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Ralph C. Brown

Ralph C. Brown was an electrical engineer and inventor from Salem, Mass. During World War I, he was the key inventor of the firing device that was used in the anti-submarine mines that were used for the North Sea mine barrage ("Northern Barrage"), between Scotland and Norway.

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Ralph C. Brown
1890-1930
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