George Squier, Major General United States Army

"Major General George Owen Squier (March 21, 1865 - March 24, 1934) graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1887 and received a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1893. He and Dartmouth professor Albert Cushing Crehore developed an magneto-optical streak camera "The Polarizinq Photo-chronograph" in 1896 to measure the speed of projectiles both inside cannon and directly after they left the cannon barrel. This was one of the earliest photonic programs. They also worked to develop synchronous AC telegraphic systems. His biggest contribution was that of multiplexing in 1910 for which he was elected to the National Academy of Science in 1919. He helped establish the Aeronautical Division, US Signal Corps, ancestor of the US Air Force. He was the first military passenger in an airplane and was responsible for the purchase of the first airplanes by the US Army built by the Wright Brothers in 1909. In 1922 he created Wired Radio, a service that piped music to businesses and subscribers over wires. Liking how Kodak was a made up name, in 1934, he decided later to change the service's name to Muzak. He died in 1934 of pneumonia at the age of 69."

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