Great find! What a waste of brilliance. I was reading more about him after reading your article; the reason he was denied a slot at university and never allowed to do formal research was that he was born into the wrong class, the wrong family: one connected to the royal family. So the communists wouldn’t let him rise above technician, for ideological reasons. Which is a wild waste of human potential.
Thank you, heartfelt, for sharing, and respecting the history and effort of people!
> Oscillating crystals are not new since they were investigated as far back as 1906 by well known engineers, but it was not until lately that a Russian engineer, Mr. O. V. Lossev, succeeded in finding some interesting uses for oscillating crystals. The construction of the apparatus by means of which oscillations may be produced with crystal as a generator...
> The diagrams, as well as a good deal of the information printed in this article, are published in conjunction with "Radio Revue" of Paris. Arrangements have also been made with the inventor, Mr. O. V. Lossev, to furnish additional information on the Crystodyne principle.
> The crystodyne effect is a negative differential resistance phenomenon observed in some types of crystal detectors, discovered by Oleg Losev. Using this effect, it was possible to build amplifiers and oscillators without vacuum tubes...
Thanks for sharing. Never heard of this tragic story before.
Great find! What a waste of brilliance. I was reading more about him after reading your article; the reason he was denied a slot at university and never allowed to do formal research was that he was born into the wrong class, the wrong family: one connected to the royal family. So the communists wouldn’t let him rise above technician, for ideological reasons. Which is a wild waste of human potential.
Thank you, heartfelt, for sharing, and respecting the history and effort of people!
> Oscillating crystals are not new since they were investigated as far back as 1906 by well known engineers, but it was not until lately that a Russian engineer, Mr. O. V. Lossev, succeeded in finding some interesting uses for oscillating crystals. The construction of the apparatus by means of which oscillations may be produced with crystal as a generator...
> The diagrams, as well as a good deal of the information printed in this article, are published in conjunction with "Radio Revue" of Paris. Arrangements have also been made with the inventor, Mr. O. V. Lossev, to furnish additional information on the Crystodyne principle.
> Source: http://earlyradiohistory.us/1924cry.htm
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> The crystodyne effect is a negative differential resistance phenomenon observed in some types of crystal detectors, discovered by Oleg Losev. Using this effect, it was possible to build amplifiers and oscillators without vacuum tubes...
> Source: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Кристадинный_эффект