R. M. Bevensee

Electrical engineer · author of Electromagnetic Slow Wave Systems (1964)

R. M. Bevensee wrote Electromagnetic Slow Wave Systems, a technical monograph published by John Wiley & Sons in 1964. Its title page calls him an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. His four-line dedication thanks “my parents, Ayn Rand, and the glory of GOD”. It is the earliest match Quote Investigator found for the famous serial-comma joke.

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