Timeline of electrical and electronic engineering
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Below is the timeline of electric and electronic engineering.,
| Year | Event |
|---|---|
| 1783 | French physicist Charles-Augustin de Coulomb Charles-Augustin de Coulomb Charles-Augustin de Coulomb was a French physicist. He is best known for developing Coulomb's law, the definition of the electrostatic force of attraction and repulsion. The [SI unit] of charge, the coulomb, was named after him.... formulated Columb's law |
| 1800 | Italian physicist Alessandro Volta Alessandro Volta Count Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Gerolamo Umberto Volta was a Lombard physicist known especially for the invention of the battery in 1800.-Early life and works:... invented battery |
| 1820 | Danish physicist Hans Christian Ørsted Hans Christian Ørsted Hans Christian Ørsted was a Danish physicist and chemist who discovered that electric currents create magnetic fields, an important aspect of electromagnetism... accidentally discovered that the change in electric field creates magnetic field |
| 1820 | One week after Ørsted's discovery, French physicist André-Marie Ampère André-Marie Ampère André-Marie Ampère was a French physicist and mathematician who is generally regarded as one of the main discoverers of electromagnetism. The SI unit of measurement of electric current, the ampere, is named after him.... published his law. He also proposed right hand screw rule |
| 1825 | English physicist William Sturgeon William Sturgeon William Sturgeon was an English physicist and inventor who made the first electromagnets, and invented the first practical English electric motor.-Early Life :... developed the first electromagnet Electromagnet An electromagnet is a type of magnet in which the magnetic field is produced by the flow of electric current. The magnetic field disappears when the current is turned off... |
| 1827 | German physicist Georg Ohm Georg Ohm Georg Simon Ohm was a German physicist. As a high school teacher, Ohm began his research with the recently-invented electrochemical cell, invented by Italian Count Alessandro Volta. Using equipment of his own creation, Ohm determined that there is a direct proportionality between the potential... introduced the concept of electrical Resistance Electrical resistance The electrical resistance of an electrical element is the opposition to the passage of an electric current through that element; the inverse quantity is electrical conductance, the ease at which an electric current passes. Electrical resistance shares some conceptual parallels with the mechanical... |
| 1831 | English physicist Michael Faraday Michael Faraday Michael Faraday, FRS was an English chemist and physicist who contributed to the fields of electromagnetism and electrochemistry.... published the law of induction Faraday's law of induction Faraday's law of induction dates from the 1830s, and is a basic law of electromagnetism relating to the operating principles of transformers, inductors, and many types of electrical motors and generators... (Joseph Henry developed the same law independently) |
| 1831 | American scientist Joseph Henry Joseph Henry Joseph Henry was an American scientist who served as the first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, as well as a founding member of the National Institute for the Promotion of Science, a precursor of the Smithsonian Institution. During his lifetime, he was highly regarded... in United States developed a protype DC motor DC motor A DC motor is an electric motor that runs on direct current electricity.-Brush:The brushed DC electric motor generates torque directly from DC power supplied to the motor by using internal commutation, stationary magnets , and rotating electrical magnets.Like all electric motors or generators,... |
| 1832 | Frech instrument maker Hippolyte Pixii Hippolyte Pixii Hippolyte Pixii was an instrument maker from Paris, France. In 1832 he built an early form of alternating current electrical generator, based on the principle of magnetic induction discovered by Michael Faraday. Pixii's device was a spinning magnet, operated by a hand crank, where the North and... in France developed a protype DC generator |
| 1836 | Irish priest (and later scientist) Nicholas Callan Nicholas Callan Father Nicholas Joseph Callan was an Irish priest and scientist from Darver, Co. Louth, Ireland. He was Professor of Natural Philosophy in Maynooth College near Dublin from 1834, and is best known for his work on the induction coil.... invented transformer Transformer A transformer is a device that transfers electrical energy from one circuit to another through inductively coupled conductors—the transformer's coils. A varying current in the first or primary winding creates a varying magnetic flux in the transformer's core and thus a varying magnetic field... in Ireland |
| 1844 | American inventor Samuel Morse developed telegraphy and the Morse code |
| 1850 | Belgian engineer Floris Nollet Floris Nollet Floris Nollet was a Belgian physicist, engineer, inventor.Nollet was a grandnephew of Jean-Antoine Nollet. He became professor of physics at the École Militaire in Brussels... invented (and patented) a practical AC generator |
| 1856 | Belgian engineer Charles Bourseul Charles Bourseul Charles Bourseul was a pioneer in development of the "make and break" telephone about 20 years before Bell made a practical telephone.... proposed telephony Telephony In telecommunications, telephony encompasses the general use of equipment to provide communication over distances, specifically by connecting telephones to each other.... |
| 1856 | First electrically powered light house in England |
