Jim Brittain and History at IEEE
James E. Brittain, a soft-spoken electrical engineering professor at Georgia Institute of ...More
11 Dec 2018
Category: History Column
There’ll be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight
As this sweltering North American summer of 2018 drags on, a lot of attention has been pai...More
27 Aug 2018
Innovation Looks Both Forward and Backward: How History Fosters Technological Progress
Can an understanding of history foster innovation? Certainly many great innovators have sa...More
18 Jul 2018
Your Engineering Heritage: Hertha Ayrton, Pioneering Woman Electrical Engineer and Feminist
Who was Hertha Ayrton, and why did the British Society for the History of Science name a p...More
21 Mar 2018
IEEE REACH Program Gains Traction in the K-12 Environment and Elsewhere
Over the past year, the IEEE REACH program, has received an overwhelmingly positive respon...More
20 Feb 2018
Your Engineering Heritage: The Telautograph: Handwriting at a Distance
The telautograph, developed by Elisha Gray and later improved by Foster Richie, fulfilled ...More
1 Feb 2018
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 o...More
14 Aug 2017
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 t...More
14 Dec 2016
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 S...More
15 Nov 2016