The creator if the first MEMS device, Harvey Nathanson, has died. He built a resonant horizontal wand-like structure while working for Westinghouse in the 1960s. “Working out of the Westinghouse Research Labs in 1965 he conceived of a microscopic device used as a tuner for microelectronic radios,” according to this obituary by Ralph Schugar Chapel in ...

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