathematics at the University of Toronto, where he assisted James Loudon.

T. R. Rosebrugh was an Invited Speaker of the ICM in 1924 in Toronto. The Rosebrugh Building on the University of Toronto's St. George campus is named in honor of both Thomas R. Rosebrugh and Abner M. Rosebrugh.

Selected publications "Discussion on "Output and Regulation in Long-Distance Lines," and "Calculation of the High-Tension Line." Frontenac, NY, June 29, 1909." Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers 28, no. 1 (1909): 687–723. with W. Lash Miller: "Mathematical theory of the changes of concentration at the electrode brought about by diffusion and by chemical reaction." The Journal of Physical Chemistry 14, no. 9 (1910): 816–884. "Focus of Auroral Streamers, September 23, 1924." Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada 18 (1924): 427. "A general theorem on quantic determinants." Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 33 (1927): 583–590. "Abstract of the analytics of transmission calculations." Journal of the AIEE 49, no. 11 (1930): 917–917.

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Born
1866
Birth century
Died
1943
Education
University of Toronto
Employers
University of Toronto
Awards
Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada

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Who was Thomas Reeve Rosebrugh?

Canadian electrical engineer, inventor, and professor (1866-1943)

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Thomas Reeve Rosebrugh was born in 1866.

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Thomas Reeve Rosebrugh died in 1943.

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Thomas Reeve Rosebrugh was an electrical engineer and university teacher.

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