Robert Colburn
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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…