Lloyd Espenschied (1889-1986)

Lloyd Espenschied (27 April 1889 – June 1, 1986) was an American electrical engineer who invented the modern coaxial cable with Herman Andrew Affel.

Biography
He was born in St. Louis, Missouri on 27th April, 1889.

In 1901 he moved to Brooklyn, New York. He became an amateur radio operator in 1904 and later worked for the United Wireless Telegraph Company. He graduated from the Pratt Institute in 1909 and then worked as an engineer for Telefunken Wireless Telegraph Company.

In 1916 while at Bell Telephone Laboratories he developed the first modern coaxial cable with Herman Affel.

He died on June 1, 1986 at a nursing home in Holmdel, New Jersey.