| 1873 | Belgian engineer Zenobe Gramme Zénobe Gramme Zénobe Théophile Gramme was a Belgian electrical engineer. He invented the Gramme machine, a type of direct current dynamo capable of generating smoother and much higher voltages than the dynamos known to that point.In 1873 he and Hippolyte Fontaine accidentally discovered that the device was... who developed DC generator accidentally discovered that a DC generator also works as a DC motor during an exhibit in Vienna. |
| 1876 | Russian engineer Pavel Yablochkov Pavel Yablochkov Pavel Nikolayevich Yablochkov was a Russian electrical engineer, the inventor of the Yablochkov candle and businessman.-Biography:... invented electric carbon arc lamp Arc lamp "Arc lamp" or "arc light" is the general term for a class of lamps that produce light by an electric arc . The lamp consists of two electrodes, first made from carbon but typically made today of tungsten, which are separated by a gas... |
| 1876 | Scottish inventor Alexander Graham Bell Alexander Graham Bell Alexander Graham Bell was an eminent scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator who is credited with inventing the first practical telephone.... invented telephone |
| 1877 | First street lighting in Paris France |
| 1877 | American inventor Thomas Alva Edison invented phonograph Phonograph The phonograph record player, or gramophone is a device introduced in 1877 that has had continued common use for reproducing sound recordings, although when first developed, the phonograph was used to both record and reproduce sounds... |
| 1878 | First hydroelectric plant in Cragside, England |
| 1878 | English engineer Joseph Swan Joseph Swan Sir Joseph Wilson Swan was a British physicist and chemist, most famous for the invention of the incandescent light bulb for which he received the first patent in 1878... invented Incandescent light bulb Incandescent light bulb The incandescent light bulb, incandescent lamp or incandescent light globe makes light by heating a metal filament wire to a high temperature until it glows. The hot filament is protected from air by a glass bulb that is filled with inert gas or evacuated. In a halogen lamp, a chemical process... |
| 1879 | Thomas Alva Edison introduced a long lasting filament for the indascent lamb. |
| 1882 | First thermal power stations in London and New York |
| 1888 | German physicist Heinrich Hertz proved the that electro magnetic waves travel over some distance. (First indication of radio communication) |
| 1888 | Croatian American engineer Nicola Tesla invented AC motor |
| 1890 | Thomas Alva Edison invented fuse Fuse (electrical) In electronics and electrical engineering, a fuse is a type of low resistance resistor that acts as a sacrificial device to provide overcurrent protection, of either the load or source circuit... |
| 1894 | Russian physicist Alexander Stepanovich Popov Alexander Stepanovich Popov Alexander Stepanovich Popov was a Russian physicist who was the first person to demonstrate the practical application of electromagnetic waves.... developed a prototype of a radio receiver |
| 1896 | First successful intercontinental telegram |
| 1897 | German inventor Karl Ferdinand Braun Karl Ferdinand Braun Karl Ferdinand Braun was a German inventor, physicist and Nobel laureate in physics. Braun contributed significantly to the development of the radio and television technology: he shared with Guglielmo Marconi the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics.-Biography:Braun was born in Fulda, Germany, and... invented cathode ray oscilloscope Oscilloscope An oscilloscope is a type of electronic test instrument that allows observation of constantly varying signal voltages, usually as a two-dimensional graph of one or more electrical potential differences using the vertical or 'Y' axis, plotted as a function of time,... (CRO) |
| 1900 | Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi Guglielmo Marconi Guglielmo Marconi was an Italian inventor, known as the father of long distance radio transmission and for his development of Marconi's law and a radio telegraph system. Marconi is often credited as the inventor of radio, and indeed he shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Karl Ferdinand... succeeded in first radio broadcast |
| 1901 | First transatlantic radio broadcast by Guglielmo Marconi |
| 1904 | English engineer John Ambrose Fleming John Ambrose Fleming Sir John Ambrose Fleming was an English electrical engineer and physicist. He is known for inventing the first thermionic valve or vacuum tube, the diode, then called the kenotron in 1904. He is also famous for the left hand rule... invented diode Diode In electronics, a diode is a type of two-terminal electronic component with a nonlinear current–voltage characteristic. A semiconductor diode, the most common type today, is a crystalline piece of semiconductor material connected to two electrical terminals... |
| 1906 | American inventor Lee de Forest Lee De Forest Lee De Forest was an American inventor with over 180 patents to his credit. De Forest invented the Audion, a vacuum tube that takes relatively weak electrical signals and amplifies them. De Forest is one of the fathers of the "electronic age", as the Audion helped to usher in the widespread use... invented triode Triode A triode is an electronic amplification device having three active electrodes. The term most commonly applies to a vacuum tube with three elements: the filament or cathode, the grid, and the plate or anode. The triode vacuum tube was the first electronic amplification device... |
| 1912 | American engineer Edwin Howard Armstrong developed Electronic oscillator Electronic oscillator An electronic oscillator is an electronic circuit that produces a repetitive electronic signal, often a sine wave or a square wave. They are widely used in innumerable electronic devices... . |
