4 lives in this collection worked in electrical engineering, from 1797 to today. Each has a full course on their life and the mathematics and physics they made.
Often together with: electromagnetism. All fields
American physicist who built the first powerful electromagnets, discovered self-induction and the oscillatory discharge, and was the first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.
electromagnetism, electrical engineering, acoustics
Self-taught English physicist who gave Maxwell's equations their modern vector form, founded transmission-line theory and invented operational calculus.
electromagnetism, electrical engineering, transmission-line theory
Serbian-American engineer and inventor of polyphase induction motors and the resonant Tesla coil, whose documented engineering helped found the AC power system and whose later wireless and weapons claims grew into a lasting myth.
electrical engineering, alternating-current power, electric machines
American mathematician and engineer who applied Boolean algebra to switching circuits and founded information theory with his 1948 paper A Mathematical Theory of Communication.
information theory, switching theory, cryptography