Loughborough had scientific instruments borrowed from the Navy Yard, and using an oscilloscope and audio oscillator he and Wheat were able to work on a new technical level that had not been possible before.
Maybe there is a family connection to compatriot Franz Wittmann, prominent electrical engineer and inventor of the Wittmann-oscilloscope.
At IBM Watson, he received 7 Invention Achievement Award, Outstanding Innovation Award, for the world fastest oscilloscope (picosecond speed), and Invention of the Year and Award for inventing the Quiteron, a superconducting transistor.