Posted
3/22/2008 12:13:00 PM
by Douglas
Sir Arthur C. Clarke died last
week.In 1945, while a radar technician with the RAF, Clarke originated the notion of communications satellites, describing in most particulars the machines which control modern telecommunications; he was later to regret that he had not patented the idea (though, as a serving officer, he could not in any case have done so).
I'm disappointed that the Telegraph fails to point out that it's called a
geostationary, or "Clarke" orbit.
Labels: Telegraph Obits