Engineering Hall of Fame: Reginald Fessenden
October marks the sesquicentennial of an important, but often overlooked, figure in engine...More
21 Oct 2016
Category: History Column
Your Engineering Heritage: Could We be Heroes – or Role Models?
Modern engineers merit societys praise and publicity for their technical and financial acc...More
16 Aug 2016
Going Rogue: A Brief History of the Computerized Dungeon Crawl
Possibly more than any other gaming system, Dungeons and Dragons influence on the developm...More
7 Jul 2016
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 telep...More
20 Jun 2016
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 cel...More
20 May 2016
Engineering Hall of Fame: Claude Shannon & Paul Baran – Pioneers of the Internet Age
On 30 April, we will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Claude E. Shannon, fo...More
6 Apr 2016
Your Engineering Heritage: Scanners and Computer Image Processing
Modern scanners can reproduce extremely high dots per inch (DPI) copies of media in second...More
8 Feb 2016
Your Engineering Heritage: Why Was Sarnoff Allowed to Sell Stalin Television?
In June 1937, Radio Corporation of America (RCA) engineer Loren Jones arrived in Moscow to...More
19 Jan 2016
Your Engineering Heritage: Newark’s Past and Future as a High-Technology Center
Newarks past as a site of a number of telephone-related innovations provides a historical ...More
15 Dec 2015