!!!Meissner, Alexander b. Vienna, Sept. 14, 1883, d. Berlin (Germany), Jan. 3, 1958, electrical engineer. In 1913 at Telefunken in Berlin and independently of O. Nussbaumer and S. Strauss invented a feedback amplifier valve for the generation of undamped oscillations, one of the basic elements of wireless communication engineering, and introduced heterodyne reception. !Literature NDB. %%language [Back to the Austrian Version|AEIOU/Meissner,_Alexander|class='wikipage austrian'] %% [{FreezeArticle author='AEIOU' template='Lexikon_1995_englisch'}] [{ALLOW view All}][{ALLOW comment All}][{ALLOW edit FreezeAdmin}]