Niagara / Chicago / Buffalo / Philadelphia / Columbus / New York / /
Company
Westinghouse Company / Fujitsu / Lockheed Martin / Hewlett-Packard / Los Alamos National Laboratory / NEC / Andersen Consulting / VLSI Technology / Ericsson / Novell / Nortel / Andrew Corporation / Intermedic / Texas Instruments / Digital Equipment / Florida Power / Spectrx / Advanced Micro Devices / Lucent Technologies / Dell / Bell Canada / National Semiconductors / Sharp / British Telecom / Sun Microsystems / Johnson and Johnson / Oracle / Nokia / Pacific Gas and Electric / Sprint / Chrysler / General Electric Corporate Research and Development / CP Clare / Cisco / Honda / Comcast / Western Digital / Bell Laboratories / Compaq / United Technologies / Western Union Telegraph Company / Lockheed Martin IMS / International Rectifier / Microsoft / TRW / Public Service Enterprise Group / Schlumberger / Semiconductor Research Corp. / Texas Utilities / Delco Electronics / Southern Co. / Bellcore / GTE / Unicom Corp. / Motorola / NTT / MCI / Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory / Accuson / Zenith / Reliance Electric / Gentronics / Light / Northrop Grumman / Deutsche Telekom / Audiovox / Southern California Edison / Energy Group / Rockwell Automation/Allen-Bradley / Allied Signal / Worldcom / France Telecom / Krug Life Sciences / Siemens / Electronics Engineers Recently / Mitsubishi / IBM / Fiat / Jet Propulsion Laboratories / Newbridge / AT&T / AMP / Jet Propulsion Labs / General Motors / Telefonica / TCI / Entergy Group / Raytheon / U.S. Robotics / Southwest Laboratories / Hitachi / Anderson Consulting / American Electric Power / Sundstrand Aerospace / Oak Ridge National Laboratory / Sandia National Laboratories / Harris / Rockwell International / Xerox / Ford / Boeing / MCIWorldcom / Intel / AOL / AT&T / Teradyne / /
Continent
America / /
Country
United States / /
Facility
Niagara Falls Power Station / Institute of Electrical / /
IndustryTerm
backbone network equipment / software engineering / superconductive equipment / transportation/automotive / software designers / Internet services / telecommunications industry / software reuse / peripheral devices / companies manufacturing devices / computer chips / telephone apparatus / microwave communications equipment / biotechnology hardware / mundane products / power technology areas / energy / communications carriers / local and long-distance services / electrical/electronic devices / financial services / wholesale/retail trade / aerospace industry / telecommunications / electronic and photonic devices / voice and data / compression algorithms / database management / terminal equipment / aerospace / large utilities / end-use applications / consumer electronics / computer operating systems / aerospace engineering shifts / communications possibilities / communications equipment / communications industry / wireless networks / electricity / high-tech direction / printing / launch systems / electronics / direct current technology / service conglomerate / sound hardware / security devices / Internet access / manufacturing research / transportation / distance services / data communications / software tools / auxiliary devices / communications service providers / recreational products / data networking / power electronics / power technology / finance / data processing / real-time transfer / low-earth-orbit satellite systems / information technology / avionics systems / sales management / similar applications / materials processing / electronic mail equipment / manufacturing / computing / navigation systems / control algorithms / data concentration equipment / mouse devices / software engineers / speech input systems / end product / tech services / start-up / renewable energy / signal processing / project management / data transmission equipment / electrical technology / electrochemical manufacturers / communications protocols / electrical energy / product management / banking / Educational applications / important electrical technology / peripheral services / /
MusicGroup
Public Service / /
NaturalFeature
Niagara Falls / Lake Michigan / /
Organization
U.S. Department of Energy / Air Force / Federal Aviation Administration / Institute of Electrical / National Science Foundation / Department of Transportation / Education and Research Government / AIEE / RUTGERS UNIVERSITY / U.S. government / Consumer Electronics Manufacturers Association / Congress / U.S. Census Bureau / National Aeronautics and Space Administration / Department of Defense / /
Person
Norvin Green / Mercedes Benz / Thomas Edison / Herman Hollerith / Charles Babbage / /
Position
district messenger / technical advisors for marketing departments / first president / head / engineer / recruiter / modern electrical engineer / one of the founders / computer engineer / /
ProvinceOrState
New York / Michigan / Mississippi / /
Region
Southern California / /
Technology
computer-based training / semiconductors / how important electrical technology / power technology / technology of Edison / biotechnology / GPS / microwave / video conferencing / rapidly changing technology / simulation / communications protocols / information technology / biomaterials / computer chips / control algorithms / client/server system / CAD/CAM / compression algorithms / operating systems / 19th-century technology / integrated circuit / /
HISTORICAL OVERVIEW PREPARED BY THE IEEE HISTORY CENTER RUTGERS UNIVERSITY ELECTRICITY IN THE 1880s The organization of the electrical engineering profession in America in the1880s was no coincidence. It was in that deca