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Nikola Tesla

1890s photo of Tesla with a spiral coil used in his wireless power transmission experiments in his East Houston Street laboratory.

Nikola Tesla (Jul. 10, 1856 - Jan. 7, 1943). Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist. Although best known for contributions to the modern alternating current (AC) electrical supply system, Tesla also researched—among other things—wireless power transmission and radio wave propagation (image source: wikipedia.org).

Associations & Directories

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Founded in 1947, the ACM is the world's largest scientific and educational computing society.
Audio Engineering Society (AES)
Founded in 1948. According to its website, the AES is "...the only professional society devoted exclusively to audio technology."
Electrochemical Society (ECS)
The Electrochemical Society (ECS) was founded in 1902 as an international nonprofit, educational organization concerned with a broad range of phenomena relating to electrochemical and solid-state science and technology.
Engineering and Technology History Wiki
A wiki-based site with many resources about the history of IEEE, its members, their professions and electrical and informational technologies and sciences.
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
IEEE is the world's largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for the benefit of humanity
Institution of Engineering and Technology
A multidisciplinary, international professional engineering organization. It was founded in 1871 as the Society of Telegraph Engineers. From 1888 to 2006, it was the Institute of Electrical Engineers (IEE). Headquarters are in the United Kingdom.
International Electrochemical Commission
The IEC is a global, not-for-profit membership organization that brings together more than 170 countries and coordinates the work of 20,000 experts globally
International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE)
SPIE partners with researchers, educators, and industry to advance light-based research and technologies for the betterment of the human condition.

Jack Kilby

Jack St. Clair Kilby, Electrical engineer and the 2000 winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics for the invention of the integrated circuit. (Image source: Wikipedia.org

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Nikola Tesla

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Jack Kilby