This book presents to electrical and electronics engineers, technicians, and
students (or anyone interested in the development of technology) an easily
digestible account of the development of their discipline. This history is known to
those specialists, the historians of science and technology, whose job it is to study
the subject in part and in depth, but it is relatively unknown to the majority of the
electrical engineering fraternity. The aim of the book is to bring to them, readably
presented in one book, an account of how their subject developed from its earliest
days as the two primitive sciences of electricity and magnetism to today's vast
engineering applications.
The following are the major topics included: electricity and magnetism to 1820, galvanism and electric batteries; electrodynamics in the 1820s and Ohm's Law; electromagnetism from Oersted to Hertz and beyond, Faraday and Maxwell; electrical communications from telegraph and telephone to telex and satellites; electric arc, incandescent, discharge and fluorescent lighting; electrical power, generators and motors, AC and DC, transport, industrial and domestic use; radio and the birth of electronics, radar and television; theories and discoveries, the electron, modern magnetism, network and communication theories, units; the miniaturization of electronics, the transistor and integrated circuits; computers from World War II to the micro; and comments on the technological revolution.
Details are given of some of the pioneer scientists and engineers and of some of the pioneer companies from the earliest days to the present. An attempt is made to relate the more important engineering aspects to their influence on society.
Dr. Bern Dibner, an American industrialist who is also a well-known bibliophile and writer on the history of science (and the founder of the famous Burndy Museum in Connecticut), has written the Foreword.
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