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SparkFun's Inventor's Kit, v4.0 An accelerometer and magnetic compass board from SparkFun. All products designed and produced by SparkFun are released as open-source hardware (OSHW), [5] with schematics, EAGLE files, and datasheets posted on each product page.
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LittleBits is introducing three new kits that teach children about electronics and how to think with a creative, inventive and activist mindset. The Base Inventor Kit, which will retail for $99.99 ...
9 Albyn Place, Edinburgh, Campbell-Swinton's Edinburgh home has a plaque to his memory. Alan Archibald Campbell-Swinton FRS (18 October 1863 – 19 February 1930) was a Scottish consulting electrical engineer, who provided the theoretical basis for the electronic television, two decades before the technology existed to implement it. [1]
Eric Roberts Laithwaite (14 June 1921 – 27 November 1997) was an English electrical engineer, known as the "Father of Maglev" [1] for his development of the linear induction motor and maglev rail system after Hermann Kemper's theories and after Charles Wheatstone's pioneering.
The kit was created by Alfred Carlton Gilbert, who was an American athlete, magician, toy-maker, business man, and inventor of the well-known Erector Set.Gilbert believed that toys were the foundation in building a "solid American character", and many of his toys had some type of educational significance to them.
Emma Lilian Todd (12 June 1865 – 26 September 1937), originally from Washington, D.C., and later New York City, was a self-taught inventor who grew up with a love for mechanical devices. The New York Times issue of November 28, 1909, [ 1 ] identified her as the first woman in the world to design airplanes, which she started in 1906 or earlier.
Thomas E. Murray (October 21, 1860 – July 21, 1929) was an American inventor and businessman who developed electric power plants for New York City as well as many electrical devices which influenced life around the world, including the dimmer switch and screw-in fuse. It has been said that he "invented everything from the power plant up to ...