| 1919 | Edwin Howard Armstrong developed standard AM Superheterodyne receiver In electronics, a superheterodyne receiver uses frequency mixing or heterodyning to convert a received signal to a fixed intermediate frequency, which can be more conveniently processed than the original radio carrier frequency... radio receiver |
| 1928 | First experimental Television broadcast in the US. |
| 1929 | First public TV broadcast in Germany |
| 1931 | First wind energy Wind energy Wind energy is the kinetic energy of air in motion; see also wind power.Total wind energy flowing through an imaginary area A during the time t is:E = ½ m v2 = ½ v 2... plant in the Soviet Union |
| 1938 | Russian American engineer Vladimir K. Zworykin developed Iconoscope Iconoscope The Iconoscope was the name given to an early television camera tube in which a beam of high-velocity electrons scans a mosaic of photoemissive isolated granules... |
| 1939 | Edwin Howard Armstrong developed FM radio receiver |
| 1939 | Russell and Sigurd Varian Varian Associates Varian Associates was one of the first high-tech companies in Silicon Valley. It was founded in 1948 by Russell H. and Sigurd F. Varian, William Webster Hansen, and Edward Ginzton to sell the klystron, the first tube which could generate electromagnetic waves at microwave frequencies, and other... developed the first Klystron Klystron A klystron is a specialized linear-beam vacuum tube . Klystrons are used as amplifiers at microwave and radio frequencies to produce both low-power reference signals for superheterodyne radar receivers and to produce high-power carrier waves for communications and the driving force for modern... tube in the US. |
| 1941 | German engineer Konrad Zuse Konrad Zuse Konrad Zuse was a German civil engineer and computer pioneer. His greatest achievement was the world's first functional program-controlled Turing-complete computer, the Z3, which became operational in May 1941.... developed the first programmable computer Computer A computer is a programmable machine designed to sequentially and automatically carry out a sequence of arithmetic or logical operations. The particular sequence of operations can be changed readily, allowing the computer to solve more than one kind of problem... in Berlin |
| 1944 | English engineer John Logie Baird John Logie Baird John Logie Baird FRSE was a Scottish engineer and inventor of the world's first practical, publicly demonstrated television system, and also the world's first fully electronic colour television tube... developed the first color picture tube |
| 1947 | American engineers John Bardeen John Bardeen John Bardeen was an American physicist and electrical engineer, the only person to have won the Nobel Prize in Physics twice: first in 1956 with William Shockley and Walter Brattain for the invention of the transistor; and again in 1972 with Leon Neil Cooper and John Robert Schrieffer for a... and Walter Houser Brattain Walter Houser Brattain Walter Houser Brattain was an American physicist at Bell Labs who, along with John Bardeen and William Shockley, invented the transistor. They shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics for their invention. He devoted much of his life to research on surface states.- Early life and education :He was... together with their group leader William Shockley William Shockley William Bradford Shockley Jr. was an American physicist and inventor. Along with John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain, Shockley co-invented the transistor, for which all three were awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics.Shockley's attempts to commercialize a new transistor design in the 1950s... invented transistor. |
| 1950 | French physicist Alfred Kastler Alfred Kastler Alfred Kastler was a French physicist, and Nobel Prize laureate.Kastler was born in Guebwiller and later attended the Lycée Bartholdi in Colmar, Alsace, and École Normale Supérieure in Paris in 1921... invented MASER Maser A maser is a device that produces coherent electromagnetic waves through amplification by stimulated emission. Historically, “maser” derives from the original, upper-case acronym MASER, which stands for "Microwave Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation"... |
| 1951 | First Nuclear Energy Nuclear energy Nuclear energy usually means the part of the energy of an atomic nucleus, which can be released by fusion or fission or radioactive decay.Nuclear energy also may refer to:*Nuclear binding energy, the energy required to split a nucleus of an atom.... plant in the US |
| 1953 | First fully transistorized computer in the US |
| 1958 | American engineer Jack Kilby Jack Kilby Jack St. Clair Kilby was an American physicist who took part in the invention of the integrated circuit while working at Texas Instruments in 1958. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics in 2000. He is credited with the invention of the integrated circuit or microchip... invented ıntegrated circuit Integrated circuit An integrated circuit or monolithic integrated circuit is an electronic circuit manufactured by the patterned diffusion of trace elements into the surface of a thin substrate of semiconductor material... (IC) |
| 1960 | Theodore Harold Maiman Theodore Harold Maiman Theodore Harold "Ted" Maiman was an American physicist who made the first LASER... invented LASER Laser A laser is a device that emits light through a process of optical amplification based on the stimulated emission of photons. The term "laser" originated as an acronym for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation... |
| 1962 | Nick Holonyak Jr. invented LED LEd LEd is a TeX/LaTeX editing software working under Microsoft Windows. It is a freeware product.... |