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Electrical Engineering
 Websites presented in alphabetical order IEEE History Center 
 "The IEEE History Center is determined to preserve as source material for the future historians of technology the personal memories of pioneering electrical and computer engineers, the technologists who transformed the world in the 20th century. ... Most of the Center's resources are available on-line at this site." Includes articles, hundreds of oral histories, a bibliography, FAQs, and more. From the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). http://www.ieee.org/web/aboutus/history_center/ Topics: Electrical Energy, Nonfiction by Genre, Science, Technology Last updated Nov 11, 2006 Leonard Kleinrock's Home Page
UCLA professor "Dr. Leonard Kleinrock created the basic principles of packet switching, the technology underpinning the Internet, while a graduate student at MIT." His official site features links to information about how the Internet was born, including his supervision of "the first message transmission on the Arpanet in October, 1969; this was the first murmurings of what later exploded into the Internet." Also includes biographical information and a bibliography. http://www.lk.cs.ucla.edu Topics: Electrical Energy, Internet, Notable People, Science, Technology Last updated Oct 2, 2004 Tesla: Master of Lightning
PBS presents the life, times, and legacy of Nikola Tesla, scientist, inventor, and visionary. Attributed to his genius were the inventions of radio, alternating current (AC), electricity, neon, remote control, hydroelectric power, wireless electricity, death ray, particle beam weapons, and the Tesla coils (high frequency electricity). The program recounts Tesla's intense rivalries with contemporaries Thomas Edison and Guglielmo Marconi. http://www.pbs.org/tesla/ Topics: Electrical Energy, Energy, Notable People, Science, Technology Last updated Oct 2, 2004 |
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