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Engineering and Pop Culture: Leopold Stokowski and Bell Labs, a Sound Collaboration
In 1933, conductor Leopold Stokowski and AT&T collaborated to put on the worlds first demonstration of high-fidelity sound in auditory…
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Your Engineering Heritage: Dials, Keypads and Smartphones
It happens millions of times every day. Someone picks up a smartphone to make a call. The number hasn't been…
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Your Engineering Heritage: Video Telephony: An idea whose time may have finally come
Today, with apps and services such as Skype and FaceTime, video telephone calls are cheap, easy and readily available over…
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Engineering Hall of Fame: Charles Kettering
Charles Kettering was one of the most distinguished engineers of the twentieth century, serving for decades as the director of…
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Engineering Hall of Fame: John J. Carty
He began as a telephone operator, and fifty one years later was Vice President of AT&T and Chair of the…
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Your Engineering Heritage: The Foundations of Mobile and Cellular Telephony
On 17 June 1946, a driver in St. Louis pulled out a handset from under his car's dashboard, placed a…
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Your Engineering Heritage: Telstar’s 50th Anniversary
But fifty years ago this month on 10 July, 1962 that was the time in Cape Canaveral, Florida when NASA…
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Your Engineering Heritage: Fiber Optics
Up until the 1960s, all transmission was analog; the modulations were electrical analogs of the original sounds being transmitted.
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A Brief History of the U.S. Federal Government and Innovation (Part II: 1917-1945)
In this second installment of a series of articles on the long, broad and deep history of the federal government's…
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Your Engineering Heritage: The IEEE Archives
The IEEE History Center has now been in existence for thirty years. And while programs and initiatives have come and…