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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 70. Chapters: Niklaus Wirth, Robert Watson-Watt, Edwin Howard Armstrong, Jack Kilby, Maher Arar, Bruce Jackson, Otto Julius Zobel, John Stone Stone, Stevan Ognenovski, Rosalind Picard, Ke Wu, David Packard, Geoffrey Dummer, John Brennan Crutchley, George Ashley Campbell, Alan Blumlein, List of electrical engineers, Leonard George Chapman, Ivor Catt, Christopher Snowden, Carver Mead, Tommy Flowers, Godfrey Hounsfield, Michael M. Sears, Homer Dudley, Edward Keonjian, Tadahiro Sekimoto, Ernst Alexanderson, Scott Burns, Ray Dolby, Ralph Hartley, Alan Archibald Campbell-Swinton, Alec Reeves, Harry David Belock, John Milton Miller, Jacob K. White, Walter Bruch, Rahul Sarpeshkar, Marcian Hoff, Hank Magnuski, Jurgen Czarske, Neil Trevett, Amnon Yariv, R. M. Foster, Richard Grimsdale, Arnold Frederic Wilkins, Nobutoshi Kihara, Alexander Tetelbaum, Albert Charles Bartlett, Vebjorn Tandberg, Allen Coombs, Tadeusz Zagajewski, Roger Mayer, Joe Tarnowski, Volodymyr Ivanovych Savchenko, Bruce Zinky, Hermann Gummel, William E. Newell, Lars Monrad-Krohn, Roderick Snell, Camillo Olivetti, Simon Brattel. Excerpt: Maher Arar (Arabic: ) (born 1970) is a telecommunications engineer with dual Syrian and Canadian citizenship who resides in Canada. His story is one of the most famous cases of extraordinary rendition in recent times. Arar was detained during a layover at John F. Kennedy International Airport in September 2002 on his way home to Canada from a family vacation in Tunis. He was held without charges in solitary confinement in the United States for nearly two weeks, questioned, and denied meaningful access to a lawyer. The US government suspected him of being a member of Al Qaeda and deported him, not to Canada, his current home, but to his native Syria, even though its government is known to use torture. He was detained in Syria for a...
