- Article on Claude Shannon from Bell Labs "The Bit Player", a movie about Claude Shannon commissioned by the IEEE Information Soceity
25 Microchips That Shook the World, IEEE Spectrum article that provided new functionality to consumers and the world (remember “Speak and Spell”?)
Mysterious Radio Bursts From Space, article discussing this phenomena which occurs roughly every 160 days Book: "A Thread Across the Ocean" The heroic story of the transatlantic cable, by John Steele Gordon. History Channel Series "The Engineering That Built the World" Book: "The Last Lone Inventor: A Tale of Genius, Deceit, and the Birth of Television" by Ivan A. Schwartz. A book about Farnsworth vs. Sarnoff Discovery Channel programming "Engineering Catastrophes". A series primarily about civil engineering catastrophes.
National Capital Radio & Television Museum Periodical Holdings
Old Amateur Radio Call Books for researching old calls and hams. Later editions mainly only have zero call sign pages. Older editions (1920s, etc. ) are complete with all call signs. Note that not all years are available.
Titan Calling - how a Swedish engineer figured out how to fix a link problem on tje space probe that would have prevented getting vital information back on Saturn.
Pioneer Space Probes De-Acceleration Mystery Solved - Interesting article about the mystery of the slight de-acceleration and how it was solved with scientific detective work and good records keeping.