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
Category: History Column
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
Engineering Hall of Fame: Georges Claude
They say the neon lights are bright on Broadway. So sang the Drifters in their hit On Broa...More
1 Nov 2014
Your Engineering Heritage: Dials, Keypads and Smartphones
It happens millions of times every day. Someone picks up a smartphone to make a call. The ...More
1 Sep 2014
Your Engineering Heritage: The Long Road to Consumer Virtual Reality, Part II
The story of Hasbro Interactive's quest to bring a "Total Virtual Reality" game system to ...More
1 Aug 2014