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IEEE Power & Energy Society President Dies at 69

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Williams was granted 27 U.S. Ferreira authored or coauthored 130 journal and transactions articles and more than 400 conference papers. He was granted 15 patents. from the University of Pennsylvania , in Philadelphia, in 1959. He managed several magnetic recording projects during his career.

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The Electric Purple Snake-Oil Machine

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After more years of tinkering, Tesla perfected his resonance transformer and was granted U.S. Historical Medical Library/College of Physicians of Philadelphia. An abridged version of this article appears in the October 2022 print issue. 1,119,732 for an “Apparatus for Transmitting Electrical Energy” on 1 December 1914.

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This Clock Made Power Grids Possible

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The 60-hertz standard (or 50 hertz in most of the rest of the world) is taken for granted today, but in the early days of electrification—before the invention of the master station clock—the standard was seldom standard. An abridged version of this article appears in the March 2024 print issue as “The Clock and the Grid.”

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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This article was first published as “Inside the PARC: the ‘information architects’.” Much serious work got done electronically as well: reports, articles, sometimes entire design projects were done through the network. Legend has it that McColough then turned to Jack E. It appeared in the October 1985 issue of IEEE Spectrum.

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When New York City Was a Wiretapper’s Dream

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In the course of the ensuing criminal trial, Shannon, Asmann, and Ruh were all granted immunity in exchange for testifying against Broady, who emerged as the brains behind the operation. Newsweek reported in an article on “The Busy Wiretappers” in the spring of 1955. Ruh, two rogue employees of the New York Telephone Company.