A Brief History of Electrical Engineering
1800
Italian physicist Alessandro Volta invented battery
1820
Danish physicist Hans Christian Ørsted accidentally discovered that the change in electric field creates magnetic field
1825
English physicist William Sturgeon developed the first electromagnet
1831
English physicist Michael Faraday published the law of induction (Joseph Henry developed the same law independently)
1831
American scientist Joseph Henry in United States developed a prototype DC motor
1832
French instrument maker Hippolyte Pixii in France developed a prototype DC generator
1844
American inventor Samuel Morse developed telegraph and the Morse code
1850
Belgian engineer Floris Nollet invented (and patented) a practical AC generator
1876
Russian engineer Pavel Yablochkov invented electric carbon arc lamp
1876
Scottish inventor Alexander Graham Bell invented telephone
1877
First street lighting in Paris, France
1878
First hydroelectric plant in Cragside, England
1878
English engineer Joseph Swan invented Incandescent light bulb
1879
Thomas Alva Edison introduced a long lasting filament for the incandescent lamp.
1890
Thomas Alva Edison invented fuse
1900
Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi succeeded in the first radio broadcast
1901
First transatlantic radio broadcast by Guglielmo Marconi
1919
Edwin Howard Armstrong developed standard AM radio receiver
1928
First experimental Television broadcast in the US.
1929
First public TV broadcast in Germany
1939
Edwin Howard Armstrong developed FM radio receiver
1951
First nuclear power plant plant in the US
1953
First fully transistorized computer in the US
1960
Theodore Harold Maiman invented the Laser
1962
Nick Holonyak Jr. invented the LED
2008
American scientist Richard Stanley Williams invented memristor which was proposed by Leon Chua in 1971
Italian physicist Alessandro Volta invented battery
1820
Danish physicist Hans Christian Ørsted accidentally discovered that the change in electric field creates magnetic field
1825
English physicist William Sturgeon developed the first electromagnet
1831
English physicist Michael Faraday published the law of induction (Joseph Henry developed the same law independently)
1831
American scientist Joseph Henry in United States developed a prototype DC motor
1832
French instrument maker Hippolyte Pixii in France developed a prototype DC generator
1844
American inventor Samuel Morse developed telegraph and the Morse code
1850
Belgian engineer Floris Nollet invented (and patented) a practical AC generator
1876
Russian engineer Pavel Yablochkov invented electric carbon arc lamp
1876
Scottish inventor Alexander Graham Bell invented telephone
1877
First street lighting in Paris, France
1878
First hydroelectric plant in Cragside, England
1878
English engineer Joseph Swan invented Incandescent light bulb
1879
Thomas Alva Edison introduced a long lasting filament for the incandescent lamp.
1890
Thomas Alva Edison invented fuse
1900
Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi succeeded in the first radio broadcast
1901
First transatlantic radio broadcast by Guglielmo Marconi
1919
Edwin Howard Armstrong developed standard AM radio receiver
1928
First experimental Television broadcast in the US.
1929
First public TV broadcast in Germany
1939
Edwin Howard Armstrong developed FM radio receiver
1951
First nuclear power plant plant in the US
1953
First fully transistorized computer in the US
1960
Theodore Harold Maiman invented the Laser
1962
Nick Holonyak Jr. invented the LED
2008
American scientist Richard Stanley Williams invented memristor which was proposed by Leon Chua in 1971