• George Edward Alcorn

    George Edward Alcorn, Jr. received a four-year academic scholarship to Occidental College in Los Angeles, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Physics. George Edward Alcorn received his degree with honors while earning eight letters in basketball and football. George Edward Alcorn ...

    People; Scientists
  • Ernst Alexanderson

    Dr. Ernst Alexanderson was the General Electric engineer who built a high-frequency alternator (a device that converts direct current into alternating current) that greatly improved radio communication. Prior to Alexanderson' alternator, radio was broadcast by what was called spark machines ...

    People; Scientists
  • Howard Aiken

    Howard Aiken and Grace Hopper designed the MARK series of computers at Harvard University. The MARK series of computers began with the Mark I in 1944. Imagine a giant roomful of noisy, clicking metal parts, 55 feet long and 8 feet high. The 5-ton device contained almost 760,000 separate pieces. ...

    People; Scientists
  • Thomas Adams

    Thomas Adams first tried to change chicle into synthetic rubber products, before making a chewing gum. Thomas Adams attempted to make toys, masks, rain boots, and bicycle tires out of the chicle from Mexican sapodilla trees, but every experiment failed. One day in 1869, he popped a piece of surplus ...

    People; Scientists
  • Eddy Current

    Induced circulating currents in a conducting material that are caused by a varying magnetic field. The current induced in a conductor subjected to a varying magnetic field.

    Engineering; Electronic engineering
  • Active Serial Interface

    A term used with programming an FPGA. In the Active Serial [AS] configuration scheme, Altera FPGAs are configured with serial configuration devices. Also called Active Serial Mode, or Active Serial Scheme; where Active Serial may be Abbreviated as AS. Related terms include Passive Serial ...

    Engineering; Electronic engineering
  • electrode boiler

    A boiler which generates steam or hot water by the action of immersed electrodes which conduct electricity through the boiler water, which, in turn, generates heat by its resistance to electric current.

    Chemistry; Electrochemistry
  • Magneto

    An electrical device which generates electrical current when it is rotated by an outside source of power. It needs no outside source of power such as a battery . It may produce either low or high tension current.

    Electronic components; Power sources
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