Ralph C. Brown
ca. 1850 - 1950
Remarks: Dates approximate.
Ralph C. Brown was an electrical engineer and inventor from Salem, Mass. During World War I, he was the key inventor of the firing device that was used in the anti-submarine mines that were used for the North Sea mine barrage ("Northern Barrage"), between Scotland and Norway.
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For more information about his discovery, see for instance A.B. Feuer, The U.S. Navy in World War I: Combat at Sea and in the Air, Greenwood Publishing Group, 1999. p.13. Available online in Google Books http://books.google.com/books?id=7O1yeZxemlUC&pg=PA13 (accessed 08/28/2014)