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Re:Smith Chart by Merrill on Friday November 22, 2019 @07:08PM (#21611421)
"Remembering Phillip H. Smith on his 100th Birthday" - https://faculty.up.edu/ainan/aps2005inanMarch05.pdf

>Smith approached a number of technical magazines for publication of his transmission line diagram; however the acceptance process was slow. Finally, after two years, Smith’s article describing his chart was published in the January 1939 issue of Electronics magazine. In a second article, published in the January 1944 issue of Electronics, Smith incorporated further improvements into his chart, including its usage alternatively as an impedance chart or an admittance chart.

Re:Smith Chart by Merrill on Friday November 22, 2019 @07:21PM (#21611496)
In the late '60s, the introduction of PL/I, which had complex numbers as a primitive type and a math library of functions of complex numbers, made transmission line calculations much easier.
Re:Smith Chart by GeorgeTirebiter on Friday November 22, 2019 @09:24PM (#21612005)
Fortran 66 had a COMPLEX data type.