Timeline of electrical and electronic engineering

By Farrells2001

  • Alfred Kastler

    French physicist Alfred Kastler invented MASER

  • Nuclear power

    First nuclear power plant in the US

  • Kay

    Digital voltmeter

  • transistorized computer

    First fully transistorized computer in the US

  • Chapin, Fuller, and Pearson

    Solar battery

  • UK and U.S

    Transatlantic telephone cable

  • Magellan Navigation Inc.

    First commercial handheld GPS receiver (Magellan NAV 1000)

  • Jack Kilby

    American engineer Jack Kilby invented the integrated circuit (IC)

  • Theodore Harold Maiman

    American engineer Theodore Harold Maiman invented the LASER

  • Vogel and Cie, patented by Alexander Bain, Scottish clockmaker in 1840.

    Electronic clock

  • Nick Holonyak Jr.

    Nick Holonyak Jr. invented the LED

  • Videocassette recorder

    First home Videocassette recorder (VCR)

  • Electronic calculator

    Electronic calculator

  • Intel

    486 microprocessor (33 MHz)

  • Richard Stanley Williams

    American scientist Richard Stanley Williams invented memristor which was proposed by Leon O. Chua in 1971