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Cecil Alfred 'Coppy' Laws (also C A ‘Coppy’ Laws and C A Laws) (21 November 1916 – 28 May 2002) was a British electronic engineer and radar engineer during World War II, and the inventor of the domestic air ioniser or ionizer. ==Life== C A Coppy Laws was born in Great Yarmouth on 21 November 1916. In 1931 his father died, and to support the family his older brother took a job in a greengrocer’s and his mother went into service. The 14-year-old Cecil was boarded with a schoolfriend’s family, and came to terms with his loss by immersing himself in radio, his childhood hobby. He built the first TV in the street, and neighbours would crowd in to see the one hour of weekly broadcasting transmitted by the BBC. There was no money for further education, so he worked in a local shop recharging lead-acid accumulators for radios by day, and cycling 16 miles to evening classes and back, five nights a week for four years. This determination won him a first-class City and Guilds examination in radio communications. In 1936, aged 20, Laws took a job at Philco. He had striking, copper-coloured hair, and a young secretary, Rita Hay, coined the nickname ‘Coppy’. Coppy and Rita were married in 1942.〔Pat Williams Obituary of Coppy Laws, Independent newspaper, London, England, 4 June 2002〕 The couple had five sons. He died on 28 May 2002. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Coppy Laws」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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