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Thomas Graham Brown (10 April 1933 in Glasgow – 13 December 2019) was a Scottish engineer who was most notable for collaborating in the design of the first medical ultrasound machine along with the obstetrician and designer Ian Donald, a physician at the University of Glasgow and industrial designer and obstetrician John MacVicar. Life In 1944, Brown enrolled at Allan Glen's School in Glasgow. In April 1951, after completing school and making an exploratory visit to the company to meet the chief engineer, he joined Kelvin & Hughes Ltd at the time a Glasgow manufacturer of scientific instruments as a technical apprentice. Two years into his five year apprenticeship, he started working for Alex Rankin and to specialise in non-destructive testing. Career In 1956 Brown was promoted to research and development engineer at Kelvin & Hughes Ltd. Western Infirmary It was in late 1956 when Brown first met Ian Donald. Brown, although relatively young at twenty-three, had previously worked on an automatic flaw detector for testing of industrial products. It was while working in the Western Infirmary installing a bulb in an operating theatre that Brown found out that Donald was experimenting with the flaw detector. Brown immediately looked up Donald in the Infirmary directory, phoned him and arranged a meeting. When they met, Brown noticed that the Mark IIb was not manufactured by Kelvin & Hughes but instead had been manufactured under contract. He also noticed that the machine had been converted from using a double probe, one to produce pulses and one to receive the pulses, to a single probe. Not wanting to insult Donald by explaining why the machine was not working correctly, Brown offered to try and source another machine from somewhere. Brown phoned Alex Rankin, the man who collaborated with Brown on the automatic flaw detector, for help. Rankin offered to gift the latest Mk IV Flaw Detector which was subsequently forwarded to Glasgow Central station from the Barkingside Labs location of Kelvin & Hughes, for delivery to Brown.

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Thomas Graham Brown (10 April 1933 in Glasgow – 13 December 2019) was a Scottish engineer who was most notable for collaborating in the design of the first medical ultrasound machine along with the obstetrician and designer Ian Donald, a physician at the University of Glasgow and industrial designer and obstetrician John MacVicar. Life In 1944, Brown enrolled at Allan Glen's School in Glasgow. In April 1951, after completing school and making an exploratory visit to the company to meet the chief engineer, he joined Kelvin & Hughes Ltd at the time a Glasgow manufacturer of scientific instruments as a technical apprentice. Two years into his five year apprenticeship, he started working for Alex Rankin and to specialise in non-destructive testing. Career In 1956 Brown was promoted to research and development engineer at Kelvin & Hughes Ltd. Western Infirmary It was in late 1956 when Brown first met Ian Donald. Brown, although relatively young at twenty-three, had previously worked on an automatic flaw detector for testing of industrial products. It was while working in the Western Infirmary installing a bulb in an operating theatre that Brown found out that Donald was experimenting with the flaw detector. Brown immediately looked up Donald in the Infirmary directory, phoned him and arranged a meeting. When they met, Brown noticed that the Mark IIb was not manufactured by Kelvin & Hughes but instead had been manufactured under contract. He also noticed that the machine had been converted from using a double probe, one to produce pulses and one to receive the pulses, to a single probe. Not wanting to insult Donald by explaining why the machine was not working correctly, Brown offered to try and source another machine from somewhere. Brown phoned Alex Rankin, the man who collaborated with Brown on the automatic flaw detector, for help. Rankin offered to gift the latest Mk IV Flaw Detector which was subsequently forwarded to Glasgow Central station from the Barkingside Labs location of Kelvin & Hughes, for delivery to Brown.

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Thomas Graham Brown (10 April 1933 in Glasgow – 13 December 2019) was a Scottish engineer who was most notable for collaborating in the design of the first medical ultrasound machine along with the obstetrician and designer Ian Donald, a physician at the University of Glasgow and industrial designer and obstetrician John MacVicar.

Not who you're looking for? Others named Tom Brown: former professional Canadian football player, born 1936 · English translator and writer of satire · American professional football player (1921-2013) · American football and baseball player

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