National Academy of Engineering
Greatest Achievements: Computers
Computers are one of the top 20 engineering innovations of the 20th century. Read the history behind this great invention.
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
Magnet Academy: Siegmund Loewe
Siegmund Loewe was a German engineer and businessman that developed vacuum tube forerunners of the modern integrated circuit. He pioneered both radio and television broadcasting, and the company he established with his brother, David...
Nobel Media AB
The Nobel Prize: Vacuum Tubes
The Nobel Foundation provides a brief story about the first vacuum tubes used in early electronic devices such as radios and phonographs and even the first computers.