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IEEE Summer Program Encourages Teens to TryEngineering
IEEE recently launched a summer program to expose teenagers to engineering, and help them to understand the impact that an…
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Your Engineering Heritage: Edison, the Electrical Engineer, Spearheaded Central Station Business
By the summer of 1878, Thomas Edison was exhausted by both constant work and new-found celebrity, so he took a…
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A Brief History of the U.S. Federal Government and Innovation (Part III: 1945 and Beyond)
In this third installment of a series of articles on the long, broad and deep history of the federal government's…
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A Brief History of the U.S. Federal Government and Innovation (Part I): From Independence to World War I (1787 — 1917)
A brief history of U.S. government involvement in technological innovation, which turns out to be long, broad and deep.