{"title":"A common technical culture of telegraphy: The Telegraph Union and the significance of technological standardization 1865–1875","authors":"S. Fari, G. Balbi, G. Richeri","doi":"10.1109/HISTELCON.2012.6487580","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HISTELCON.2012.6487580","url":null,"abstract":"The Telegraph Union, founded in 1865, was the first supranational organization to link different countries with the aim of regulating a public service. Its objectives were: technological standardization, a set of regulations and the adoption of uniform international tariffs. The paper aims to establish how the Telegraph Union influenced the technical standardization process of the international network in the second half of the XIX century.","PeriodicalId":315681,"journal":{"name":"2012 Third IEEE HISTory of ELectro-technology CONference (HISTELCON)","volume":"63 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127268482","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Researching the roots of IEEE Region 8","authors":"M. J. Bastiaans","doi":"10.1109/HISTELCON.2012.6487560","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HISTELCON.2012.6487560","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes the preliminary steps towards the foundation and the early history of IRE Region 9 / IEEE Region 8. The information has been gathered mainly from the archives of the IEEE Benelux Section.","PeriodicalId":315681,"journal":{"name":"2012 Third IEEE HISTory of ELectro-technology CONference (HISTELCON)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129414790","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Survey on induction heating development in Italy","authors":"S. Lupi","doi":"10.1109/HISTELCON.2012.6487570","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HISTELCON.2012.6487570","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a short survey of the development of induction heating technology in Italy, seen in the frame of the international outline. The paper is based on the “lectio magistralis” given in Padua by the author on December 13, 2010 entitled “Research in the field of induction heating at the University of Padua” [1]. After a short historical background, focused on the period before the WWII, the paper deals with the activities in this field of the most important Italian companies and the research developed at the University of Padua.","PeriodicalId":315681,"journal":{"name":"2012 Third IEEE HISTory of ELectro-technology CONference (HISTELCON)","volume":"221 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120943515","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Electric telegraph: Technology implemented by the watchmakers","authors":"A. Oral","doi":"10.1109/HISTELCON.2012.6487573","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HISTELCON.2012.6487573","url":null,"abstract":"It would be quite significant to mention that the most favored technology in the Ottoman Empire during the nineteenth century was the electric telegraphy. This technology did not only give the central government more direct control over the local officials, but also provided ordinary people and merchants with fast communication facilities. This paper summarizes the transfer of electric telegraph technology to the Ottoman Empire and its implementation by the watchmakers in a small workshop.","PeriodicalId":315681,"journal":{"name":"2012 Third IEEE HISTory of ELectro-technology CONference (HISTELCON)","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115535581","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Florentine in in Paris: The Caselli pantelegraph and its successors, 1859–1871","authors":"J. Coopersmith","doi":"10.1109/HISTELCON.2012.6487588","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HISTELCON.2012.6487588","url":null,"abstract":"The world's first commercial facsimile service began between Paris and Lyon in 1865, reflecting a conjunction of good design, superb craftsmanship, need for a faster alternative to Morse telegraphy, and imperial patronage. Although technological and economic shortcomings stopped Abbe Caselli's pantelegraphs in 1867, the French telegraph administration tested other fax systems to increase the speed and accuracy of telegram service. Facsimile machines proved faster than conventional Morse machines, but the automatic printing telegraph was even faster and less expensive. Other countries faced similar challenges with telegraphy, but patronage and craftsmanship distinguished facsimile in France.","PeriodicalId":315681,"journal":{"name":"2012 Third IEEE HISTory of ELectro-technology CONference (HISTELCON)","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122153499","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The history of liquid-crystal display and its industry","authors":"H. Kawamoto","doi":"10.1109/HISTELCON.2012.6487587","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HISTELCON.2012.6487587","url":null,"abstract":"Liquid-crystal display (LCD) was invented in 1964 at RCA Laboratories in Princeton, NJ. In 1970, twisted-nematic (TN) mode of