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Arthur Scherbius

Arthur Scherbius (20 October 1878 – 13 May 1929) was a German electrical engineer who patented an invention for a mechanical cipher machine, later sold as the Enigma machine.

Camillo Olivetti

Camillo Olivetti (August 1868 in Ivrea, Piedmont, Italy– December 1943 in Biella, Italy) was an Italian electrical engineer and founder of Olivetti & Co., SpA., the Italian manufacturer of computers, printers and other business machines.

Creation Science Movement

The proposal was seconded by barrister and amateur ornithologist Douglas Dewar, and the Evolution Protest Movement was formed at a meeting between them and five like-minded conservative evangelicals with electrical engineer, physicist and Victoria Institute president John Ambrose Fleming as president, Acworth as chairman and Dewar as secretary-treasurer.

Friedrich von Hefner-Alteneck

Friedrich Heinrich Philipp Franz von Hefner-Alteneck (April 27, 1845 in Aschaffenburg – January 6, 1904 in Biesdorf near Berlin) was a German electrical engineer and one of the closest aides of Werner von Siemens.

George FitzGerald

In particular, FitzGerald used some equations that had been derived a short time before by his friend the electrical engineer Oliver Heaviside.

Harris J. Ryan

Harris J. Ryan (January 8, 1866 - July 3, 1934) was an American electrical engineer and a professor first at Cornell University and later at Stanford University.

John B. Whitehead

John Boswell Whitehead (August 18, 1872 in Norfolk, Virginia - November 16, 1954 in Baltimore, Maryland) was an American electrical engineer and a professor at Johns Hopkins University as well as the dean of the School of Engineering.

Paul Furniss

After high school, Furniss worked as an electrical engineer until the advent of the Jazz Studies program at the NSW Conservatorium of Music, when he became involved both as a student and lecturer.

Shahid Khaqan Abbasi

Shahid Khaqan Abbasi (Urdu: شاہد خاقان عباسی) (born 27 December 1958 ) is a Pakistani entrepreneur, electrical engineer, and a politician.

Takashi Hasegawa

Takashi Hasegawa is an electrical engineer and programmer, who works at the Optoelectronic System Laboratory of Hitachi Cable, Ltd.

Thévenin's theorem

The theorem was independently derived in 1853 by the German scientist Hermann von Helmholtz and in 1883 by Léon Charles Thévenin (1857–1926), an electrical engineer with France's national Postes et Télégraphes telecommunications organization.

Thomas Commerford Martin

Thomas Commerford Martin (July 22, 1856–May 17, 1924) was an American electrical engineer and editor, born in London, England.

Tomas Dy-Liacco

Tomas Dy-Liacco (born Nov. 12, 1920 in Naga City, Camarines Sur, Philippines) is a Filipino electrical engineer, researcher, and developer often referred to as the father of modern energy control centers.

William H. Doherty

William H. Doherty (August 21, 1907 – February 15, 2000) was an American electrical engineer noted for his invention of the Doherty amplifier.


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A. Michael Noll

The electrical-engineering honor society Eta Kappa Nu awarded him Honorable Mention as an Outstanding Young Electrical Engineer in 1970.

Adam Lerner

At The Lab at Belmar, Lerner curated solo exhibitions of Liam Gillick and Issac Julien as well as such non-traditional exhibitions as The Astounding Problem of Andrew Novick, featuring the obsessive collections of a former punk rock singer turned electrical engineer.

Andrew Sudduth

Sudduth was also an electrical engineer and in 1988, he was the first to notify the world that a Computer virus was sweeping the fledgling internet.

Asher Peres

According to his autobiography, he was born Aristide Pressman in Beaulieu-sur-Dordogne in France, where his father, a Polish electrical engineer, had found work laying down power lines.

Basil de Ferranti

He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, and was the grandson of the electrical engineer and inventor Sebastian de Ferranti.

Bernard Price Memorial Lecture

The Lecture is named in memory of the eminent electrical engineer Bernard Price.

Charles Bright

Charles Tilston Bright (1832–1888), a British electrical engineer who oversaw the laying of the first transatlantic telegraph cable

Computer keyboard

The teleprinter, in its more contemporary form, was developed from 1903 to 1910 by American mechanical engineer Charles Krum and his son Howard, with early contributions by electrical engineer Frank Pearne.

Doctors for Disaster Preparedness

The award is named for Petr Beckmann, an electrical engineer and libertarian who claimed to have debunked Albert Einstein's theory of relativity.

E. Finley Carter

Emmett Finley Carter (July 1, 1901 - February 18, 1979) was an electrical engineer that worked at several companies; most notably, he was in upper management of Sylvania Electric Products and was the director, and later president, of SRI International from 1956 to 1963.

Elsie Paroubek

Two days later, electrical engineer George T. Scully and other employees of the Lockport power plant near Joliet, thirty-five miles outside of Chicago, saw a body floating in the drainage canal.

Engelbert Arnold

Engelbert Arnold (7 March 1856 – 16 November 1911) was a Swiss-born electrical engineer.

Ferranti Computer Systems

It owes its name to its original founder Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti, an electrical engineer, born in Liverpool in 1864, who, at the age of 13, invented the arc light for street lighting and, when 16, built and patented an electrical generator (the Ferranti dynamo).

