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Engineering Hall of Fame: Alexander Graham Bell
"Mr. Watson, come here, I want you." Alexander Graham Bell spoke these words into his experimental telephone on 10 March…
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Your Engineering Heritage: Bell Labs and the Transistor
On a snowy early winter day in 1947 at Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill, N.J., a group of senior…
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Engineering & Popular Culture: Sports & Signal Processing
A look at the origins of the glowing puck and the Yellow Line.
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Engineering & Pop Culture: Public Telephones
Pay phones may be retreating from memory today, but for most of the years since Alexander Graham Bell's first telephone…
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Your Engineering Heritage: 125 Years of IEEE History
IEEE's roots go back 125 years to 1884 when electricity was just beginning to become a major force in society.