Electrical Engineering

Graphene is known for its exceptionally high tensile strength, electrical conductivity, transparency, and being the thinnest two-dimensional material in the world.

The most common use of PTFE, consuming about 50% of production, is for the insulation of wiring in aerospace and computer applications (e.g. hookup wire, coaxial cables).

Attached to the telescope was a radio receiver that could amplify faint cosmic signals by a factor of several million

Marrison, a telecommunications engineer at Bell Laboratories, was searching for more reliable frequency standards.

graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1896, majoring in electrical engineering

the foundation for the development of the modern electronic speed flash

Guglielmo Giovanni Maria Marconi, 1st Marquess of Marconi (25 April 1874-20 July 1937), was an Italian electrical engineer, inventor, and politician known for his creation of a practical radio wave-based wireless telegraph system.

John Logie Baird (; 13 August 1888-14 June 1946) was a Scottish inventor, electrical engineer and innovator who demonstrated the world's first mechanical television system on 26 January 1926.

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Sir John Ambrose Fleming (29 November 1849-18 April 1945) was an English electrical engineer and physicist.

Percy LaBaron Spencer (July 19, 1894, Howland, Maine, U.S, September 8, 1970, Newton, Massachusetts, U.S.) was an American physicist, electrical engineer, and inventor of the microwave oven.

Bernard Silver (September 21, 1924, August 28, 1963) was an American electrical engineer who co-invented the barcode alongside Norman Joseph Woodland.

Edith Clarke (February 10, 1883, October 29, 1959) was an American electrical engineer and academic.

Phoebe Sarah Hertha Ayrton (born Phoebe Sarah Marks; 28 April 1854-26 August 1923), known in her adult life as Hertha Ayrton, was an English electrical engineer, mathematician, physicist and inventor, and suffragette.

Seymour Roger Cray (September 28, 1925, October 5, 1996) was an American electrical engineer, computer scientist, mathematician, and supercomputer architect who designed a series of computers that were the fastest in the world for decades, and founded Cray Research, which built many of these machines.

Charles Proteus Steinmetz (born Karl August Rudolph Steinmetz; April 9, 1865, October 26, 1923) was a Prussian-American mathematician and electrical engineer and professor at Union College.

Reginald Aubrey Fessenden (October 6, 1866, July 22, 1932) was a Canadian-American electrical engineer and inventor who received hundreds of patents in fields related to radio and sonar between 1891 and 1936 (seven of them after his death).

Lee de Forest (August 26, 1873, June 30, 1961) was an American inventor, electrical engineer, and early pioneer in electronics of fundamental importance.

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Claude Elwood Shannon (April 30, 1916, February 24, 2001) was an American polymath who was a mathematician, electrical engineer, computer scientist, cryptographer, and inventor known as the "father of information theory", and the man who laid the foundations of the Information Age.

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Microwave technology

Telecommunications equipment

Electrical generators

Optical diodes

Electrical generators

Capacitors

Optical diodes

Telecommunications equipment

Electrical generators

Capacitors

Semiconductor devices

Electronic test equipment

Semiconductor devices

Telephony

Telephony

Telecommunications equipment

Capacitors

Microwave technology

Electronic test equipment

Optical diodes

Microwave technology

Television technology

Electrical components

Electric arcs

Electron beam

Electric power conversion

Electronic display devices

Electric power systems components

Electronic design

High-definition television

Bo′Bo′ electric locomotives

Radio technology

Electric locomotives of the United States

Electric power conversion

Television technology

Radio-frequency identification

Telecommunications

Lasers

Amateur radio

Electric two-wheel vehicles

Electronic amplifiers

Radio telescopes

Electrical engineering

Electric arcs

John Adam Presper "Pres" Eckert Jr. (April 9, 1919, June 3, 1995) was an American electrical engineer and computer pioneer.

