Index of electrical engineering articles
This is an alphabetical list of articles pertaining specifically to electrical and electronics engineering. For a thematic list, please see List of electrical engineering topics. For a broad overview of engineering, see List of engineering topics. For biographies, see List of engineers.
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866A – 15 kV AC – 2D computer graphics – 3Com – Abrasion (mechanical) – AC adapter – AC power plugs and sockets – AC power – AC/AC converter – AC/DC receiver design – AC/DC conversion – Active rectification – Actuator – Adaptive control – Adjustable-speed drive – Advanced Z-transform – Affinity law – Agbioeletric – AIEE – All American Five – Alloy – ALOHAnet – Alpha–beta transformation – Altair 8800 – Alternating current – Alternator (auto) – Alternator synchronization-- Alternator – Altitude – Aluminium smelting – AIEE – Ammeter – Amorphous metal transformer – Ampacity – Ampere – Ampère's circuital law – Ampère's force law – Ampère's law – Amplidyne – Amplifier – Amplitude modulation – Analog circuit – Analog filter – Analog signal processing – Analog signal – Analog-to-digital converter – Annealing (metallurgy) – Anode – Antenna (radio) – Apollo program – Apparent power – Apple Computer – Arc converter – Arc furnace – Arc lamp – Arc welder – Argon – Arithmetic mean – Armature (electrical engineering) – Artificial heart – Artificial intelligence – Artificial neural networks – Artificial pacemaker – ASTM – Asymptotic stability – Asynchronous circuit – Audio and video connector – Audio equipment – Audio filter – Audio frequency – Audio noise reduction – Audio signal processing – Audion tube – Austin transformer – Automatic gain control – Automatic transfer switch – Automation – Autorecloser – Autotransformer – Availability factor – Avalanche diode – Average rectified value –
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Backward wave oscillator – Balanced line – Ball bearing motor – Balun – Band-pass filter – Band-stop filter – Bandwidth (signal processing) – Bang-bang control – Barlow's wheel – Bartlett's bisection theorem – Base load power plant – Battery (electricity) – Battery eliminator – Bayer filter – Beam tetrode – Beat frequency – Beckman Instruments – Bell Telephone Laboratories – Biasing (electronics) – BIBO stability – Bilinear transform – Bimetallic strip – Biofuel – Biomass – Biomedical engineering – Biot–Savart law – Bipolar junction transistor – Bipolar transistor – Black start – Blocked rotor test – Blu-ray Disc – Bode plot – Boolean algebra (logic) – Boolean algebra (structure) – Boost converter – Booster (electric power) – Bound charge – Braking chopper – Branch circuit – Breakdown voltage – Bridge rectifier – Broadcasting – Brown, Boveri & Cie – Brush (electric) – Brushed DC electric motor – Brushless DC electric motor – Buchholz relay – Buck converter – Buck–boost converter – Buck–boost transformer – Building codes – Bulb – Bunker Ramo Corporation – Busbar – Bushing (electrical) – Butterworth filter – Buzzer –
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Cable – Cadmium – Calculus – Canadian electrical code – Canadian Standards Association – Capacitance – Capacitor voltage transformer – Capacitor – Capacitor-input filter – Capacitors – Capacity factor – Carbon offset – Carrier current – Carrier wave – Category 3 cable – Category 5e cable – Category 5e – Category 6 cable – Catenary – Cathode ray oscilloscope – Cathode ray tube – Cathode – Cat's-whisker detector – CATV – Cavity magnetron – magnetron – CCFL inverter – CD – Cegelec – Cell energy – Center tap – Ceramic resonator – Channel (communications) – Charactron – Charge pump – Charge transfer switch – Charge-coupled device – CHAYKA – Chebyshev filter – Chemistry – Choke (electronics) – Chopper (electronic) – Circle diagram – Circuit breaker panel – Circuit breaker – Circuit theory – Circuit Total Limitation (CTL) – Clamp meter – Clapp oscillator – Class of accuracy in electrical measurements – Closed-loop controller – Coal – Coax cable – Coaxial cable – Cochlear implant – Cockcroft–Walton generator – Cogeneration – Cold cathode – Cold work – Colossus (computer) – Combined cycle – Commercial off-the-shelf – Communication system – Communications satellite – Communications server – Commutation