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 at the National Bureau of Standards in 1928. Stowell recently had joined the Federal Telegraph Company in Palo Alto, CA, after working at the Bureau of Standards. from 1924 to 1927. (more…)

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. (more…)