20 Facts About Geoffrey Dummer

Geoffrey Dummer studied electrical engineering at Manchester College of Technology starting in the early 1930s.

Geoffrey Dummer was admitted to a nursing home in Malvern in 2000 due to a stroke and died in September 2002, aged 93.

In 1942 Geoffrey Dummer started a Synthetic Trainer Design Group and was responsible for the design, manufacture, installation and servicing of over 70 types of radar training equipment for service use during the war.

On May 7,1952 Geoffrey Dummer read a paper at the US Electronic Components Symposium.

Geoffrey Dummer got over his lack of suitable authority to commission development work by placing a small contract with Plessey under the auspices of his Constructional Techniques Group.

Geoffrey Dummer made no claim to be the inventor of microelectronics, a role he assigned to Robert Noyce and Jean Hoerni, whose planar process turned Kilby's initial prototype into a reliable manufacturable product, which is what Geoffrey Dummer had been waiting for.

Geoffrey Dummer began a campaign to encourage substantial UK investment in IC development, but was met largely with apathy.

Geoffrey Dummer served on many committees worldwide, both as member and chairman.

Geoffrey Dummer appeared on the popular BBC Television programme Tomorrow's World, extolling the virtues of integrated circuits.

Geoffrey Dummer produced numerous books on electronic equipment, inventions and discoveries, components and reliability, for several publishing houses, including McGraw-Hill, Pitman and notably, Pergamon Press, whose Electronic Data Series ran to 39 volumes.

Geoffrey Dummer was Editor-in-Chief of Pergamon's International Journal Microelectronics and Reliability, which he had founded, and Editorial Adviser to Electronic Components.

Geoffrey Dummer died in September 2002 and was interred in Malvern Cemetery.

Geoffrey William Arnold Dummer was born 25 February 1909 at Kingston upon Hull, England, the son of Arthur Robert William Dummer, a caretaker, and Daisy Maria King.

Geoffrey Dummer married Dorothy Whitelegg in 1934, the marriage being registered at Bucklow.

In May 1966 Geoffrey was contacted by Michael Dummer, who had started a study of all Dummers, concerning Geoffrey's family history.

At that time Geoffrey Dummer knew almost nothing of his ancestors before his grandparents, but was stimulated to start researching them.

Geoffrey Dummer was particularly hopeful of establishing a link with the notable Dummer family who had held estates in Hampshire in the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries, and who included in their number Edmund Dummer, Surveyor of The Navy, and Richard Dummer, one of the founding fathers of Massachusetts.

Geoffrey Dummer's researches were to lead him in a different direction, however.

Geoffrey Dummer's father had been born at the City Gaol, Gorton, where his grandfather, Moses Dummer, was gaoler.

Geoffrey Dummer found out that Moses was born in the village of Lacock, Wiltshire.