Fritz Karl Preikschat, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Fritz Karl Preikschat

Date of Birth: 11-Sep-1910

Place of Birth: Chernyakhovsk, Russia

Date of Death: 02-Sep-1994

Profession: physicist, aerospace engineer

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Fritz Karl Preikschat (September 11, 1910 – September 2, 1994) was a German, later American, electrical and telecommunications engineer and inventor.
He had more than three German patents and more than 23 U.S.
patents, including a dot matrix teletypewriter (Germany, 1957), a blind-landing system for airports (1965), a phased array system for satellite communications (1971), a hybrid car system (1982), and a scanning laser diode microscope for particle analysis (1989).
He was the only engineer to work on both sides of the Space Race: a lab manager for NII-88 in Soviet Union (1946-1952) and a lead engineer for the Space division of Boeing (1960s).