cell – Commutator (electric) – Compact fluorescent lamp – Compactron – Compensation winding – Complex conjugate – Complex number – Complex systems – Computational biology – Computational Intelligence – Computed tomography – Computer engineering – Computer hardware – Computer literacy – Computer programming – Computer science – Computer system – Computer – Computer-aided design – Computers – Concentric – Conduction band – Constant k filter – Constitutive equation – Consumer electronics – Contactor – Continuous Fourier transform – Continuous signal – Control engineering – Control systems – Control theory – Controllability – Controller (control theory) – Cooling tower – Copper cable certification – Copper loss – Copper(I) oxide – Copper – Copper-clad aluminum – Copper-clad steel – Cornell University – Corona ring – Corrosion – Coulomb – Coulomb's law – CPU – Creep (deformation) – Crest factor – Crossed-field amplifier – Crosstalk – Cruise control – Crystal oscillator – Ćuk converter – Current (electricity) – Current density – Current division – Current source inverter – Current source – Current transformer – Current-to-voltage converter – Cybernetics – Cyber-physical system – Cycloconverter – Cylinder (geometry) –
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Damping ratio – Damping – Darlington transistor – Darmstadt University of Technology – Data compression – Data networks – DC injection braking – DC-to-DC converter – Decision tree – Deformation (mechanics) – Delay line (disambiguation) – Delco Electronics – Delta-wye transformer – Demand factor – Demand response – Demodulation – Describing function – Design – Desktop computer – Detector (radio) – DIAC – Dielectric – Differential (mathematics) – Digital audio broadcasting – Digital circuit – Digital computers – Digital control – Digital Equipment Corporation – Digital filter – Digital image processing – Digital micromirror device – Digital protective relay – Digital signal controller – Digital signal processing – Digital television – Digital-to-analog converter – Diode bridge – Diode – Direct current – Direct on line starter-- Direct torque control – Discrete cosine transform – Discrete Fourier transform – Discrete signal – Displacement current – Display device – Dissipation – Dissolved gas analysis – Distributed Control System – Distributed element model – Distributed generation – Distribution board – Distribution transformer – Dolby – Dot convention – Doubly fed electric machine – Downsampling – Dqo transformation – Droop speed control – Dual control theory – Dual loop – Ductility – DVD player – DVD – Dynamic braking – Dynamic demand (electric power) – Dynamic programming – Dynamic random access memory – Dynamic system – Dynamo –
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Earth leakage circuit breaker – Earth potential rise – Earth – Earthing system – Ebers-Moll – Ecotax – Eddy current – Edge detection – Edison effect – Edison Pioneer – Eigenvalues and eigenvectors – Electret – Electric arc – Electric charge – Electric circuit – Electric current – Electric displacement field – Electric distribution systems – Electric field gradient – Electric field – Electric generator – Electric motor – Electric multiple unit – Electric potential – Electric power conversion – Electric power distribution – Electric Power Research Institute – Electric power transmission – Electric power – Electric shock – Electrical circuit – Electrical code – Electrical conductivity – Electrical conductor – Electrical contact – Electrical discharge machining (EDM) – Electrical element – Electrical engineering – Electrical equipment – Electrical generator – Electrical grid – Electrical impedance – Electrical insulation paper – Electrical insulation – Electrical load – Electrical machine – Electrical measurements – Electrical network – Electrical polarity – Electrical power transmission – Electrical resistance – Electrical steel – Electrical substation – Electrical Technologist – Electrical wiring in Hong Kong – Electrical wiring in North America – Electrical wiring in the United Kingdom – Electrical wiring regulations – Electrical wiring – Electricity distribution – Electricity generation – Electricity meter – Electricity pylon – Electricity – Electrification – Electroactive polymers – Electrocardiograph – Electrochemical