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Your Engineering Heritage: Electromagnetic Quackery and Bizarre Medical Devices
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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
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Your Engineering Heritage: GPS, the Gyroscope, Einstein and the Military

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Your Engineering Heritage: What is a Minicomputer?

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Your Engineering Heritage: The Electric Chair
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Your Engineering Heritage: The Electric Chair

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In 1933, conductor Leopold Stokowski and AT&T collaborated to put on the worlds first demo...More
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Your Engineering Heritage: No Eyestrain Permissible: Electrical Aspects of The Holland Tunnel As Revealed By The Stevens Archives
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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
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Unveiling the Engineering and Technology History Wiki

With funding from a grant from the United Engineering Foundation, the IEEE History Center ...More
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Your Engineering Heritage: Fax for the Memories
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Your Engineering Heritage: Fax for the Memories

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Which Stimulates Innovation More, War or Peace?

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