private consulting in communications for electrical power companies. In 1921 and 1922, he designed and installed the world's first carrier current telephone system on power lines above 50,000 volts. From 1923-1926 he worked for General Electric in Schenectady and New York City. In 1926 he returned to San Francisco for GE. There he led new high voltage developments and the application of vacuum tubes for the west coast's electric power industry, including power-line communications between Hoover Dam and Los Angeles. He then returned to Federal Telegraph Company as its Executive Vice President and Chief Engineer, managing its plant at Palo Alto. In January 1928, he was named to the board of the IEEE Institute, becoming chairman of the San Francisco section of the institute. From 1930 to 1943 Fuller was professor of electrical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, also serving as department chair. In this role he became friends with Ernest Lawrence, and constructed as a gift the Berkeley radiation laboratory's first large cyclotron. From 1946-1954, he was coordinator of contract research and acting professor of electrical engineering at Stanford. He was a Fellow of the Institute of Radio Engineers as of 1928, and the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, and a member of the American Physical Society. Fuller held 24 patents for inventions. Awards In 1919, he received the IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award by the IEEE institute for contributions to long-distance radio communication. It was the first year it was awarded. References Further reading New York Times obituary, April 28, 1987 IEEE Oral History, May 29, 1976 External links American electrical engineers Radio pioneers 1890 births 1987 deaths People from Portland, Oregon Cornell University College of Engineering alumni 20th-century American engineers