From Compass to Computer: History of Electrical and Electronics Engineering

by W.A. Atherton

This book presents to electrical and electronics engineers, technicians, and students ( or anyone interested in the development of technology) an easily digestible account of the development of their discipline. This history is known to those specialists, the historians of science and technology, whose job it is to study the subject in part and in depth, but it is relatively unknown to the majority of the electrical engineering fraternity. the aim of this book is to bring to them, readably presented in one book, an account of how their subject developed from its earliest day as two primitive sciences of electricity and magnetism to today's vast engineering applications.

352 pages, Paperback

First published February 16, 1984

Reviews

[Ahmad · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very comprehensive history of electrical engineering, complete with the leading pioneers and companies.

I enjoyed the diagrams.