Resources
- Engineering and Technology History Wiki: The world’s premier website for IEEE’s history. Here you will find an encyclopedia documenting not only the history of technologies and the people involved, but IEEE itself and its various organizational units. Expanding your organizational unit’s page on the ETHW is a great way to contribute to IEEE History
- IEEE Reach: IEEE REACH provides teachers and students with educational resources that explore the relationship between technology and engineering history and the complex relationships they have with society, politics, economics, and culture.
- IEEE History Center: Learn more about the IEEE History Center and it’s activities
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IEEE History Center timeline
Electric corset advertisement, 1883
Telharmonium tonewheel, c. 1900s
L0003568 Boston Electric Belt.
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Engraving and text: advertisement for the 'Boston Electric Belt'.
Nostrums and quackery
American Medical Association
Published: 1912
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Aircraft electronics technician, c. 1940s
Initial AIEE Wheatstone bridge logo
IRE right hand rule logo
Ohio Brass High Voltage Laboratory, c. 1920s
1884 International Electrical Exhibition poster
L'éclairage électrique advertisement, 1917
Mark Twain in Nikola Tesla's laboratory, Spring 1894
Guglielmo Marconi and George Kemp, 1901
Kitty Joyner at NACA Langley, 1952
Ada Lovelace, English writer and mathematician (1815-1852) daughter of Lord Byron and friend of Charles Babbage.
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Lord Kelvin with Charles Steinmetz and others at General Electric, September 24, 1897
L-R: Patsy Simmers with ENIAC board, Gail Taylor, with EDVAC board, Milly Beck, with ORDVAC board, Norma Stec with BRLESC-I board. 1962
High voltage apparatus
Eta Kappa Nu Awards banquet, Jan. 28, 1938
Woman speaking into wall mounted telephone, 1905
Wireless Station 9AYI, 1923
Clara Horton tuned in on a concert with her receiver, 1925
Thomas Edison in electric car, 1916
AIEE Kite logo, adopted 1897
Lee De Forest, c. 1920s
Woman with headphones listening to radio, c. 1920s