[NJARC] Offering Dr. Richard Dehmel Collection for Next Meeting's Auction

[ScottMarshall at aol.com]

I've obtained a large part of the electronics basement workshop of a master  
electrical engineer, Dr. Richard C. Dehmel (bio below), and I'm offering to  
auction the pieces at the next NJARC meeting, all proceeds to go to the  club.
 
I've only cherry-picked a couple of pieces -- components and test equipment  
I need. The rest is the clubs. It took two packed to the ceiling car loads 
from  North Jersey to bring it into my kitchen -- the only space I have for such 
a  collection. I plan to give the resistors to Walt but here's a list of other 
 stuff. Lots of NOS components.
 
Some of what I can list right now:
 
Test equipment in great condition: Scope, VTVM's, Grid dip meter, Crystal  
Calibrator, Capacitor Checker, FET tester.
 
Box of 100 or more NOS potentiometers.
Attenuators (large, multi-turn).
Spools of nichrome wire.
Three component drawer cabinets (48 drawers) with knobs, sockets, mil spec  
parts, fuses, much more -- about half full.
Very old NOS transformers (some huge).
Very early IBM PC and Compac laptop (both apparently complete)
Large circuit breaker (apparently late 1800s or early 1900s)
Box of 100 or more misc NOS sockets and plugs.
 
Vintage documentation, 1922 Electrical Engineer's Encyclopedia, engineer's  
tube selector dial, much more I haven't time to list.
 
Do we have a deal?
 
Scott
 
Bio of Richard C. Dehmel:
 
 
The  Dr. Richard Carl Dehmel Distinguished Professorship in the College of  
Engineering 
1999 
The  Dr. Richard Carl Dehmel Distinguished Professorship promotes 
computational  innovation and simulation technology in electrical engineering, computer  
sciences and bioengineering, or their successor fields. It honors a  
distinguished Berkeley alumnus and engineer whose invention of the electronic  flight 
simulator seven decades ago broke new ground in a field that was itself  in its 
adolescence.  
Richard “Doc” Dehmel received his bachelor of science in  mechanical 
engineering from Berkeley in 1927. He then earned a master’s degree  in metallurgical 
engineering in 1930 and a PhD in chemistry in 1936 from  Columbia University. 
While on field assignment in Los Angeles for Bell Telephone  Laboratories, 
Dr. Dehmel learned to fly. Stuck on the airstrip one foggy  morning, he decided 
to invent something that would allow pilots to train while  on the ground.  
A  few weeks later, Dr. Dehmel unveiled a prototype of a flight trainer — 
looking for all the  world like a metal bed-frame with a seat, pedals, joystick, 
and some  instrumentation. Upon Dr. Dehmel’s return to New York, Bell Labs 
assigned all  patents to him and he perfected his prototype on his own  time.  
When World War II broke out, he offered his trainer for  the national war 
effort and worked with the Curtiss-Wright Corporation in  Caldwell, New Jersey to 
bring the flight simulator to full commercial  production. As chief engineer 
and later vice president of engineering and  development, Dr. Dehmel oversaw 
the development of simulators for many types of  large commercial and military 
aircraft. The first machine to solve the equations  of flight and one of the 
most complex electro-mechanical devices of its day, the  flight simulator has 
made air travel safer and reduced the cost of training  pilots. 
For  these accomplishments, he was inducted into both the Inventors Hall of 
Fame at  the New Jersey Institute of Technology and the  Aviation Hall of Fame 
of New Jersey. Dr. Dehmel died in 1992.