How to Choose an Oscilloscope
Professionals in fields as wide ranging as electrical engineering, automotive repair and physics depend on high-quality oscilloscopes to get their jobs done right. Whatever your need for an oscilloscope, the important thing is to know how to ... [... more]
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The air conditioner
One year after earning a master's degree in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University in 1901, Willis Haviland Carrier (born 1876) developed and patented the world's first modern air conditioner. Carrier's invention not only provided comfort ... [... more]
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Velcro®
It may be difficult to imagine a world without Velcro®, but the fastening mechanism did not exist before George de Mestral created it in 1955. Born in Switzerland on June 19, 1907, de Mestral earned an electrical engineering degree from the Ecole ... [... more]
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Inventor of the Week: Archive: Howard Aiken
Electrical engineer, physicist, and computing pioneer Howard Hathaway Aiken was born in 1900 in Hoboken, New Jersey. He spent most of his childhood in Indianapolis, Indiana and obtained a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the ... [... more]
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Optical Information Processing Technology
Dr. Cardinal Warde, a professor of electrical engineering at MIT, is considered one of the world's leading experts on materials, devices and systems for optical information processing. Warde holds ten key patents on spatial light modulators, ... [... more]
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How to Six Ways to A Smoother-Sounding Car Audio
Here are eight ways how to have interference- and noise-free car audio. Don't introduce ground loops. In electrical engineering and electronics, a ground loop means an unexpected electrical current that flows in a conductor connecting two points ... [... more]
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Schaum's Outline of Basic Electrical Engineering
 Needs proofread, BADLY!: I'm presently using this as a textbook in an into-level EE class. The book is a great concept - give a book of problems and enough information on the theory to solve them, including some step-by-step examples. And, sometimes, it [... more]
$17.95
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Building Your Electromagnet
This electrical engineering science fair project describes how to build a simple electric motor (Beakman motor) and determines which number of coil windings produces the fastest rate of motor spin. To learn how to build a simple electric motor ... [... more]
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Microchip Fabrication: A Practical Guide to ...
updated undergraduate text: (A review of the 5th edition.) Zant gives an update of his long running book on chip making. It is useful as a quick overview of the salient steps used by many fabs. The text starts with a precis of the industry's history, and, [... more]
$65.00
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Tab Electronics Guide to Understanding Electricity and ...
Excellent for beginners, but incorrect convention used: I would highly recommed this book to anybody interested in electronics as a solid starting guide. A vast amount of material is covered and is covered on a basic level. That being said, I do have to [... more]
$24.95
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Introduction to Mechatronics & Measurement Systems
Great Introductory Book: This book is perfect for a mechanical engineer with very little background or experience with electronics. The chapter on microcontroller programming and interfacing is also a good introduction, and it presents all of the [... more]
$125.00
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Schaum's Outline of Basic Circuit Analysis
Excellent supplement on the topic of circuit analysis: This is an excellent supplement for electrical technology and electrical engineering students taking a first course on circuit analysis. It is a particularly good companion to Boylestad's " [... more]
$16.95
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