Obituaries of Donald Macadie, MBE, inventor of the Avometer

Obituaries of Donald Macadie, MBE, inventor of the Avometer.

Extracted from Wireless World April 1955, Page 156.

Donald Macadie, M.B.E., the inventor of the original DC multi-range amps-volts-ohms meter, which later became known as the Avometer, died at the age of 83. After his retirement from the Post Office in 1933, he devoted a considerable part of his time to the activities of the Automatic Coil Winder and Electrical Equipment Company which he helped to form in 1923 to manufacture the Macadie coil winder and the Avometer.

Extracted from Wireless World May 1955, Page 265.

DONALD MACADIE, MBE. We regret to announce the death of Donald Macadie, M.B.E., the inventor of the AvoMeter.

He was born in the county of Caithness in 1871, came to London at an early age, and joined the Edison-Bell Phonograph Company, later transferring to the National Telephone Company with whom he worked as an engineer in Liverpool and Nottingham. In 1932 the M.B.E. was conferred upon him and he retired from the Post Office in the following year at the age of 62.

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