Dr. Meredith Gourdine

   Dr. Meredith Gourdine was born in Newark New Jersey on September 26, 1929, and grew up in the streets of Harlem and Brooklyn. Meredith Gourdine attended Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and received a Ph.D. in Engineering Science from the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena.

Meredith Gourdine pioneered the research of electrogasdynamics. Electrogasdynamics is a way to disperse fog and smoke. By applying strong electrical forces to either you can control those elements. He was responsible for the engineering technique termed Incineraid for aiding in the removal of smoke from buildings. His work on gas dispersion developed techniques for dispersing fog from airport runways. Meredith Gourdine also created a generator that allowed for the cheaper transmission of electricity. He held more than 40 patents for various inventions.

Meredith Gourdine built a multi-million dollar corporation that is based on his ideas in the field of electrogasdynamics (EGD). Using the principles of EGD, Meredith Gourdine successfully converted natural gas to electricity for everyday use. Applications of EGD include refrigeration, desalination of sea water, and reducing the pollutants in smoke.

Meredith Gourdine served on the technical staff of the Ramo-Woolridge Corporation from 1957-58. He then became a Senior Research Scientist at the Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory from 1958-60. He became a Lab Director of the Plasmodyne Corporation from 1960-62 and Chief Scientist of the Curtiss-Wright Corporation from 1962 to 1964. In 1964, he served on the President's Panel on Energy.

Meredith Gourdine established a research laboratory, Gourdine Laboratories, in Livingston, New Jersey, with a staff of over 150.

As an interesting side note, Meredith Gourdine won the silver medal in the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki for the long jump. Meredith Gourdine is also blind. He died in Houston, Texas on November 20, 1998. Meredith Gourdine was serving as the president of Energy Innovation, Inc. of Houston, Texas at the time of his death.

Patents Issued To Dr. Gourdine:

Meredith C. Gourdine 1 #3,449,667
2 #3,573,845 
3 #3,581,468 
4 #3,582,694
5 #3,585,420
6 #3,592,541
7 #3,612,923 
8 #3,613,993
9 #3,650,092
10 #3,673,463 
11 #3,704,572 
12 #3,718,029 
13 #3,757,491
14 #4,433,003 
15 #4,498,631
16 #4,555,909 
17 #4,574,092
18 #4,850,537
19 #4,671,805
20 #4,916,033 
21 #5,297,005 
22 #5,422,787 
23 #5,456,596 
24 #5,487,957
25 #5,548,907 		 6/10/1969
4/6/1971 
6/1/1971
 6/1/1971
6/15/1971 
7/13/1971 
10/12/1971 
10/19/1971 
3/21/1972
6/27/1972 
12/5/1972 
2/27/1973 
9/11/1973 
2/21/1984
2/12/1985
12/3/1985 
3/4/1986
7/25/1989
6/6/1987
4/10/1990 
3/22/1994
6/6/1995
10/10/1995
1/30/1996
8/27/1996		 1 Electrogasdynamic coating system
2 Improved acoustic image reproduction system using a piezoelectric printer and electrogasdynamics 
3 Electrogasdynamic systems and methods
4 Turbulence inducing electrogasdynamic precipitator 
5 Alternating current systems employing multiple electrogasdynamic devices 
6 Copying system using electrogasdynamics
7 Electrogasdynamic converter with resistive channel 
8 Electrostatic painting method and apparatus 
9 Electrogasdynamic precipitator utilizing retarding fields 
10 Method and apparatus for electrogasdynamic coating 
11 Electrostatic precipitator system
12 Electrostatic mass per unit volume dust monitor 
13 Apparatus for suppressing airborne particles 
14 Electrogasdynamic coating system 
15 Electrogasdynamic coating system
16 Method and apparatus for improved cooling of hot materials 
17 Electrogasdynamic method and apparatus for detecting the properties of particulate matter entrained in gases
18 Method and apparatus for producing multivortex fluid flow 
19 Method for airport fog precipitation
20 Method and apparatus for converting chemical and thermal energy into electricity 
21 Apparatus and method for cooling heat generating electronic components in a cabinet 
22 Apparatus and method for cooling heat generating electronic components in a cabinet 
23 Method and apparatus for producing multivortex fluid flow 

24 Method and apparatus for converting chemical and thermal energy into electricity
25 Method and apparatus for transferring heat, mass, and momentum between a fluid and a surface