American Institute of Electrical Engineers
The American Institute of Electrical Engineers ( AIEE ) was a US professional association of electrical engineers based in New York City . It was founded in the spring of 1884 and merged on January 1, 1963 with the Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE) to form the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
The AIEE has awarded the Edison Medal since 1908 .
history
In the spring of 1884, a small group of electrical engineers met in New York and founded the AIEE to support their profession. In October of the same year, the first technical session during the International Electrical Exhibition , the first major exhibition on electricity in the United States, was held at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia . Founding president was Norvin Green of the Western Union . Like him, many of the early functionaries came from the telegraph field . Thomas Edison and others came from the field of electricity , while Alexander Graham Bellrepresented the new area of the telephone industry. With the progress of electrification, the AIEE increasingly focused on techniques for using electrical energy. The second area of activity was wired communication.
Prominent presidents of the AIEE were Alexander Graham Bell (1891–1892), Charles Proteus Steinmetz (1901–1902), Schuyler S. Wheeler (1905–1906), Dugald C. Jackson (1910–1911), Mihajlo Pupin (1925–1926) and Titus G. LeClair (1950-1951).
Web links
- History of the IEEE (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Expositions and Exhibitions . ( Memento of March 11, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Smithsonian Museum (English)