Hugh Houtman

About

http://saferself.ca http://StandUp4Kids.com http://StandUp4Youth.com http://www.becauseiamagirl.ca Education for all girls http://www.copticorphans.org Education for all girls (Egypt) http://sheissafe.org/ Safety for Single Women http://www.safeharbour.ca http://www.endingviolence.org http://www.canadianwomen.org/ http://www.abbotsfordcommunityservices.com/ Martina McBride: This One's For The Girls Teenage Daughters ~Women who seek to be equal to men lack ambition~ This young lady has plenty of ambition; neither Robin Hood, nor Cupid ever did this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUOCVhCmDNY&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=re4Mff7FhNc Simon rescues a young girl in tears: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntTv5dvU5gY Favorate Computer Scientist: Archimedes of Syracuse ~287 BC-212 BC For who else could design the following Bar-Linkage Computers: 1 A 2-bar linkage which can draw perfect, arbitrary ellipses 2 Once the angle tri-section problem was deemed impossible,he made a 3-bar linkage that could trisect an arbitrary angle Birth certificate: "Hubertus Houtman," named after: Saint Hubertus or Hubert, called the "Apostle of the Ardennes" was the first Bishop of Liège. Hubertus is a Christian saint, Belgium (656 - 727), the patron saint of hunters, mathematicians, opticians and metalworkers. Hugh in a nut-shell : Analog Computer Scientist, born in Gouda, the Netherlands ______ Young lady, in love, travelled alone by freighter, for 12,000 nautical miles, to marry her fiance (later to be, my own, dear mother and dear father) here ( ~1938 ): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ya4Ix8KPgps&NR=1&feature=endscreen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yK0AcVgl44&feature=relmfu Favourites: 1 Isaac Newton, "Principia" 2 L. Ron Hubbard, "Dianetics" 3 L. Ron Hubbard, "Introduction to Scientology Ethics"

Experience

• Horologist & Owner / Retired at Houtman Designs
  Oct 2001 - Present · 24 yrs 10 mos

  Some of my Inventions: #1 Ultrafast Analog Multiplier [Note the Schottky-diode core of this multiplier can operate up to the TeraHertz range]; [H. Houtman, "Analog Multipier Works Over Large Ffrequeny Range," EDN pp. 200-202, 16 Sept. 1999 #2 1 GHz Sampling Scope; [ H. Houtman "1-GHz sampling oscilloscope front end", Electronic Design pp.175-176 z(Sept. 18 2000)] #3 [Horology] 4-gear clock with 3 central hands, mostly of wood; [ H. Houtman, "Four-Gear Grandfather Clock"NAWCC Chapter 161, Horological Science Newsletter HSN 2002-3, pp.2-7 (July, 2002)] #4 Servo-remontoire [H. Houtman, "Detent Escapements, Central-Impulse Pallets, and Servo-remontoires", NAWCC Chapter 161, Horological Science Newsletter HSN 2007-5, pp.2-19, (Oct 2007)]. #5 True-cycloidal pendulum: [H. Houtman, "Parabolic Conical Pendulums, and Some New Cycloidal Pendulums," NAWCC Chapter 161, Horological Science Newsletter HSN-2011-1,pp. 2-15 (Jan. 2011)] #6 Frictionless Dead-Beat Clock Escapement: Each arm of this substantially silent escapement is double-articulated,so that on interaction with the moving escape-wheel, absolutely no sliding can occur. . . .(to be published) #7 Seconds-beating table-clock, only 50-cm high, with single-bob true-cycloidal pendulum, with clover-roller pinions, endless-chain-servo-remontoire, and frictionless escapement (to be published) #8 Holographic sundial: Unlike the CD-diffraction sundial which shows a sharp line purported to lie on the CD surface, My true-holographic sundial throws four images (Two real, and two virtual) outside, on a 45-degreer line from the hologram surface. Only one of the four is needed for the time readout . . . (to be published) Website offers articles on horology and electronics, including servo-remontoires, analog computers, silent clock escapements, and precisiom pendulums. Wood-working plans are offered for hobbiest construction of two eight-day, wooden-gear grandfather clocks

• research engineer at department of physics, university of british columbia
  May 1974 - Mar 1993 · 18 yrs 11 mos

  Lasers and Plasma Physics laboratory work, in the field of fusion-related studies, for future energy source, the high-temperature fusion of dueterium-tritium. mixtures. Inventions: #9 An integraph which can perform calculus: [H. Houtman, "An Integraph for Determination of Integrals and Areas", American Journal of Physics (American Association of Physics Teachers), Vol 52(5), pp. 468-469 (May 1984)] #10 3-bar linkage for linear scaling in Y, but not X: [H. Houtman, "Anisotropic Pantograph," Review of Scientific Instruments Vol. 58(8), pp. 1507-1509 (August 1987).

• engineering physicist / computer programmer at triumf
  May 1971 - May 1974 · 3 yrs 1 mo

  May 1971 – May 1974 (3 years 1 month) I was an important member of Beam Dynamics Group at Triumf, performing detailed computer studies and simulations, to verify and upgrade design of Triumf Cyclotron, the largest in the world. In 1973, I developed a very important computer code, RELAX3D, which is now used world-wide to calculate electric fields in arbitrary geometric configurations of electrodes. It is maintained and upgraded as needed by C. J. Kost and F. W. Jones, both at Triumf. Again employed in 1991-1992 at Triumf, as a consultant/physicist, I redesigned an important high current, extraction magnetic channel (MC3) for the Triumf cyclotron beam extraction, so that the beam of H- ions could be used in subsequent beamlines and experimental areas.