Experience

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  PCB Electronics Company

  • Buffalo, NY

  • Owner

    • 1966 - Sep 2016
    • Buffalo, NY

    Left Kistler Instruments in mid 1966 with brother Jim to start, a new high-tech, sensor company. It exploited the growing interest in a revolutionary new idea leading to advanced products now being used worldwide. The new company took the form of a proprietorship. After a year, it was incorporate...

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  Kistler Instrument Corporation

  • Niagara Falls, NY

  • Co-Founder and Vice President Marketing

    • 1955 - 1966
    • Niagara Falls, NY

    In 1955, I left Bell Aircraft to help start a new company to import and sell the revolutionary SLM PZ14 Quartz Engine Cylinder Pressure Sensor developed by Walter Kistler, a gifted Swiss physicist and Bell Aircraft associate. With adapters, it also sensed force, acceleration, vibration, and balli...

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  Bell Aircraft Corporation

  • Niagara Falls, NY

  • Guidance and Control Engineer

    • 1950 - 1954
    • Niagara Falls, NY

    Helped develop Guidance Systems involving gyros and accelerometers for the Rascal and Shrike air-launched guided missiles. As stated elsewhere, the objective then was to make the target more dangerous than the launch point. Connected and operated a captured, German, experimental inertial guidance...