The Electric Century

Author

Nebeker, Frederik

Volume

37

Issue

6

fYear

2000

fDate

6/1/2000 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

68

Lastpage

74

Abstract

The 20th century saw greater changes in daily life than did any other century in history-a transformation in large part due to electrical technologies. The milestones included: the spread of electric power; instantaneous telecommunications; household appliances; factory automation; radio and television broadcasting; movies, videos, and other sources of information and entertainment; electronics for aviation and space exploration; instrumentation for scientific research; health technologies; computers; and the Internet. Clearly, the 1900s deserve to be called the Electric Century. The author gives a sampling of important and interesting events that illustrate the remarkable progress made over the past 100 years.

Keywords

aerospace; computer applications; electronic engineering; history; power engineering; telecommunication; Internet; aviation electronics; computers; electric power; electrical technologies; entertainment; factory automation; health technologies; household appliances; information sources; instantaneous telecommunications; movies; radio broadcasting; scientific research instrumentation; space exploration; television broadcasting; videos; Broadcast technology; Home appliances; Information resources; Manufacturing automation; Motion pictures; Radio broadcasting; Space exploration; Space technology; TV broadcasting; Videos;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Spectrum, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9235

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MSPEC.2000.886966

Filename

886966