engineering – Electrodes – Electro-diesel locomotive – Electrodynamics – Electrolytic – Electromagnet – Electromagnetic compatibility – Electromagnetic field – Electromagnetic induction – Electromagnetic radiation – Electromagnetic spectrum – Electromagnetic wave equation – Electromagnetism – Electromechanical – Electro-mechanical – Electromote – Electromotive force – Electron microscope – Electronic amplifier – Electronic circuit – Electronic component – Electronic Control Unit – Electronic design automation – Electronic engineering – Electronic filter – Electronic speed control – Electronics – Electrophorus – Electrostatic motor – Electrostatics – Embedded operating system – Embedded software – Embedded system – Enameled wire – Energy demand management – Energy economics – Energy efficient transformer – Energy returned on energy invested – Energy subsidies – Engineering economics – Engineering education – Engineering ethics – Engineering management – Engineering society – Engineering – Engine-generator – ENIAC – Environmental engineering – Epstein frame – Equalization (audio) – Equalization (communications) – Equivalent circuit – Equivalent impedance transforms – Error correction and detection – Error correction – Error detection – Ethernet – Ethical code – Euclidean geometry – Euler–Lagrange equation – Euler's formula – Euler's identity – Exponential stability – Extended Kalman filter – External electric load –
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Fairchild Semiconductor – Farad – Faraday shield – Faraday–Lenz law – Faraday's law of induction – Fast Fourier Transform – Fault (power engineering) – Fax – Feed forward (control) – Feedback amplifier – Feedback – Feed-in tariff – Ferranti – Ferrite core – Ferroelectricity – Fiber optic cable – Fiber optic – Field effect transistor – Field-oriented control – Fields of engineering – Filter (signal processing) – Filter capacitor – Finite impulse response – Firmware – First principles – Fleming valve – Fleming's left-hand rule for motors – Flight instruments – Fluorescent lamp – Fluorinated ethylene propylene – Flux linkage – Flyback converter – Flyback transformer – Fokker–Planck equation – Forward converter – Fossil-fuel phase-out-- Fossil-fuel power station-- Fourier series – Fourier transform – FPGA – Free space optical communications – Frequency changer – Frequency modulation – Frequency response – Frequency – Full load current – Full-wave rectifier – Fundamentals of Engineering exam – Fuse (electrical) – Fuzzy control –
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Gain scheduling – Galvanic corrosion – Galvanometer – Gas-filled tube – Gate turn-off thyristor (GTO) – Gauss's law – Gauss-Seidel method – General Electric Company plc – General Electric – General Radio Corporation – Generator (circuit theory) – Geographic information systems – Georgia School of Technology – Geoscience – Geothermal power – Germanium – Gigabit – Global Positioning System – Gold – Governor (device) – GPS – Gradient descent – Grid energy storage – Grid-tie inverter – Ground (electricity) – Ground and neutral – Ground-level power supply – Growler (electrical device) – GSM – Gunn diode – Gyrotron –
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H infinity – Hall effect sensor – Harmonic distortion – Harmonic oscillator – Harmonic – Harmonics (electrical power) – H-bridge – HDTV – Headphone – Heat transfer – Heatsink – Heaviside step function – Henry (unit) – Hertz – Heterostructure – Hewlett-Packard – Hi-Fi – High-voltage cable – High voltage – High-pass filter – High-voltage direct current – High-voltage switchgear – Hilbert transform – History of electrical engineering – Holography – Home appliance – Homopolar generator – Homopolar motor – Horsepower – Hot wire barretter – Hradec substation – Hughes Aircraft – Humidistat – HVAC – HVDC converter station – HVDC – Hybrid coil – Hybrid electric vehicle – Hybrid Synergy Drive – Hydroelectricity – Hydrogen embrittlement – Hydropower – Hydro-Québec's electricity transmission system – Hysteresis –
