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Edward L. Bowles, a Common card
Edward Lindley Bowles was an American electrical engineer.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 65
- DEF
- 67
- Power
- 132
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 870
Power 132 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 75 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- An MIT professor, he played a central role in the development and military application of radar during World War II.
- As expert consultant to Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson and communications consultant to the Army Air Forces, he helped translate laboratory technologies into operational weapons systems, particularly in the campaign against German U-boats in the Battle of the Atlantic.
- Before the war, Bowles built the communications engineering program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and directed the Round Hill Research Station, where he pioneered interdisciplinary research on radio propagation, fog detection, and aircraft instrument landing systems.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Edward L. Bowles article was read about 870 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 65 and blocks with 67: each hit it takes is cut by 27 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Edward L. Bowles (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Technology Portrait Studio, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.


