Ernst Julius Berg

Ernst Julius Berg in 1921

Ernst Julius Berg(9 Feb. 1871 - 1941) was a Swedish-born, Americanelectrical engineer.

Biography

Ernst Julius Berg was born inÖstersund,JämtlandCounty inSweden.After graduating from theRoyal Institute of TechnologyinStockholmin 1892, he immigrated to the United States. He began working as an assistant toCharles Proteus SteinmetzatGeneral Electric.He then joined the faculty of electrical engineering atUnion College.

In 1909, he became head of electrical engineering department at theUniversity of Illinois.Berg remained as department head until June 1913, when he resigned and returned to his former positions with General Electric Company and with Union College. He was associated with Union College until his death in 1941. A pioneer of radio, he produced the first two-way radio voice program in the United States. In the field of theoretical analysis of electrical circuits, he popularizedOliver Heaviside's technique ofoperational calculus.

In 1906 he married Gwendoline O'Brien. He is buried inVale CemeteryinSchenectady, New York.

Works

• 1900: (withCharles Proteus Steinmetz)Theory and calculations of Alternating Current Phenomena,Electrical World and Engineer
• 1908:Electrical energy, its generation, transmission, and utilization,McGraw Hill
• 1916:Electrical Engineering, first course,McGraw Hill
• 1916:Electrical Engineering, advanced course,McGraw Hill
• 1929:Heaviside's Operational Calculus as Applied to Engineering and Physics,McGraw Hill viaInternet Archive

Archive

• Special Collections, Schaffer Library, Union College,Schenectady, New York.
• University of IllinoisPicture of EJ BergArchived2007-05-12 at theWayback Machine

References

• S. Hensel (1994)Ernst Julius Berg Educator and Proselytizer of Heaviside's Calculus,IEEE Potentials,13,57.
• R.R. Kline (1988)The General Electric professorship at Union College, 1903-41,IEEE Transactions on Education31,141.
• Benson, Adolph B. & Naboth Hedin (1969)Swedes In America,New York: Haskel House Publishers

External links

• Works by or about Ernst Julius Bergat theInternet Archive