2026-10-04 Prabook (World Biographical Encyclopedia) - Gervais William Trichel

URL [web]: https://prabook.com/web/gervais_william.trichel/90642 (the URL without the id is a dead link) Career entry (born 10 Sep 1898). The education section did not render in the extracted text. - 1918: commissioned 2nd lieutenant, Coast Artillery Corps; colonel 1942. - Duty with Sperry Gyroscope Company, 1929-30. - Instructor in electrical engineering, Coast Artillery School, Fort Monroe, 1930-34. - Transferred to the Ordnance Department, 1934. The gap 1934-1938 matches the Berkeley Ph.D. of 1938 (Redmond), an inference. - Assistant to the chief, fire-control design division, Frankford Arsenal ("Frankfort" in source), 1938-40. - Assistant military attache, Paris, 1940. - Fire-control instrument design, Frankford Arsenal, 1941-43. - Chief, rocket development division, Office Chief of Ordnance, 1943-45. - Member, advisory board to the director of the atomic bomb project, 1946. - National Inventors Council, 1946. - Deputy director of R&D, War Department General Staff, 1946-47. - Chrysler Corporation, 1947-63 (president of the Amplex division 1956-59; Chrysler Defense Group European office 1960-63). - U.S. International Palma Rifle Team, 1923-24. Prabook is a compiled biographical database (from Who's Who-type sources). This is one source; the Find a Grave memorial (1898-1990) was seen only as a search snippet. Bearing: historical record (priority 4). It explains why Trichel's corona research stopped after 1939: he returned to Army ordnance duty, not because the work was dropped or disputed. It also answers the "absence of evidence" question for this inventor: the record continues, in a different field.