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The following timeline tables list the discoveries and inventions in the history of electrical and electronic engineering. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] History of discoveries timeline
1947 – Invention of the First Transistor at Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc. 1947 – Invention of Holography; 1948 – Birth of the Barcode; 1948 – The Discovery of the Principle of Self-Complementarity in Antennas and the Mushiake Relationship; 1948 – First Atomic Clock; 1948–1951 – Manchester University "Baby" Computer and its ...
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Engineering advances in the 1880s, including the invention of the transformer, led to electric utilities starting to adopting alternating current, up until then used primarily in arc lighting systems, as a distribution standard for outdoor and indoor lighting (eventually replacing direct current for such purposes).
His invention of the voltaic cell leads to the invention the electric battery. 1791 – Luigi Galvani discovers galvanic electricity and bioelectricity through experiments following an observation that touching exposed muscles in frogs' legs with a scalpel which had been close to a static electrical machine caused them to jump. He called this ...
The Lower Paleolithic period lasted over 3 million years, during which there many human-like species evolved including toward the end of this period, Homo sapiens.The original divergence between humans and chimpanzees occurred 13 (), however interbreeding continued until as recently as 4 Ma, with the first species clearly belonging to the human (and not chimpanzee) lineage being ...
Originally, the United Engineering Foundation had made a grant to develop an engineering intersociety web platform as a central historical repository. [9] Initially, the work was mainly done at the IEEE History Center. [10] annexed to the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ. [11]
Joseph John O'Connell (1861–1959), U.S. – number of inventions relating to telephony and electrical engineering; Theophil Wilgodt Odhner (1845–1903), Sweden/Russia – the Odhner Arithmometer, a mechanical calculator; Paul Offit (born 1951), U.S., along with Fred Clark and Stanley Plotkin, invented a pentavalent Rotavirus vaccine