Alexander M. Poniatoff, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetAlexander M. Poniatoff
American engineer
Date of Birth: 25-Mar-1892
Date of Death: 24-Oct-1980
Profession: engineer
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
About Alexander M. Poniatoff
- Alexander Matveevich Poniatoff (Russian: ????????? ????????? ???????, 25 March 1892 – 24 October 1980) was a Russian-American electrical engineer. Poniatoff was born in 1892 in Russkaya Aysha, Kazansky District, Kazan Governorate, Russian Empire.
- He emigrated from Russia to China, where he worked for the Shanghai Power Company, until he emigrated to the United States in 1927.
- In 1944 he founded Ampex, using his initials A.M.P.
- plus "ex" for "excellence" to create the name.
- The high-frequency bias technique, which made quality recording possible, was invented by Telefunken engineers and put into practical use by Poniatoff.
- Danish engineer Valdemar Poulsen's original magnetic recorder was previously only usable for telephony recording.
- In 1956, Ampex engineers created the world's first rotary head recorder, the VR-1000 videotape recorder.
- Poniatoff served as president of Ampex until 1955, when he was elected chairman of the board.
- He died in 1980.
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