History Column
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Your Engineering Heritage: The $25 Million Ceiling Fan and the £100 Million Server
In the 1800s, a signal or telegraph problem affected a few trains, and perhaps a hundred or so passengers. Today, the effects can be global, and affect many thousands of people.
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IEEE REACH Beta Website is Live!
REACH (Raising Engineering Awareness through the Conduit of History) provides free, online educational resources to high-school history teachers to enable them to incorporate history of technology and engineering into their classrooms.
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Your Engineering Heritage: The Hidden Legacies of RCA Laboratories
Many of RCA Labs' technological innovations are widely recognized; while other noteworthy accomplishments have persisted in relative obscurity.
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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 IEEE History Center’s REACH Program Pilots in New Jersey High School
Excitement, intrigue and laughter filled two global history classrooms at Manalapan High School when history teachers introduced the IEEE History Centers first REACH pilot in their classrooms.
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Engineering Hall of Fame: Reginald Fessenden
October marks the sesquicentennial of an important, but often overlooked, figure in engineering history: Reginald Fessenden
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Your Engineering Heritage: Could We be Heroes – or Role Models?
Modern engineers merit societys praise and publicity for their technical and financial accomplishments, but only a few its heroic laurels.
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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 profound.
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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 transposition in power lines to overcome inductive disturbance.
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Your Engineering Heritage: Edison, the Electrical Engineer, Spearheaded Central Station Business
By the summer of 1878, Thomas Edison was exhausted by both constant work and new-found celebrity, so he took a western vacation before pursuing a new interest: electric lighting.