Florensky

Pavel Alexandrovich Florensky (1882-1937), Russian Orthodox theologian, philosopher, mathematician and electrical engineer.

Freedom of Information requests to the Climatic Research Unit

In May 2008 David Holland, an electrical engineer from Northampton, made a FOI request for all emails to and from Keith Briffa about the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (AR4); formal review exchanges had already been published.

George Bailey

George Edwin Bailey (1879–1965), British electrical engineer and industrialist

Goldenhorse

The house where they moved to and where Goldenhorse's first album was recorded had an interesting history in that it had been known as the dePalma Institute, the residence and workspace of Bruce De Palma, a controversial electrical engineer and scientist, and brother of the film director Brian De Palma.

Harry Ward

Harry Ward Leonard (1861–1915), U.S. electrical engineer and inventor

Henney Kilowatt

The propulsion system was developed in consultation with Victor Wouk, then an electrical engineer at Caltech.

Hugh Brown

Hugh Auchincloss Brown (1879–1975), electrical engineer best known for advancing a theory of catastrophic pole shift

Jack Little

John N. Little, known as Jack Little, an American electrical engineer

Joe Volk

He is the Great Grandson of electrical engineer and inventor Magnus Volk.

John Butters

Butters was born in Hampshire, England, and trained as an electrical engineer at Hartley College, Southampton.

John G. Inglis

He left Westinghouse to become Electrical Engineer for the Co-operative Transit Company in Wheeling, West Virginia.

John Theodore Merz

His son, Charles Hesterman Merz, was a successful electrical engineer who pioneered the use of high-voltage three-phase AC power distribution in the United Kingdom.

Károly Ereky

Maybe there is a family connection to compatriot Franz Wittmann, prominent electrical engineer and inventor of the Wittmann-oscilloscope.

Klüver

Billy Klüver (1927–2004), American electrical engineer at Bell Telephone Laboratories who founded Experiments in Art and Technology

Knopper

Klaus Knopper (born 1968), a German electrical engineer and free software developer

Krishnamachari Srikkanth

An excellent student, he is an electrical engineer by qualification (B.E.) and graduated from the College of Engineering, Guindy in Chennai, India.

Lapsley

Phil Lapsley (born 1965), electrical engineer, hacker, and entrepreneur

Mahdi Ali

After his playing days, Ali attended the HCT – Dubai Men's College where he graduated as an electrical engineer and later assisted in the design of the Dubai Metro.

Mestral

George de Mestral (1907–1990), Swiss electrical engineer and inventor of the Velcro fabric fastener

National University of Engineering

Pedro Medelius Olcese, an electrical engineer at Kennedy Space Center and a graduate of the University of Florida, recently was presented with NASA's Silver Snoopy Award for service to the Space Shuttle astronauts.

Novxanı

Lotfi Asker Zadeh — American mathematician, electrical engineer, computer scientist, founder of the theory of fuzzy sets and fuzzy logic.

Oskar Heil

Oskar Heil (20 March 1908, in Langwieden/Rhineland-Palatinate – 15 May 1994) was a German electrical engineer and inventor.

P. Dayaratna

In 1961, he gained admission to Brighton Technical College, England where he graduated as an electrical engineer in 1965 and returned home on April 23, 1965.

Pohlig

Stephen Pohlig, electrical engineer currently working at MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Rotating magnetic field

The discovery of the rotating magnetic field is generally attributed to two inventors, the Italian physicist and electrical engineer Galileo Ferraris, and the Austrian/Serbian inventor and electrical engineer Nikola Tesla.

Sarat Chandra Bose

The children included Sisir Kumar Bose, who became a pediatrician and Member of Parliament, and Subrata Bose, who was an electrical engineer and also a Member of Parliament.

Seikichi Toguchi

Toguchi continued his full-time study of karate until the beginning of World War II, when he was drafted into the army as an electrical engineer and stationed in Sumatra, Indonesia.

Stephen Pohlig

Stephen Pohlig is an electrical engineer currently working at MIT Lincoln Laboratory.

The Year of the Fin

They were visiting a Havana hotel designed by the architect Morris Lapidus when Glazer remarked to Albrecht, "You know, I grew up in this kind of hotel. My father worked with Morris Lapidus on the Fontainebleu and Eden Roc as an electrical engineer."

Udaff

Udaff.com started in 2001 as a brainchild of Dmitry Sokolovsky, an electrical engineer from Saint Petersburg, nicknamed "Udav" (Удав, translated as "boa").

Vanderbijlpark

Named after Hendrik van der Bijl, an electrical engineer and industrialist, Vanderbijlpark is home to Vanderbijlpark Steel (previously part of ISCOR (South African Iron and Steel Corporation), now part of the global company ArcelorMittal).

William Corin

William Corin (13 October 1867- 2 March 1929) was an English-born electrical engineer, who undertook some of the early design of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electricity Scheme in Australia.

William Merrill

William Henry Merrill, American electrical engineer and founder of Underwriters Laboratories

Willis Jackson

Willis Jackson, Baron Jackson of Burnley (1904–1970), British technologist and electrical engineer