Born in a log cabin in Yuba in Richland County, Wisconsin, Cyril M. Jansky died at the age of eighty-nine, December 10, in Madison, Wisconsin.
Jansky was recognized internationally as a teacher and as a writer in the field of electrical engineering. He produced one of the first works on radio telegraphy and one of the first books in English on electric meters. After a short period of employment as a government engineer, following graduation from Northern Indiana Normal School, Jansky turned to teaching. He taught in Minnesota, Iowa, Texas, Michigan, and Washington, D.C., and was head of the school of applied science at Oklahoma. He came to the University of Wisconsin in 1908, where he remained until his retirement thirty-two years later.
