Editing Clapp oscillator (section)

== History ==
The Clapp oscillator design was published by [[James Kilton Clapp]] in 1948 while he worked at [[General Radio]].<ref>{{cite journal |first=J. K. |last=Clapp |author1-link=James Kilton Clapp |title=An inductance-capacitance oscillator of unusual frequency stability |journal=[[Proc. IRE]] |volume=367 |pages=356–358 |date=March 1948 |issue=3 |doi=10.1109/JRPROC.1948.233920 |s2cid=51652881 }}</ref> According to Czech engineer Jiří Vackář, oscillators of this kind were independently developed by several inventors, and one developed by [[Geoffrey G. Gouriet|Gouriet]] had been in operation at the [[BBC]] since 1938.<ref>{{cite report |first=Jiri |last=Vackář |date=December 1949 |title=LC Oscillators and their Frequency Stability |publisher=Tesla National Corporation |location=Prague, Czechoslovakia |id=Tesla Technical Report |url=http://n1ekv.org/Oscillators/Vackar_wholepaper.pdf |access-date=2008-12-20 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090124081121/http://n1ekv.org/Oscillators/Vackar_wholepaper.pdf |archive-date=2009-01-24 }}</ref>