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Idaho National Laboratory – IEC61850 – IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society – IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society – IEEE Broadcast Technology Society – IEEE Circuits and Systems Society – IEEE Communications Society – IEEE Dielectrics & Electrical Insulation Society – IEEE Electromagnetic Compatibility Society – IEEE Electron Devices Society – IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society – IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society – IEEE Industrial Electronics Society – IEEE Industry Applications Society – IEEE Information Theory Society – IEEE Instrumentation & Measurement Society – IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society – IEEE Magnetics Society – IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society – IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society – IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society – IEEE Photonics Society – IEEE Power & Energy Society – IEEE Reliability Society – IEEE Robotics and Automation Society – IEEE Signal Processing Society – IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology – IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society – IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society – IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Society – IEEE Vehicular Technology Society – IEEE Xplore – IGBT – Image impedance – Image noise reduction – Image processing – Impulse response – Incandescent lamp – Incandescent light bulb – Inchworm motor—Index of electrical engineering articles – Inductance – Induction coil – induction cooker – Induction generator – Induction motor – Induction regulator – Inductive coupling – Inductive output tube – Inductor – Inductors – Industrial and multiphase power plugs and sockets – Industrial automation – Industrial Control Systems – Infinite impulse response – Information appliance – Information communication technology – Information Theory – Information – Inga-Shaba – Input/output – Inrush current – Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) – Institution of Electrical Engineers – Institution of Engineering and Technology – Instrumentation engineering – Instrumentation – Insulation monitoring device – Insulator (electrical) – Integrated circuit – Integrated circuits – Intel 4004 – Intel 8080 – Intel Corporation – Intel – Intelligent control – Intelligent Transportation System – Intermittent energy source – Internal combustion engine – International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) – International Organization for Standardization – Interrupter – Invention of radio – Inverter (electrical) – Iron loss – Isolated-phase bus – Isolation transformer – Iterative learning control –
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j operator – Jacobi method – Jedlik's dynamo – JFET – Joule heating – Joule –
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Kalman filter – Kalman–Yakubovich–Popov lemma – Kelvin–Stokes theorem – Kilovolt-ampere – Kirchhoff's circuit laws – Klystron – Kolmogorov backward equation –
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Lacquer – LAN – Laplace transform – Laser diode – Leakage inductance – Least squares – Light-emitting diode – Line integral – Linear alternator – linear differential equation – Linear matrix inequality – Linear motor – Linear variable differential transformer – linear – Lineman (occupation) – List of calculus topics – List of chemistry topics – List of current systems for electric rail traction – List of electrical engineering topics – List of electrical engineers – List of electronics topics – List of mathematical topics – List of people in systems and control – List of physics topics – List of Russian electrical engineers – Litz wire – Load flow study – Load following power plant – Load-loss factor – Load management – Load profile – Local positioning system – LORAN – Lorentz force law – Loss power – Lossless data compression – Lossy data compression – Loudspeaker – Low-pass filter – LTI system theory – Lumen (unit) – Lumped parameters – Lyapunov stability – Lynch motor –
