In 1865, James Clerk Maxwell published the “second greatest unification in physics” since Newton.
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Theodore Maiman built the first working laser (Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation).
Alexander Graham Bell sent the first voice message over a telegraph wire in 1876.
Thomas Edison (the man with 1093 patents) demonstrated the first practical lightbulb in 1879.
In 1886, radio waves were transmitted and received for the first time by Heinrich Hertz.
The Michigan Micro Mote is a fully autonomous computing system that acts as a smart sensing system.
The Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer was the first large-scale computer to run at electronic speed.
Bill Hewlett and David Packard finalized their partnership in January 1939 after supplying oscillators to Disney.
LASIK surgery came about thanks to ultrafast femtosecond lasers, the direct result of Michigan research.
“Human computers” were often utilized in order to solve mathematical problems and process data.
The NASA Center for Space Terahertz Technology pioneered the development of Terahertz antenna arrays.
In 1896, at the age of 22, Guglielmo Marconi first demonstrated wireless transmission by radio.
ECE alum Lee Boysel and his team created the first single-chip CPU microprocessor.
Leith made holography a reality, stunning the world with his holographic train in 1964.
Center for Photonic and Multiscale Nanomaterials focuses on controlling light interactions with matter.
Department Chair William Gould Dow was responsible for bringing industry- and government-sponsored research to Michigan.
Prof. Battacharya was instrumental in early understanding of the tiny semiconductor particles called quantum dots.
The first Research Center in Wireless Integrated Microsensing and Systems forged advances in many fields.
In 1963, two organizations merged to form the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, or IEEE.
John Bardeen, William Shockley and Walter Brattain invented the transistor in 1947.
Extremely accurate probes us a variety of technologies to make mapping the brain with light possible.
Department Chair William Gould Dow was a charter member of the group responsible for its founding.
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