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A comprehensive and fascinating account of electrical and electronics history

Much of the infrastructure of today's industrialized world arose in the period from the outbreak of World War I to the conclusion of World War II. It was during these years that the capabilities of traditional electrical engineering--generators, power transmission, motors, electric lighting and heating, home appliances, and so on--became ubiquitous. Even more importantly, it was during this time that a new type of electrical engineering--electronics--emerged. Because of its applications in communications (both...

This bibliography was compiled by Frederik Nebeker, Mellon Fellow in Bibliography for 1988-89, who unearthed a wealth of material in the manuscript collections and archives of the APS documenting the life and work of 181 American scientists in the fields of astronomy and the “geophysical tradition.” In addition to concise characterizations of the nature of the documents, Dr. Nebeker has added brief biographies of each scientist, a comprehensive list of all scientists working in astronomy and the geophysical tradition, and an index to specific areas of study. This bibliography will be of...

During the course of this century, meteorology has become unified, physics-based, and highly computational. Calculating the Weather: Meteorology in the 20th Century explains this transformation by examining thevarious roles of computation throughout the history of meteorology, giving most attention to the period from World War I to the 1960s. The electronic digital computer, a product of World War II, led to great advances in empirical, theoretical, and practical meteorology. At the same time, the use of the computer led to the discovery of so-called"chaotic systems,"and to the...