Timeline of electrical and electronic engineering
Below is the time limeline of electric and electronic engineering.[1], [2]
| Year | Event |
|---|---|
| 1800 | Alessandro Volta invented battery |
| 1820 | Danish Physicist Hans Christian Ørsted accidentally discovered that the change in electric field creates magnetic field |
| 1820 | One week after After Ørsted's discovery, French physicist André-Marie Ampère published his law. He also proposed right hand screw rıule |
| 1825 | English phyisicist William Sturgeon developed the first electromagnet |
| 1827 | German physicist Georg Ohm introduced the concept of electrical Resistance |
| 1831 | English pyhsicist Michael Faraday published the law of induction (Joseph Henry developed the same law independently) |
| 1831 | American scientist Joseph Henry in United States developed a protype DC motor |
| 1832 | Frech instrument maker Hippolyte Pixii in France developed a protype DC generator |
| 1836 | Irish priest (and later scientist) Nicholas Callan invented transformer in Ireland |
| 1844 | American inventor Samuel Morse developed telegraphy and the Morse code |
| 1850 | Belgian engineer Floris Nollet invented (and patented) a practical AC generator |
| 1856 | Belgian engineer Charles Bourseul proposed telephony |
| 1856 | First electrically powered light house in England |
| 1873 | Belgian engineer Zenobe Gramme who developed DC generator accidentally discovered that a DC generator is also works as a DC motor during an exhibit in Vienna. |
| 1876 | Russian engineer Pavel Yablochkov invented electric carbon arc lamb |
| 1876 | Scottish inventor Alexander Graham Bell invented telephone |
| 1877 | First street lighting in Paris France |
| 1877 | American inventor Thomas Alva Edison invented phonograph |
| 1878 | First hydroelectric plant in Cragside, England |
| 1878 | English engineer Joseph Swan invented Incandescent light bulb |
| 1879 | Thomas Alva Edison introduced a long lasting filament for the indascent lamb. |
| 1882 | First thermal power stations in London and New York |
| 1888 | German physicist Heinrich Hertz proved the that electro magnetic waves travel over some distance. (First indication of radio communication) |
| 1888 | Croatian American engineer Nicola Tesla invented AC motor |
| 1890 | Thomas Alva Edison invented fuse |
| 1894 | Russian physicist Alexander Stepanovich Popov developed a prototype of a radio receiver |
| 1896 | First successful intercontinental telegram |
| 1897 | German inventor Karl Ferdinand Braun invented cathode ray oscilloscope (CRO) |
| 1900 | Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi succeded in first radio broadcast |
| 1901 | First transatlantic radio broadcast by Guglielmo Marconi |
| 1904 | English engineer John Ambrose Fleming invented diode |
| 1906 | American inventor Lee de Forest invented triode |
| 1912 | American engineer Edwin Howard Armstrong developed Electronic oscillator. |
| 1919 | Edwin Howard Armstrong developed standard AM radio receiver |
| 1928 | First experimental Television broadcast in the US. |
| 1929 | First public TV broadcast in Germany |
| 1931 | First wind energy plant in the Soviet Union |
| 1938 | Russian American engineer Vladimir K. Zworykin developed Iconoscope |
| 1939 | Edwin Howard Armstrong developed FM radio receiver |
| 1939 | Russell and Sigurd Varian developed the first Klystron tube in the US. |
| 1941 | German engineer Konrad Zuse developed the first programmable computer in Berlin |
| 1944 | English engineer John Logie Baird developed the first color picture tube |
| 1947 | American engineers John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain togethr with their group leader William Shockley invented transistor. |
| 1950 | French physicist Alfred Kastler invented MASER |
| 1951 | First Nuclear Energy plant in the US |
| 1953 | First fully transistorized computer in the US |
| 1958 | American engineer Jack Kilby invented ıntegrated circuit (IC) |
| 1960 | Theodore Harold Maiman invented LASER |
| 1962 | Nick Holonyak Jr. invented LED |