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
Category: History Column
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
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
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