Peder Oluf Pedersen Danish Physicist And Engineer Born 1874 - August 30 in History | This Day Story

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Peder Oluf Pedersen, Danish physicist and engineer (born 1874)

Peder Oluf Pedersen

Peder Oluf Pedersen was a Danish engineer and physicist. He is notable for his work on electrotechnology, his cooperation with Valdemar Poulsen on the developmental work on Wire recorders, which he called a telegraphone, the arc converter known as the Poulsen Arc Transmitter, and his work on electrical currents in the ionosphere.

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