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-English scientist, publishes "De Magnete" |
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1747
-Discovers 2 types of electrical charge. -Documents "conservation of charge". |
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| Charles Austin de Coulomb |
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1785
F = k*Q1*Q2/r^2
Discovers inverse square law |
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1780
Discovers electricity from two different metals causes frog legs to twitch. |
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1790
-Invents voltaic pile battery
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1820
-finds that wires carrying current produce forces on each other |
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1820
-Electric current affects compass needle. |
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1820
-Develops idea of electric field.
-Studies effect of currents on magnets. |
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1827
-publishes law stating electric current is proportional to a potential difference |
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1860
-Scottish physicist/mathematician.
-"Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism" |
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| First International Electrical Congress defined electrical units |
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| What was "Westinghousing"? |
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| Execution by means of AC voltage. |
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1893
-Set up first long range power network. |
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| Thomas-Houston Elec. Co. and Edison Gen. Elec. Co. created ___________ in 1895 |
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| First commercial HVDC (high voltage direct current) line was built between? |
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| Schenectady and Mechanicville, NY in 1936 |
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| Ground was broken on the Blenheim-Gilboa Pumped Storage Power Project in 1969. It is one of the nation‟s largest pumped-storage projects and generates electrical power of up to |
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| The first Transcontinental Telegraph was constructed in 1861 by the |
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| Western Union Telegraph Company |
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| The first intelligible voice transmission over an electric wire in 1876 was accomplished by |
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| In 1906 Reginald Fessenden and Lee de Forest invented |
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| amplitude-modulated (AM) radio |
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| In 1919 the first country to have a radio station in a broadcast network was |
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| In 1933, FM radio was patented by inventor |
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| The first radio communications satellite was launched in 1962. Its name was |
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| Color television was demonstrated by Bell Laboratories using three complete systems of photoelectric cells, amplifiers, glow-tubes, and color filters, |
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| Designed for process control and embedded applications in 1980 the US Department of Defense, releases |
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| On July 8, 1969 Intel is founded by |
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| Robert Noyce, Andy Grove, & Gordon Moore |
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| In 1950 he publishes an article in the journal Mind that establishes criteria for artificial intelligence. He is |
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| In 1924 Thomas J. Watson renames CTR to IBM and popularizes the “Think” slogan he coined at |
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| National Cash Register (NCR) |
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| In 1854 “An Investigation of the Laws of Thought”, describing a system for symbolic and logical reasoning that will become the basis for computer design, is published by |
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| In 1963 the Institute of Radio Engineers and the American Institute of Electrical Engineers merge to form |
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| Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) |
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| Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak establish the benchmark for personal computers with the introduction the Apple II in the spring of |
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