Institution of Engineering and Technology

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Institution of Engineering and Technology

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION

Founded as the Society of Telegraph Engineers in 1871, it became the Institution of Electrical Engineers in 1889. IEE merged with the Institution of Incorporated Engineers in 2006 to form the present Institution of Engineering and Technology. Present membership, approximately 150,000.

Official Website:
http://www.theiet.org/

Location:
Stevenage, Hertfordshire, England

Founding Date:
17-May-1871

Name Occupation Birth Death Known for

Ross Anderson Scholar 15-Sep-1956 Why Cryptosystems Fail

Hertha Ayrton Physicist 28-Apr-1854 26-Aug-1923 Electric arc

John Logie Baird Inventor 13-Aug-1888 14-Jun-1946 Television

Alan Blumlein Inventor 29-Jun-1903 7-Jun-1942 Stereophonic recording

John Chisholm Business c. 1946 Chairman of QinetiQ

Sir William Crookes Chemist 17-Jun-1832 4-Apr-1919 Discovered element Thallium

William Duddell Physicist 1872 4-Nov-1917 Electronic music

Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti Business 9-Apr-1864 13-Jan-1930 England's electrical grid

David Hughes Inventor 16-May-1831 22-Jan-1900 Inventor of the microphone

Henry B. Jackson Military 21-Jan-1855 14-Dec-1929 Radio telegraphy

Arthur E. Kennelly Physicist 17-Dec-1861 18-Jun-1939 Kennelly-Heaviside layer

Alexander Muirhead Physicist 26-May-1848 13-Dec-1920 Submarine cable telegraphy

Sir Joseph Wilson Swan Physicist 31-Oct-1828 27-May-1914 Light bulb, photographic printing

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