Ernst Werner Siemens (von Siemens from 1888; SEEM-ənz; German: [ˈziːməns, -mɛns]; 13 December 1816-6 December 1892) was a German electrical engineer, inventor and industrialist.

Sir Carl Wilhelm Siemens (4 April 1823-19 November 1883), anglicised to Charles William Siemens, was a German-British electrical engineer and businessman.

Like a flatbed scanner, it consists of a light source, a lens, and a light sensor for translating optical impulses into electrical signals.

An incandescent light bulb, also known as an incandescent lamp or incandescent light globe, is an electric light that produces illumination by Joule heating a filament until it glows.

A loudspeaker (commonly referred to as a speaker or, more fully, a speaker system) is a combination of one or more speaker drivers, an enclosure, and electrical connections (possibly including a crossover network).

A toaster is a small electric appliance that uses radiant heat to cook sliced bread into toast.

Wire bonding is a method of making interconnections between an integrated circuit (IC) or other semiconductor device and its packaging during semiconductor device fabrication.

In electricity generation, a generator, also called an electric generator, electrical generator, and electromagnetic generator is an electromechanical device that converts mechanical energy to electrical energy for use in an external circuit.

A solar cell, also known as a photovoltaic cell (PV cell), is an electronic device that converts the energy of light directly into electricity by using the photovoltaic effect.

Reflow soldering is a process in which a solder paste (a sticky mixture of powdered solder and flux) is used to temporarily attach anywhere from one to thousands of tiny electrical components to their contact pads, after which the entire assembly is subjected to controlled heat.

An electric current in the gas excites mercury vapor, to produce ultraviolet and make a phosphor coating in the lamp glow.

The ER200 was a Soviet electric train built in Riga by Rīgas Vagonbūves Rūpnīca.

A Shabbat elevator is an elevator which works in a special mode, operating automatically, to satisfy the Jewish religious law requiring Jews to abstain from operating electrical switches on Shabbat.

Tesla claimed to have conceived of it after studying the Van de Graaff generator.

The mode usually overrides the usual, everyday operation of the electrical appliance and makes the operation of the appliance comply with the rules of Halakha (Jewish law).

Newman's Energy Machine was a DC motor which the inventor, Joseph Newman, claimed to produce mechanical power exceeding the electrical power being supplied to it.

Perepiteia is claimed to be a new generator developed by the Canadian inventor Thane Heins.

The coil can produce a uniform magnetic field in a volume of space when an electric current is passed through it.

In electronics and electrical engineering, a fuse is an electrical safety device that operates to provide overcurrent protection of an electrical circuit.

Closed-circuit television (CCTV), also known as video surveillance, is the use of closed-circuit television cameras to transmit a signal to a specific place on a limited set of monitors.

A rotary dial is a component of a telephone or a telephone switchboard that implements a signaling technology in telecommunications known as pulse dialing.

A triode is an electronic amplifying vacuum tube (or thermionic valve in British English) consisting of three electrodes inside an evacuated glass envelope: a heated filament or cathode, a grid, and a plate (anode).

A walkie-talkie, more formally known as a handheld transceiver or handheld radio, is a hand-held, portable, two-way radio transceiver.

There are two main types: the stovetop kettle, which uses heat from a hob, and the electric kettle, which is a small kitchen appliance with an internal heating element.

Quartz clocks and quartz watches are timepieces that use an electronic oscillator regulated by a quartz crystal to keep time.

A camcorder is a self-contained portable electronic device with video and audio recording as its primary function.

Power windows or electric windows are automobile windows which can be raised and lowered by pressing a button or switch, as opposed to using a crank handle.

Starters can be electric, pneumatic, or hydraulic.

A thermocouple, also known as a thermoelectrical thermometer, is an electrical device consisting of two dissimilar electrical conductors forming an electrical junction.

Philo Taylor Farnsworth (August 19, 1906, March 11, 1971) was an American inventor who was granted the first patent for the television by the United States government.