operation was discovered, which gave LCD the first commercial success. The LCD manufacturers supplied small-size displays to portable products such as digital watches and pocket calculators. In 1988, Sharp Corporation demonstrated a 14-in. active-matrix full-color full-motion display using a TFT (thin-film-transistor) array. Observing this, Japan launched a true LCD industry. Large-size displays were first supplied to personal computers and then to television receivers. In the second half of 1990s, the industry has moved to Korea and Taiwan.","PeriodicalId":315681,"journal":{"name":"2012 Third IEEE HISTory of ELectro-technology CONference (HISTELCON)","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115414471","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Historical notice regarding the development of Type-H-Cable","authors":"M. Hochstadter, F. Heilbronner","doi":"10.1109/HISTELCON.2012.6487584","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HISTELCON.2012.6487584","url":null,"abstract":"In the book by Robert Black: The History of Electric Wires and Cables. Peregrinus London 1983, 290 pages, the author Black deals with the individual screening of the three cores in a belted power cable, beginning on p. 109 and high-lightening on p. 111: “In the opinion of the writer this development, the introduction of the Hochstadter screen, was the most important single contribution to the art of cable making during the first quarter of the twentieth century.” Martin Höchstädter (1883-1973) - in original German spelling with two umlauts - left a type-written English manuscript of 7 pages, titled as in the headline and signed by him in 1967 when he was 84 years of age. Höchstädter's text is published here with comments by the editor, because after 50 years MH did not correctly remember the facts. A short biography is included with a portrait photo and an explanatory drawing of three-phase cable cross sections.","PeriodicalId":315681,"journal":{"name":"2012 Third IEEE HISTory of ELectro-technology CONference (HISTELCON)","volume":"326 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128735291","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Second World War and industrial development in Siberia","authors":"L. Sharygina","doi":"10.1109/HISTELCON.2012.6487575","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HISTELCON.2012.6487575","url":null,"abstract":"At the beginning of the Second World War (in Russia it is called Great Patriotic War) the Soviet Union performed enormous operation having no analog in the history - hundreds of factories and plants were moved from the European part of the country over thousand of kilometers to the east - to the Ural, Siberia and the Far East. These evacuated factories formed the ground of industrial development of the Eastern part of the country and the Central Asia Republics during the second part of the XXth century. There was created the powerful bases of electrical, electronic, nuclear and space industry. The paper describes the beginning of the industrial revolution in the field of the electrical and electronic industry in the 40-50th of the last century in some Siberian cities - Tomsk, Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk.","PeriodicalId":315681,"journal":{"name":"2012 Third IEEE HISTory of ELectro-technology CONference (HISTELCON)","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121773697","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bringing social studies to STEM IEEE History Center pre-university outreach","authors":"J. Vardalas","doi":"10.1109/HISTELCON.2012.6487578","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HISTELCON.2012.6487578","url":null,"abstract":"In the U.S. a great deal of attention has been given to expanding the STEM skills of students graduating from high school. But the spread of STEM literacy also depends on fostering an appreciation of the role of STEM in society. The IEEE History Center has developed a pilot project that demonstrates that the pre-university social studies curriculum is the ideal forum to explore the relationship of STEM to human development and to help students see the profound societal dimensions of STEM.","PeriodicalId":315681,"journal":{"name":"2012 Third IEEE HISTory of ELectro-technology CONference (HISTELCON)","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127968854","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“… Go East, Region 8, go East …”","authors":"A. Davies","doi":"10.1109/HISTELCON.2012.6487565","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HISTELCON.2012.6487565","url":null,"abstract":"The development of IEEE activity and formation of new Sections and Chapters in Central and Eastern Europe following the fall of the “Iron Curtain” and the dismantling of the Berlin Wall is outlined, from the personal perspective and experiences of the author.","PeriodicalId":315681,"journal":{"name":"2012 Third IEEE HISTory of ELectro-technology CONference (HISTELCON)","volume":"208 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134018665","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}