Cliff Moulton
Clifford H. Moulton (b. April 4, 1927 – d. July 7, 2008) was a Tektronix engineer from April 2, 1951 to 1962 and 1981 to July 24, 1993.
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Since he left Tek between 1962 and 1981, his total length of service was about 23 years.
Cliff was a ham radio operator (call W7MFW) and was known, among other things, for riding his unicycle down the halls of Building 81.
Products
- designed Type 524 TV Waveform scope (1953-?)
- designed Type 130 LCR Meter (1954-1968)
- designed Type 519 Gigahertz scope (1961-1973)
Products by Cliff Moulton
Manufacturer | Model | Description | Designers | Introduced |
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Tektronix | 524 | TV waveform monitoring scope | Cliff Moulton | 1953 |
Tektronix | 525 | TV waveform monitor | Cliff Moulton | 1955 |
Tektronix | 130 | L/C Meter | Cliff Moulton | 1959 |
Tektronix | 519 | 1 GHz tube scope | Cliff Moulton | 1961 |
Tektronix | 3S76 | Dual Channel Sampling plug-in | Cliff Moulton • Ron Olson • Charlie Rhodes • Walt Lowy • Phil Crosby | 1962 |
Tektronix | 3T77 | Sampling sweep plug-in | Bob Webb • Jim Geddes • Cliff Moulton | 1962 |
Tektronix | 3T77A | Sampling sweep plug-in | Bob Webb • Jim Geddes • Cliff Moulton | 1966 |
Components by Cliff Moulton
Model | Class | Description | Designers | Used in |
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T5191 | CRT | 1 GHz CRT | Cliff Moulton | 519 |
Patents by Cliff Moulton
Page | Office | Number | Title | Inventors | Company | Filing date | Grant date |
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Patent US 2752527A | US | 2752527A | Method of magnifying waveforms on a cathode-ray tube and circuit therefor | Dick Ropiequet • Cliff Moulton | Tektronix Inc | 1953-08-18 | 1956-06-26 |
Patent US 2922074A | US | 2922074A | Electron beam deflection structure | Cliff Moulton | Tektronix Inc | 1956-09-17 | 1960-01-19 |
Patent US 3105945A | US | 3105945A | Signal energy take off device | Sam McCutcheon • Norm Winningstad • Cliff Moulton | Tektronix Inc | 1960-11-07 | 1963-10-01 |
Patent US 3174070A | US | 3174070A | Electron beam deflection structure with compensation for beam transit time | Cliff Moulton | Tektronix Inc | 1961-08-14 | 1965-03-16 |
Patent US 3248655A | US | 3248655A | Ratchet memory circuit and sampling system employing such circuit | John Kobbe • Cliff Moulton • John V Rogers • Norm Winningstad | Tektronix Inc | 1962-05-07 | 1966-04-26 |
Patent US 4916415A | US | 4916415A | Balanced, impedance matched, coupling device | Cliff Moulton • Val Garuts | Tektronix Inc | 1989-01-17 | 1990-04-10 |
Patent US 4980654A | US | 4980654A | Transmission line transformer | Cliff Moulton | Tektronix Inc | 1990-04-06 | 1990-12-25 |
Patent US 5121090A | US | 5121090A | Balun providing dual balanced outputs | Val Garuts • Cliff Moulton | Tektronix Inc | 1990-04-09 | 1992-06-09 |
Patent US 5212409A | US | 5212409A | Analog-to-digital converter latch circuit | Cliff Moulton • Phil Crosby | Tektronix Inc | 1992-03-16 | 1993-05-18 |
Publications
Links
- http://lists.contesting.com/_amps/2012-06/msg00432.html
- 1970s Moulton bio @ Audionics (page 4)
- http://tekretirees.org/Newsletter/feb2005_trn.pdf
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In 2002