Your Engineering Heritage: Electromagnetic Quackery and Bizarre Medical Devices
An inadvertent side effect of the electrical revolutions of the 18th and 19th centuries wa...More
13 Nov 2015
Category: History Column
Your Engineering Heritage: GPS, the Gyroscope, Einstein and the Military
For the first time in human history, instant, pin-point location on the planet is a mass c...More
27 Oct 2015
Your Engineering Heritage: What is a Minicomputer?
Minicomputers are back, but then they never really left. This year, marketers of personal ...More
10 Sep 2015
Your Engineering Heritage: The Electric Chair
This month marks a macabre anniversary that brings together the debate over cruel and unus...More
19 Aug 2015
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 demo...More
15 Jul 2015
Your Engineering Heritage: No Eyestrain Permissible: Electrical Aspects of The Holland Tunnel As Revealed By The Stevens Archives
Long considered a triumph of civil engineering, the Holland Tunnel also pioneered the appl...More
11 Jun 2015
Unveiling the Engineering and Technology History Wiki
With funding from a grant from the United Engineering Foundation, the IEEE History Center ...More
6 Apr 2015
Your Engineering Heritage: Fax for the Memories
If you Google fax machine sales history or some similar combination of terms, an interesti...More
5 Feb 2015
Which Stimulates Innovation More, War or Peace?
Which stimulates technological innovation more, war or peace? One problem with answering t...More
1 Dec 2014