Hans Christian Ørsted (Danish: [ˈɶɐ̯steð] ; 14 August 1777-9 March 1851), sometimes transliterated as Oersted ( UR-sted), was a Danish chemist and physicist who discovered that electric currents create magnetic fields.

Modern-day home appliances use electric power to automatically clean clothes.

However, digital cameras use an image pickup device that is electronic, compared to chemical.

Once the wash is finished, the water is drained; more hot water enters the tub by means of an electromechanical solenoid valve, and the rinse cycle(s) begin.

Most modern photocopiers use a technology called xerography, a dry process that uses electrostatic charges on a light-sensitive photoreceptor to first attract and then transfer toner particles (a powder) onto paper in the form of an image.

He is best known for his creation of the railway air brake and for being a pioneer in the development and use of alternating current (AC) electrical power distribution.

Magnetic tape is a medium for magnetic storage made of a thin, magnetizable coating on a long, narrow strip of plastic film.

First released in Japan in October 1982, the CD was the second optical disc format to reach the market, following the larger LaserDisc (LD).

A liquid-crystal display (LCD) is a flat-panel display or other electronically modulated optical device that uses the light-modulating properties of liquid crystals combined with polarizers to display information.

Die singulation, also called wafer dicing, is the process in semiconductor device fabrication by which dies are separated from a finished wafer of semiconductor.

Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847, October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman known for his work on the incandescent light bulb, the phonograph, electric power distribution and early motion pictures.

He proposed Moore's law, which makes the observation that the number of transistors in an integrated circuit (IC) doubles about every two years.

Since then, electricity and computerized control have advanced traffic light technology and increased intersection capacity.

A strobe light or stroboscopic lamp, commonly called a strobe, is a device used to produce regular flashes of light.

The death ray or death beam is a theoretical particle beam or electromagnetic weapon first theorized around the 1920s and 1930s.

A Shabbat lamp is a special lamp that has movable parts to expose or block out its light so it can be turned "on" or "off" while its power physically remains on.

The KosherSwitch (a.k.a. "Kosher Switch", "Shabbos switch", "Shabbat switch") is a wall switch marketed to the observant Jewish market and institutions servicing this market, as a means of controlling electricity on-demand on Shabbat and Jewish holidays in a manner that is permissible according to some Orthodox authorities, though some reject it.

Corbett's electrostatic machine is a static electricity generating device that was made by the Shaker physician Thomas Corbett in 1810.

Originally designed as turbotrains to be powered by gas turbines, TGV prototypes evolved into electric trains with the 1973 oil crisis.

A relay is an electrically operated switch.

The cassette tape, officially named the Compact Cassette, and also known as audio cassette, or simply tape or cassette, is an analog magnetic tape recording format for audio recording and playback.

Smoke can be detected either optically (photoelectric) or by physical process (ionization).

The simplest form of a metal detector consists of an oscillator producing an alternating current that passes through a coil producing an alternating magnetic field.

Intrusion-alarm systems are combined with closed-circuit television surveillance (CCTV) systems to record intruders' activities and interface to access control systems for electrically locked doors.

A garbage disposal unit (also known as a waste disposal unit, food waste disposer (FWD), in-sink macerator, garbage disposer, or garburator) is a device, usually electrically powered, installed under a kitchen sink between the sink's drain and the trap.

It is based on the fact that atoms have quantised energy levels, and transitions between such levels are driven by very specific frequencies of electromagnetic radiation.

In 1861, he constructed the first make-and-break telephone, today called the Reis telephone.

Narutowicz also directed the construction of the first European hydroelectric power plants in Monthey, Mühleberg and Andelsbuch.

Charles Lyon Krum (1851/2, September 25, 1937) was a key figure in the development of the teleprinter, a machine which played a key role in the history of telegraphy and computing.

