Using unprecedented access to Edison family papers and years of research at the Edison corporate archives, Neil Baldwin offers a revealing portrait of one of America's seminal inventors: a man whose imagination, dynamism, entrepreneurial ...

This is a biography of Westinghouse, genius inventor from railroad and gas distribution equipment to the corporate model of invention and research.

In 1919, Nikola Tesla wrote several articles for the magazine The Electrical Experimenter.

This book is a seque1 to Reliability Evaluation of Engineering Systems: Concepts and Techniques, written by the same authors and published by Pitman Books in January 1983. * As a sequel, this book is intended to be considered and read as ...

This book traces the history of liquid crystal display (LCD)development from simple laboratory samples to the flat, thin LCDs thathave become an important part of everyday life, appearing intelevision screens, computers, cellular phones, as ...

Included are the Nobel laureate's views on the future of science, science's role in society, his role in the Los Alamos project, and his minority report on the Challenger explosion.

Use this technology guide to find descriptions of today’s most essential global technologies.

The publication of Electrical Papers in 1892 established Heaviside (1850-1925) as an authority on electromagnetic theory, telegraphy and telephony.

Fundamentals of Codes, Graphs, and Iterative Decoding is an explanation of how to introduce local connectivity, and how to exploit simple structural descriptions.

The Truth About Tesla is one of the first books to set the record straight, tracing the origin of Tesla's "genius" to scientists and ideas that far predated him.