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Tugboat Technology
Maneuvering tankers weighing as much as 200,000 tons, with variable factors, takes enormous precision and skill…and a lot of tugboat…
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“No Clear Substitutes”: Supply Chain Interruptions and How Engineers Approached Them in the Past
These IEEE History Center oral histories emphasized that supply chains are about people as much as they are about materials.
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Why Mobile Phones Can Do So Many Things: The Invention of The Fractal Antenna
Today’s mobile phones and countless other technologies owe their sleek design in part to antennas whose shapes are determined by…
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A Master Class in Ingenuity
On the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, IEEE Members share their memories of creating the technologies used in space.
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Your Engineering Heritage: Many Electrical Engineering Terms Are Older Than You Might Think
Electrical and computer engineering may be relatively young disciplines, but much of the terminology they use stretches back millennia.
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The Tesla Almost Nobody’s Heard Of: Frank Fowle and Alternating Current Transposition
Frank Fuller Fowle, a pioneer of long-distance transmission of electric power and of telephone communications, devised a general system of…
