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Ralph Baer - is an electronic engineer and engineering consultant with nearly 60 years of hands-on engineering management and product licensing experience. In the sixties and seventies Ralph was the chief engineer for equipment design at Sanders Associates in Nashua, NH and later became Sanders/Lockheed first Engineering Fellow. Ralph has over 150 U.S. and foreign patents.
He is probably best known as the "Father of Video Games" and holds the pioneer patents covering both the method and apparatus of video games. His work in the sixties resulted in the Magnavox Odyssey game system, which was the first commercial home video game. His early video game hardware already resides in such places as the Smithsonian and the Japanese National Science Museum. Replicas are on display all over the map, including Germany and German museums. Ralph also spent the better part of a decade in support of patent attorneys in pursuit of infringers of his and his associates' patents and in the support and surveillance of licencees.
For over fifty years Ralph has been active in both the commercial and defense electronics development and production business; and in electronic toy and game invention, design and licensing. Many well-known handheld electronic toys such as Milton-Bradley's "Simon" came from his lab. His home has been Manchester, New Hampshire for the past 48 years. He moves around a lot.
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