Earle Melvin Terry was an American physicist, known for contributions to wireless transmission systems.
He was born in Battle Creek, Michigan

Battle Creek, Michigan

Battle Creek is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan, in northwest Calhoun County, at the confluence of the Kalamazoo and Battle Creek Rivers. It is the principal city of the Battle Creek, Michigan Metropolitan Statistical Area , which encompasses all of Calhoun county...

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obtained a B.A.

Bachelor of Arts

A Bachelor of Arts , from the Latin artium baccalaureus, is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, the sciences, or both...

 (1902) from the University of Michigan

University of Michigan

The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...

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as well as a Ph.D.

Ph.D.

A Ph.D. is a Doctor of Philosophy, an academic degree.Ph.D. may also refer to:* Ph.D. , a 1980s British group*Piled Higher and Deeper, a web comic strip*PhD: Phantasy Degree, a Korean comic series* PhD Docbook renderer, an XML renderer...

 from the University of Wisconsin–Madison

University of Wisconsin–Madison

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 (1910).
He joined the faculty at the same place, where he stayed since.
His fame comes from developing the WHA (AM)

WHA (AM)

-External links:*Jeff Miller . *Randall Davidson. PortalWisconsin.org...

 radio transmissions (1914),
work jointly with Edward Bennett (physicist)

Edward Bennett (physicist)

Edward Bennett was an American physicist, known from his early involvements in wireless transmission.He obtained a Ph.D. in electrical engineering at the Western University of Pennsylvania . The work was on spark-gap transmitters, jointly with William Bradshaw andsupervised by Reginald Fessenden...

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Books

• Advanced laboratory practices in electricity and magnetism (1922)