| Who |
Contribution(s) |
| Edwin Armstrong |
Regenerative circuit, frequency modulation (FM) |
| Amar Bose |
Acoustics: audio and speakers |
| Emile Baudot |
Communications |
| Alexander Graham Bell |
Bell telephone company |
| Alan Blumlein |
Inventions in telecommunications, sound recording, stereo, television, radar |
| Karlheinz Brandenburg |
Audio compression scheme MP3 |
| William Coolidge |
X-rays |
| Seymour Cray |
Supercomputer architect |
| Lee DeForest |
Audion vacuum tube |
| George de Mestral |
Velcro |
| Paul Dirac |
Physicist; Dirac delta |
| Ray Dolby |
Dolby sound |
| J. Presper Eckert |
Computer pioneer |
| Thomas Edison |
Prolific inventor: phonograph, first practical light bulb, telegraph improvements |
| A. K. Erlang |
Communications and Queueing |
| Michael Faraday |
Discovered electromagnetic induction and Faraday shield |
| Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti |
Ferranti Corporation |
| Reginald Fessenden |
"Father of Radio Broadcasting" |
| Gerhard Fischer |
Handheld metal detector |
| John Ambrose Fleming |
Inventor of the thermionic valve (vacuum tube) |
| Thomas Flowers |
Designer of the first programmable digital electronic computer |
| Jay Forrester |
American computer pioneer |
| Charles Legeyt Fortescue |
Canadian - symmetrical components for three-phase power system analysis |
| Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier |
Physicist; Fourier transform / Fourier series |
| Lee Hamilton |
Businessman, current president of Freedom Scientific |
| Ralph Hartley |
Electronics |
| Oliver Heaviside |
Re-formulated Maxwell's equations (vector calculus) |
| Peter Cooper Hewitt |
Mercury vapor lamp, mercury arc rectifier |
| William Hewlett |
Hewlett-Packard |
| Grace Hopper |
Computer programmer (first compiler) |
| Lawrence A. Hyland |
Radar pioneer, leader of Hughes Aircraft |
| Kees Schouhamer Immink |
Pioneer optical recording, CD, DVD, Blu-Ray Disc |
| Bill Joy |
Unix - Sun Microsystems |
| Rudolf Kalman |
Inventor of the Kalman filter |
| Charles Kettering |
Automobile electrical innovations, Delco founder |
| Jack Kilby |
Integrated circuit |
| Herbert Kroemer |
Heterostructures and semiconductor physics |
| Eric Laithwaite |
Linear induction motor |
| Hedy Lamarr |
Communications |
| Uno Lamm |
Swedish, HVDC and mercury arc valves |
| Guglielmo Marconi |
Practical radio |
| John Mauchly |
ENIAC designer |
| Robert Moog |
Electronic music pioneer, invented Moog synthesizer |
| Arthur Nielsen |
Nielsen ratings developer |
| Robert Noyce |
Co-founder of Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel |
| Bernard M. (Barney) Oliver |
Hewlett-Packard, Founder HP Labs |
| Kenneth Olsen |
Magnetic core memory; Digital Equipment Corporation |
| Donald Pederson |
Father of SPICE |
| David Packard |
Hewlett-Packard |
| Mihajlo Pupin |
Long-distance telephone communication. "Pupin coil" |
| Hyman G. Rickover |
"Father of the Nuclear Navy" |
| Edward S. Rogers, Sr. |
Inventor of the first successful AC radio tube |
| H. J. Round |
Radio pioneer and assistant to Guglielmo Marconi |
| Thomas Johann Seebeck |
Thermoelectric effect |
| Claude Shannon |
"Father of Communication Theory" |
| Percy Spencer |
Microwave oven |
| Frank J. Sprague |
"Father of Electric Traction" |
| Charles Proteus Steinmetz |
Alternating current theories |
| Albert H. Taylor |
First demonstration of radar |
| Nikola Tesla |
Revolving magnetic field electric motor, Tesla coil, Polyphase transmission systems, transformer |
| Elihu Thomson |
Entrepreneur |
| William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) |
Telegraphic cables |
| Milan Vidmar |
Power transformers and transmission of electric current |
| Andrew Viterbi |
Communications |
| Robert Watson-Watt |
First practical radar |
| George Westinghouse |
AC power industrialist |
| Niklaus Wirth |
Computer programming languages |
| Steve Wozniak |
Personal computers; Apple Computer |
| Konrad Zuse |
Computers |
