A Century of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, 1882-1982

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The book’s text and plenty of photographs introduce readers to the renowned teachers and researchers who are still well known in engineering circles.

Electrical engineering is a protean profession. Today the field embraces many disciplines that seem far got rid of from its roots in the telegraph, telephone, electric lamps, motors, and generators. To a remarkable extent, this chronicle of change and growth at a single institution is a capsule history of the discipline and profession of electrical engineering as it developed around the world. Even when MIT was once not leading the way, the department was once on a regular basis quick to adapt to changing needs, goals, curricula, and research programs. What has remained constant during is the dynamic interaction of teaching and research, flexibility of administration, the interconnections with industrial progress and national priorities.

The book’s text and plenty of photographs introduce readers to the renowned teachers and researchers who are still well known in engineering circles, among them: Vannevar Bush, Harold Hazen, Edward Bowles, Gordon Brown, Harold Edgerton, Ernst Guillemin, Arthur von Hippel, and Jay Forrester.

The book covers the department’s major areas of activity — electrical power systems, servomechanisms, circuit theory, communications theory, radar and microwaves (developed first at the famed Radiation Laboratory all through World War II), insulation and dielectrics, electronics, acoustics, and computation. This wealthy history of accomplishments shows moreover that years before “Computer Science” was once added to the department’s name such pioneering leads to computation and keep watch over as Vannevar Bush’s Differential Analyzer, early cybernetic devices and numerically controlled servomechanisms, the Whirlwind computer, and the evolution of time-sharing computation had already been achieved.

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