Jim Brittain and History at IEEE
James E. Brittain, a soft-spoken electrical engineering professor at Georgia Institute of ...More
11 Dec 2018
Tag: history
Innovation Looks Both Forward and Backward: How History Fosters Technological Progress
Can an understanding of history foster innovation? Certainly many great innovators have sa...More
18 Jul 2018
Your Engineering Heritage: Hertha Ayrton, Pioneering Woman Electrical Engineer and Feminist
Who was Hertha Ayrton, and why did the British Society for the History of Science name a p...More
21 Mar 2018
What Happened to the Engineering Societies Library?
Once considered to be the major library of engineering publications worldwide, the Enginee...More
20 Apr 2017
Engineering Hall of Fame: Reginald Fessenden
October marks the sesquicentennial of an important, but often overlooked, figure in engine...More
21 Oct 2016
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
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
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