George Conrad Westervelt was an U.S. Navy

United States Navy

The United States Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States. The U.S. Navy is the largest in the world; its battle fleet tonnage is greater than that of the next 13 largest navies combined. The U.S...

 engineer who created the company "Pacific Aero Products Co." together with William Boeing

William Boeing

William Edward Boeing was an American aviation pioneer who founded The Boeing Company.-Biography:Boeing was born to a wealthy German mining engineer named Wilhelm Böing who had made a fortune and who had a sideline as a timber merchant...

. Westervelt later left the company and Boeing changed the name of the company to the Boeing Airplane Company

Boeing

The Boeing Company is an American multinational aerospace and defense corporation, founded in 1916 by William E. Boeing in Seattle, Washington. Boeing has expanded over the years, merging with McDonnell Douglas in 1997. Boeing Corporate headquarters has been in Chicago, Illinois since 2001...

. George Conrad Westervelt is also the uncle of the famous scientist, Peter Westervelt

Peter Westervelt

Peter Westervelt is an American physicist and Professor Emeritus of Physics at Brown University. Westervelt is known for his work in nonlinear acoustics...

, Emeritus Professor of Physics at Brown University, who discovered the parametric array

Parametric array

The parametric array is a nonlinear transduction mechanism that generates narrow, nearly sidelobe free beams of low frequency sound, through the mixing and interaction of high frequency sound waves, effectively overcoming the diffraction limit associated with linear acoustics...

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George Conrad Westervelt, was an American with Dutch roots.