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The History of Electrical Engineering: Crash Course Engineering #4

Next stop on our tour of engineering’s major fields: electrical engineering. In this episode we’ll explore the history of telecommunications, electric power and lighting, and computers. We’ll introduce topics like magnetism, electrical conduction, telegraphy, lighting, and computers.

Crash Course Engineering is produced in association with PBS Digital Studios: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1mtdjDVOoOqJzeaJAV15Tq0tZ1vKj7ZV

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RESOURCES:
https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Gilbert
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/gilbert_william.shtml
http://www.sparkmuseum.com/BOOK_GRAY.HTM
http://people.seas.harvard.edu/~jones/es154/lectures/lecture_2/lecture_2.html
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Claude-Chappe
http://people.seas.harvard.edu/~jones/cscie129/papers/Early_History_of_Data_Networks/Chapter_2.pdf
https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Fothergill-Cooke
http://ethw.org/William_Fothergill_Cooke
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/connecting-britain/first-electric-telegraph/
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-transatlantic-telegraph-cable-completed
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Samuel-F-B-Morse
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alexander-Graham-Bell
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Heinrich-Hertz
https://www.livescience.com/45641-science-of-world-war-i-communications.html
https://definitions.uslegal.com/r/radio-act-of-1912/
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sir-Humphry-Davy-Baronet
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Zenobe-Theophile-Gramme
http://www.history.com/topics/inventions/thomas-edison
http://www.history.com/news/ask-history/what-was-the-war-of-the-currents
http://www.computerhistory.org/fellowawards/hall/marcian-hoff/
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https://www.wired.com/2009/12/1223shockley-bardeen-brattain-transistor/
https://www.history.com/topics/inventions/invention-of-the-pc

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