Nathan Brewer

Nathan Brewer is archival and digital content specialist at the IEEE History Center. Visit the IEEE History Center’s Web page. For more articles by History Center staff, visit their publications page or visit the IEEE History Center’s Web page. The IEEE History Center is partially funded by donations to the History Fund of the IEEE Foundation.

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Nathan Brewer6 November 2023
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Your Engineering Heritage: Daylight Saving Time in World War I and the Electrical Industry

For the last fifty years in the United States, autumn has been a time when the clocks fall back an…
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Nathan Brewer8 November 2022
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Ada Henry Van Pelt and the Electric Water Purifier

Remembering Ada Henry Van Pelt, the extraordinary inventor who has been referred to as “The Woman Edison” for her ingenuity.
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Nathan Brewer15 November 2021
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Ida Henrietta Hyde and the Micro-Electrode

Hyde's electrode is the earliest known micro-electrode for intracellular work, but she received little recognition in her lifetime for her…
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Nathan Brewer19 October 2020
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Your Engineering Heritage: Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla as Science Fiction Characters

During their lifetimes, Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla each appeared as characters in a number of what would today be…
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Nathan Brewer7 July 2016
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Going Rogue: A Brief History of the Computerized Dungeon Crawl

Possibly more than any other gaming system, Dungeons and Dragons influence on the development of video games has been incredibly…