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2 unusual facts about Eitel


Eitel

Ernst Johann Eitel, a German Protestant missionary to China and the author of a Cantonese dictionary.

Eitel-Friedrich Kentrat

Eitel-Friedrich Kentrat (11 September 1906, Amnéville – 9 January 1974) was a Korvettenkapitän with the Kriegsmarine during World War II.


Duchess Sophia Charlotte of Oldenburg

In September 1905, Eitel traveled to Lensahn, an Oldenburg residence, for several weeks duration.

Eimac

While employed by the small San Francisco, California manufacturing firm of Heintz & Kaufmann, Bill Eitel (amateur radio call sign W6UF) and Jack McCullough (W6CHE) convinced company president Ralph Heintz (W6XBB) to allow them to develop a transmitting tube that could operate at lower voltages than those then available to the amateur radio market, such as the RCA 204A or the 852.

Eitel Frederick of Zollern

Eitel Frederick the younger of Zollern (1454 – Montfoort, June 27, 1490), was an Admiral of the Netherlands.

Ernst-Johann Biron, Prince of Courland

Prince Ernst-Johann Karl Oskar Eitel-Friedrich Peter Burchard Biron of Courland (born August 6, 1940) is the senior male-line descendant of Ernst Johann von Biron and as such heir to the Duchy of Courland and Semigallia.

Prince Eitel Friedrich of Prussia

Raised at the cadet corps of Plön Castle, Prince Eitel was in the front line from the beginning of World War I and was wounded at Bapaume, where he commanded the Prussian First Foot Guards.


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