Karl Ferdinand Braun (German: [ˈfɛʁdinant ˈbʁaʊ̯n] ; 6 June 1850-20 April 1918) was a German applied physicist who shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Guglielmo Marconi for their contributions to the development of radio.

Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta (18 February 1745-5 March 1827) was an Italian chemist and physicist who was a pioneer of electricity and power, and is credited as the inventor of the electric battery and the discoverer of methane.

Gary Keith Starkweather (January 9, 1938, December 26, 2019) was an American engineer who invented the laser printer and color management.

Fujio Masuoka (舛岡 富士雄, Masuoka Fujio; born May 8, 1943) is a Japanese engineer, who has worked for Toshiba and Tohoku University, and is currently chief technical officer (CTO) of Unisantis Electronics.

This was the first practical telecommunications system of the industrial age, and was used until the 1850s when electric telegraph systems replaced it.

On 15 November 1886, he opened his own "Workshop for Precision Mechanics and Electrical Engineering" in Stuttgart.

He studied in the department of electric and electronic engineering at Hosei University.

Michael Faraday (22 September 1791-25 August 1867) was an English chemist and physicist who contributed vastly to the study of electrochemistry and electromagnetism.

Alexandre-Edmond Becquerel (French: [alɛksɑ̃dʁ ɛdmɔ̃ bɛkʁɛl]; 24 March 1820-11 May 1891) was a French physicist who studied the solar spectrum, magnetism, electricity, and optics.

In 1937 he created a portable radio signaling system for his employer CM&S, which he called a "packset", and was the first aircraft communications radio, but which later became known as the "Walkie-Talkie" for use on the ground.

Irving "Al" Gross (; February 22, 1918, December 21, 2000) was a pioneer in mobile wireless communication.

Landell received patents in Brazil and the United States during the first decade of the 1900s in which he also included designs that he claimed could transmit voice using radio waves.

He was a pioneer in the investigation of radio microwave optics, made significant contributions to botany, and was a major force behind the expansion of experimental science on the Indian subcontinent.

Captain Henry Joseph Round (2 June 1881-17 August 1966) was an English engineer and one of the early pioneers of radio.

Oleg Vladimirovich Losev (sometimes spelled Lossev or Lossew in English; Russian: Оле́г Влади́мирович Ло́сев; 10 May 1903-22 January 1942) was a Russian and Soviet scientist and inventor who made significant discoveries in the field of semiconductor junctions and the 6 "author's certificates" (the Soviet version of patents) for his discoveries.

James Robert Biard (May 20, 1931, September 23, 2022) was an American electrical engineer and inventor who held 73 U.S. patents.

Nick Holonyak Jr. (November 3, 1928, September 18, 2022) was an American electronics engineer.

have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Electric Tele-Thermoscopes

He invented the electric clock, the electric printing telegraph, and the first fax machine.

in 1839 succeeded in contriving the powerful voltaic battery

November 21, 1846) was an American inventor and pioneer in development of the incandescent light bulb.

George Harry Heilmeier (May 22, 1936, April 21, 2014) was an American engineer, manager, and a pioneering contributor to liquid crystal displays (LCDs), for which he was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.

Ewald Georg von Kleist (10 June 1700-11 December 1748), also known as Ewald Jürgen von Kleist, was a German jurist, Lutheran cleric, physicist and the inventor of the Leyden jar.

Pieter van Musschenbroek (14 March 1692-19 September 1761) was a Dutch scientist credited with the invention of a pioneering capacitor design in the Leyden jar in 1746.

degrees, all in Electrical Engineering, from the Technion Israel Institute ofTechnology, Haifa, Israel, in 1954, and 1957, respectively, and the D.Sc.

He invented an improved telephone transmitter, one of the first types of microphones.

Steve Sasson invented the digital camera, changing the future of photography and transforming an industry.

His accomplishments include pioneering the dynamic RAM memory cell used in most computers today, and playing a key role in the development of the concept of MOSFET scaling.