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Who is George Trinkaus? |
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Trinkaus (tring' kis), George Belden Born (1936) Pittsburgh. In his youth, a basement electrical experimenter and a novice-class ham. Formally educated at Mercersberg Academy, at Colgate University, (BA, 1959), and at New York University (where his pursuit of an MA yielded to a "grand tour" of Europe). In New York he was a free-lance medical writer, and writer for the Encyclopedia Americana (where he wrote short entries in a telegraphic style honored here). Held various staff, editorial and administrative posts at Holt, Rinehart & Winston (managing editor, dictionaries), at Harcourt Brace and at Random House (project editor), and at Macmillan (senior editor). At Holt (mid-1960's) directed the creation of a computerized dictionary word list, using the company's IBM 360 mainframe and staff, in what may have been the first adventure in word processing for what was then a strictly numerical technology. Editorial areas included lexicography, the new grammar, electronics, industrial technology. Macmillan, his last stop in corporate publishing, transferred him to California (1971), and he remains on the West Coast. He is author (as George Belden) of an early consumerist book, Tactics of the Bill Collector and How to Fight Back, Grosset & Dunlap, 1974. (A totally revised and updated version written with ex-bill-collector Steve Katz will soon to be published as Debtsmanship.) The book was attacked by the Massachusetts Bar, reviewed as a social phenomenon by The New Republic, and as news by UPI; also it was grist for the radio-TV media mill, was serialized in Family Circle, and was a mass paperback from Ace. He was a book-reviewer for The L.A. Free Press and the book-review editor at The Hollywood Daily News. Founder and director of Bookswest, which produced the first L.A. Book Fairs (1975-78) and editor and publisher of BooksWest Magazine, an alternative magazine of the book industry. In BooksWest he published many leading writers of the time. He wrote "The Title Glut," on overproduction and market control in the book industry, which was nominated for article of the year 1978 by the American Library Association's Intellectual Freedom Committee. Moved from L.A. to Ojai, California (1980). Arrested four times in civil disobedience actions on nuclear and war issues, defendant in the "Pt. Mugu 12" trial, a media spokes to the world press at the Diablo Canyon nuke blockade of 1981. An organizer of, and community spokes for the resistance to the USA Petrochem refinery expansion. Served as the community rep on the Ventura County EIR Committee on this issue, which was ultimately resolved by the shut-down of the refinery. (Campaign manager for candidate for Ojai City Council.) His next land-use issue would be 24 years later, a resistance to a 35-story office-condo tower in Portland. Many public speeches and radio interviews as a spokes for all the above projects. In mid-1980's discovered a collection of Nikola Tesla's U.S. patents, which had been xeroxed at the National Archives. This prompted his study of Tesla's electric technology. Rediscovered long-neglected scientific passions, set up an electrical lab, and, over the years, from 1986, researched, wrote, and published Tesla the Lost Inventions, Tesla Coil, Son of Tesla Coil, and Radio Tesla. Also edited Tesla's The True Wireless and the U.S. Navy's Magnetic Amplifiers. All are in print from his High Voltage Press (See Catalog) and published in e-book by Wheelock Mountain Press (www.tesla-ebooks.com). In Oregon since 1989, he was a founder of the Portland Tesla Technology Roundtable. A skeptical fascination with the workings of modern media, nurtured by too many years in New York and Hollywood, prompted his writing and publishing the documentary critiques called How the Chronicle Invented AIDS and NBC Spins 911.. High Voltage Press |