Alan Gordon-Finlay
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Alan Gordon-Finlay
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Alan Gordon-Finlay was a British engineer and inventor of Scottish descent born in Australia. He is best known for having co-created the Filene-Finlay simultaneous interpretation system at the League of Nations in Geneva after the First World War, the first of its kind and the fore-runner to modern interpretation systems in use throughout the world today. A patent was purchased by IBM in 1930, taking it to global production.
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British engineer (1890–1959)
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2024-03-10T18:52:39Z
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