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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 ...
The timeline of historic inventions is a chronological list of particularly significant technological inventions and their inventors, where known. [ a ] The dates in this article make frequent use of the units mya and kya , which refer to millions and thousands of years ago, respectively.
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).
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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 ...
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The invention builds on acetylene lamps from the 1890s. 1901 Peter Cooper Hewitt creates the first commercial mercury-vapor lamp. 1904 Alexander Just and Franjo Hanaman invent the tungsten filament for incandescent lightbulbs. 1910 Georges Claude demonstrates neon lighting at the Paris Motor Show. 1912 Charles P. Steinmetz invents the metal ...