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He was born in Leominster, Massachusetts in 1898 He died in December 1983 at age 85 He was an American electrical engineer

In the first part of the twentieth century, long-distance calls were noisy at best. The company's Systems Engineering Dept. (Bell Labs) put electrical engineer Harold S. Black on the problem in 1925.

"He immediately sketched a block diagram and equations for an amplifier with feedback on a blank page of his newspaper," an IEEE biography noted.

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