Alessandro Volta
u 1745-1827
u Battery (1800)
u Associate of Galvani
u “Metallic” vs. “Animal” electricity
Andre Marie Ampere
u 1775-1836
u Electric Current Defined by Magnetic Force
Georg Simon Ohm
u 1787-1854
u Mathematician
u Electrical Resistance
Thomas Alva Edison
u 1847-1931
u Electric Light(1879)
u DC Power Transmission(1880)
u Phonograph(1877)
u Telephone Engineering (1876)
u Stock Ticker(1871)
Induction Motor(1887)
Polyphase Circuits
Nikola Tesla
Alexander Graham Bell
u 1847-1922
u Telephone(1876)
Marchese Guglielmo Marconi
u 1874-1937
u Long-Distance RadioTansmission (1895)
Lee DeForest
u 1873-1961
u Triode (1906)
u First Amplifying Tube
Philo Farnsworth
u 1906-1971
u Television (1927)
Alan Turing
u 1912-1954
u Inventor of Computer
u ``The Enigma’’ decoder
u ``Turing Machines’’
J. Bardeen, W. Brattain, W. Shockley
u Transistor (1947)
u Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, N. J.
Robert Noyce
u Co-Inventor of Integrated Circuit (ca. 1962)
u Co-Founder of Intel
Gordon Moore
u Co-Inventor of Integrated Circuit
u Co-Founder of Intel
u B. S. Chemistry, UC Berkeley, 1950
Andrew Grove
u Born 1936, Budapest
u Ph. D. U. C. Berkeley, Chemical Engineering, 1963
u Semiconductor Device Physics and Fabrication
u Chairman and CEO of Intel
Other Notable Inventions
u Electric Generator (dynamo), Grame (1871,Belguim)
u Multigrid Tube (Langmuir, GE, 1913)
u Transformer (Stanley, 1885)
u Electromagnetism (Oersted, 1819,Denmark)
u Fiber Optics (Kapany, 1955)