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May 13, 1884: Electrical Engineers Meet Up, Light Up

1884: Barely five years after the first successful test of the incandescent light bulb, a group of individuals interested in the fast-emerging field of electricity meets in New York to start a new...

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Nov. 16, 1904: Vacuum Tube Heralds Birth of Modern Electronics

Like many other patented inventions of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the exact origins of the vacuum tube are a bit murky. But John Ambrose Fleming usually gets the credit, and the advance is...

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Nov. 7, 1905: Remote Control Wows Public

1905: Spanish engineer Leonardo Torres-Quevedo uses a radio remote controller to operate a boat more than a mile away in the Bilbao estuary. The crowd is amazed. Guglielmo Marconi’s famous wireless...

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