Sixty years ago this month, the PROCEEDINGS OF THE INSTITUTE OF RADIO ENGINEERS (IRE) included a paper on the iconoscope, described as part of an all-electronic television system being developed at the Radio Corporation of America (RCA). The author of the …

Seventy years ago this month, the PROCEEDINGS OF THE INSTITUTE OF RADIO ENGINEERS (IRE) included a paper on long-wave radio measurements by Harold H. Beverage and Harold O. Peterson. Both of the authors were in the Engineering Department of the Radio Corporation of America (RCA), …

The University of Illinois formed the honorary society, Eta Kappa Nu, in 1904. Its principal objective is to encourage excellence in electrical and computer engineering; and it conducts programs that reward leadership and good citizenship at both the student and …

Sixty years ago this month the PROCEEDINGS OF THE INSTITUTE OF RADIO ENGINEERS (IRE) included a paper by Frederick B. Llewellyn concerning the theory of vacuum tubes at ultrahigh frequencies. At the time he was employed as a research engineer at the Bell Telephone …

by Blaine McCormick and Paul Israel
Thomas Edison is remembered more as an inventive genius than as a businessman. Some may know he was granted more patents by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office than any other person, 1,093 patents to be exact. Fewer know …

Sixty years ago this month, the PROCEEDINGS OF THE INSTITUTE OF RADIO ENGINEERS (IRE) included a paper on the theory of radio frequency transformers by Harry Diamond and E.Z. Stowell. Diamond, for whom the Harry Diamond Memorial Award of the IEEE is named, was employed …

By Frederik Nebeker
As 2004 draws toward a close, we celebrate the birthdays of two pioneers of electromechanical calculating: John Henry Patterson, who made the cash register a ubiquitous device, and William Burroughs, who invented the recording adding machine.