Dick Ropiequet

Dick Ropiequet, 1959

Richard Lincoln Ropiequet (8 May 1920 - 25 April 2011) was a Tektronix engineer.

With a background as a Navy electronics technician and a BS in chemical engineering from University of Illinois (1946), “Rope” joined the company in 1949. He was a key figure in early Tek, eventually rising to the position of Executive Vice President of Engineering and CRT Research. He left Tektronix in 1963.

Tek Products

Ropiequet is credited with creating the precision sweep generator for models 315 and 310 that for the first time permitted time calibration and led to the term “Time-Base” being adopted.

Publications

• http://www.infiniteparticlephysics.com/

Patents

• US3355620: Pulse counter tube employing voltage feedback from target to beam deflection electrodes isolated from any d. c. reference voltage (Filed 2 Dec 1963, granted 28 Nov 1967)

Links

• http://www.vintagetek.org/2011/10/richard-lincoln-ropiequet/
• World Science database