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ANTHONY D. KURTZ
ANTHONY D. KURTZ
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He was 80 years old. Kurtz started Kulite Semiconductor Products, Inc., in 1959 to manufacture silicon strain gauges.
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Semiconductor strain gauges offered 100 times the sensitivity of conventional metal foil and wire gauges. Their initial customers were established pressure transducer manufacturers.
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As is often the case with pioneers, Kulite spawned several spinoffs and competitors. Learning from his father's tungsten business in which the profit was in collecting the dust from the saw kerfs when cutting vacuum tube filaments, Tony Kurtz eschewed commodity businesses with low margins -- such as those that developed for disposable medical transducers and production automobiles.
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As an undergraduate at MIT, he was a founding member of the Rugby Club. This club team included an amazing assortment of young men who went on to become leading engineers, architects, executives, generals, professors, Central Intelligence Agency leaders -- and two national Academy of Engineering members.
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