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Remembering Former IEEE President Ken Laker

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In addition to sharing his time and talents with IEEE, he was a professor of electrical engineering for 35 years at the University of Pennsylvania , in Philadelphia. Laker was a member of the IEEE Heritage Circle , which recognizes those who make ongoing and generous donations to the IEEE Foundation , the organization’s philanthropic partner.

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Paying Tribute to 1997 IEEE President Charles K. Alexander

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Air Force and Navy , designing manufacturing processes for their various new systems. Alexander also designed a testing system for solid-state filters, which were used in atomic warheads for missiles on aircraft carriers. After graduating, he joined Ohio University in 1971 as an assistant professor of electrical engineering.

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IEEE Power & Energy Society President Dies at 69

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He helped develop the Williams-Comstock formula, a critical design tool for magnetic recording systems. Ferreira authored or coauthored 130 journal and transactions articles and more than 400 conference papers. from the University of Pennsylvania , in Philadelphia, in 1959. Life Fellow, 78; died 28 June.

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Researcher Says Biodiesel from Sewage Sludge Nearly Cost-Competitive with Petroleum Diesel

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Existing technology can produce biodiesel fuel from municipal sewage sludge that is within a few cents a gallon of being competitive with conventional diesel refined from petroleum, according to Dr. David Kargbo, with the US EPA’s Office of Innovation, Environmental Assessment & Innovation Division in Philadelphia, PA. per gallon.

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The Electric Purple Snake-Oil Machine

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Jacques-Arsène d’Arsonval modified Tesla’s design to make the device safer for human use. Historical Medical Library/College of Physicians of Philadelphia. An abridged version of this article appears in the October 2022 print issue. Tesla himself never commercialized a medical device based around his coil, but others did.

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The Computers Who Brought ENIAC to Life

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ENIAC's hardware was designed by John Mauchly and J. The Army relocated the project from rural Maryland to Philadelphia and went looking for women math majors in Philadelphia, which has a very high density of schools with co-ed universities and colleges and all-women. And male mathematicians were running short.

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This Clock Made Power Grids Possible

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His initial designs, as described in a series of patents , were for a pendulum clock with a permanent magnet as its bob (that’s the weight at the bottom of the pendulum). There, Warren designed, built, and installed the instrument he dubbed the Warren Master Station Clock. In 1912, Warren established the Warren Clock Co.,