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Tommy Dowd, who worked on the Manhattan project, just couldn’t get back into teaching physics at Columbia after the war. Most of his knowledge was still classified, and he felt stupid teaching “old” physics when he knew there was more!
he got involved in Radio, and help promote Jazz and blues artists who might not otherwise get a chance. He worked very closely with Ray Charles, and was mentioned very obliquely in the movie “Ray” (”Hey Tommy, what do you think of this?”)
Tommy invented the fader, which was a strip potentiometer instead of cumbersome knobs that had been in use up til his innovation.
He ended up being the engineer for LAYLA!
There is a wonderful movie about this unsung hero of modern music, called “Tommy Dowd, the man behind the music”. I highly recommend it
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