Timeline of electrical and electronic engineering

  • Alfred Kastler

    French physicist Alfred Kastler invented MASER
  • Nuclear power

    First nuclear power plant in the US
  • Kay

    Digital voltmeter
  • transistorized computer

    First fully transistorized computer in the US
  • Chapin, Fuller, and Pearson

    Solar battery
  • UK and U.S

    Transatlantic telephone cable
  • Magellan Navigation Inc.

    First commercial handheld GPS receiver (Magellan NAV 1000)
  • Jack Kilby

    American engineer Jack Kilby invented the integrated circuit (IC)
  • Theodore Harold Maiman

    American engineer Theodore Harold Maiman invented the LASER
  • Vogel and Cie, patented by Alexander Bain, Scottish clockmaker in 1840.

    Electronic clock
  • Nick Holonyak Jr.

    Nick Holonyak Jr. invented the LED
  • Videocassette recorder

    First home Videocassette recorder (VCR)
  • Electronic calculator

    Electronic calculator
  • Intel

    486 microprocessor (33 MHz)
  • Richard Stanley Williams

    American scientist Richard Stanley Williams invented memristor which was proposed by Leon O. Chua in 1971