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Macroscopic – Magnet wire – Magnet – Magnetic blowout – Magnetic circuit – Magnetic constant – Magnetic core memory – Magnetic core – Magnetic field – Magnetic flux density – Magnetic flux – Magnetic moment – Magnetics – Magnetism – Magnetization – Magnetization current – Magnetostatics – Magnetostriction – Magnifying transmitter – Main distribution frame – Mainframe computer – Mains electricity – Mains hum – Mains power systems – Manitoba Hydro – Manufacturing engineering – Marginal stability – Marine energy – Marx generator – Maser – Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Mathematical model – Mathematics – Matrix (mathematics) – Maximum prospective short-circuit current – Maxwell equations – Maxwell's equations – Mead & Conway revolution – Mean free path – Measurement – Mechanical rectifier – Mechatronics – Medical equipment – Memistor – Mendocino motor – Mercury-arc rectifier – Mercury-arc valve – Mercury vapor lamp – Mesh analysis – Mesh networking – Mesh – Metadyne – Metal detector – Metal rectifier – Metalworking – Micro combined heat and power – Microcontroller – Microelectromechanical systems – Microelectronics – Microfabrication – Microgeneration – Microphone – Microprocessor – Microprocessors – Microwave oven – Microwave radio – Microwave – Millman's theorem – Mineral-insulated copper-clad cable – Mobile phone – Modbus – Model predictive control – Modem – Modulation transformer – Modulation – Monoscope – Moon landing – Moore's law – Morse code – MOSFET – Motion control – Motor (disambiguation) – Motor controller – Motor soft starter – Mp3 – MRI – Multics – Multimeter – Multisim –
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Nameplate capacity – Nanoengineering – Nanoinverter – Nanomotor – Nanotechnology – National electric code – National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) – Natural gas – Negative feedback – Negative resistance – Negawatt power – Nelson River Bipole – Neodymium magnets – Neon sign – Neon-sign transformer – Net metering – Network analyzer (AC power)-- Network cable – Network protector – Neural networks – Newcastle-upon-Tyne Electric Supply Company – Niagara Falls – Nodal analysis – Node (circuits) – Noise cancelling – Noise reduction – Nominal impedance – Nonlinear control – Nonode – Norton theorem – Norton's theorem – Notch filter – NTSC – Nuclear power – Numerical control – Nuvistor – Nyquist frequency – Nyquist stability criterion – Nyquist–Shannon sampling theorem –
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Observability – Occupations in electrical/electronics engineering – Ohm – Ohmmeter – Ohm's law – Oil shale – One-line diagram – On-premises wiring – Open-circuit test – Open circuit voltage – Open-circuit time constant method – Open-circuit voltage – Operational amplifier – Optical fiber – Optimal control – Oscillation – Oscilloscope – Oudin coil – Out of phase – Outline of electrical engineering – Overhead line – Oversampling – Overshoot (signal) – Overvoltage – Oxidation – Oxygen – Oxygen-free copper –
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Pad-mount transformer – Padmount transformer – Pantograph (rail) – Paraformer – Paraformer – Parameter estimation – Park transform – Park's transformation – Partial discharge – Passivity (engineering) – Patch cables – Peak demand – Pearl Street Station – Peltier–Seebeck effect – Pentagrid converter – Pentode – Permanent magnet synchronous generator – Permanent magnet – Permeability (electromagnetism) – Personal computer – Personal digital assistant – Perturbation theory – Petroleum – pH meter – Phase (waves) – Phase angle – Phase converter – Phase-fired controllers – Phase locked loop – Phase modulation – Phasor (electronics) – Phasor measurement unit – Phasor – Phonograph – Photocell – Photodetector – Photodiode – Photometer – Photonics – Photoresistor – Phototransistor – Physics – Physis – PID controller – Piezoelectric effect – Piezoelectric motor – Pigovian tax – PIN diode – Pirelli – Planar graph – Plasma (physics) – Plenum cable – Plug-in hybrid – P-N junction – Polarization density – Polyethylene – Polymer – Polyphase coil – Polyphase system – Polypropylene – Polytetrafluoroethylene – Pontryagin's minimum principle – Port (circuit theory) – Positive feedback – Potential difference – Potentiometer – Potentiometers – Power – Power BJT – Power cable – Power conditioner – Power consumption – Power converter – Power distribution – Power electronics – Power engineering – Power-factor correction – Power factor – Power-flow study – Power generation – Power grid – Power inverter – Power inverter – Power-line carrier communication – Power-line communication – Power MOSFET – Power plant – Power rating – Power quality – Power station – Power storage – Power supplies – Power-system automation – Power-system protection – Precious metal – Pressure – Printed circuit board – Printer (computing) – Process control – Product lifecycle management – Product safety – Professional communication – Professional engineer – Programmable logic controller – Programming language – Project management – Projection (mathematics) – Prolec GE – Protective relay – Proximity effect (electromagnetism) – Pulse transformer – Pulse-width modulation – Pulse-amplitude modulation (PAM) – Pulse-code modulation – Pumped-storage hydroelectricity – Push switch – Push–pull converter –
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Quadrature booster – Qualitative data – Quality – Quality control – Quality factor – Quantity – Quantization (signal processing) –
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Radar cross section – Radar – Radio frequency – Radio transmitter – Radio – Railroad – Railway electrification system – Rankine cycle – Rapid transit – Reactive power – Real-time operating system – Receiver (radio) – Rechargeable battery – Reciprocity (electromagnetism) – Record player – Rectifier – Rectiformer – Recursive least squares – Reed switch – Regenerative braking – Regenerative circuit – Reis telephone – Relaxation oscillator – Relay – Reliability engineering – Reluctance motor – Remanence – Remote racking system – Remote Sensing – Renewable electricity – Renewable Energy Certificates – Renewable energy payments – Renewable energy policy – Repeating coil – Repowering – Repulsion motor – Resettable fuse – Residual current circuit breaker – Resistive circuit – Resistivity – Resistor – Resistors – Resolver (electrical) – Resonant cavity – Resonant inductive coupling – Reverse engineering – RF connector – RF engineering – RG-6 – Rheoscope – Rheostat – Right hand grip rule – Ripple (electrical) – RLC circuit – Robotics – Robust control – Rogowski coil – Root locus – Root mean square – Rotary converter – Rotary encoder – Rotary switch – Rotary transformer – Rotary variable differential transformer – Rotation (mathematics) – Rotor (electric) – Routh–Hurwitz stability criterion – Routh–Hurwitz theorem –
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Sallen–Key filter – Sample and hold – Sampling (information theory) – Sampling frequency – Satellite radio – Satellite – Saturation (magnetic) – SCADA – Scanner (disambiguation) – Schmitt trigger – Schottky diode – Scott-T transformer – s-domain – SDTV – Segmentation (image processing) – Selenium rectifiers – Selenium – Semiconductor device – Semiconductor fabrication – Semiconductor – Sensor – Serial communication – Series and parallel circuits – SETI – Shaded-pole motor – Shaft voltage – Shielded twisted pair – Short-circuit test – Short circuit – Shunt (electrical) – SI – Siemens & Halske – Siemens (unit) – Siemens – Signal (electrical engineering) – Signal (information theory) – Signal noise – Signal processing – Signal strength – Signal-flow graph – Signal-to-noise ratio – Silicon controlled rectifier – Silicon Valley – Silicon – Silver – Sine wave – Single-phase electric power – Single-phase – Single-sideband modulation – Skin effect – Sliding mode control – Slip ring – Small signal model – Smart grid – Smith chart – Snowy Mountains scheme – Software engineering – Software – Solar cell – Solar energy – Solar micro-inverter – Solar power plants in the Mojave Desert – Solar power – Soldering – Solenoid – Solid state (electronics) – Solid state physics – Solid-state circuit – Sound recording – Space flight – Space vector modulation – Spark spread – Spark-gap transmitter – Spectrum analyzer – Speech processing – SPICE – Split phase – Square wave – Stability theory – Stable polynomial – Stacking factor – Star-mesh transform – State observer – State space representation – Static VAR compensator – Stator – Steady-state – Steam turbine – Steel – Step response – Stepper motor – Stereophonic sound – Stokes' theorem – Storage tube – Stray capacitance – Structure gauge – Structured cabling – Submarine communications cable – Sulfur hexafluoride circuit breaker – Sulfur hexafluoride – Sun Microsystems – Super grid – Supercomputer – Superconducting electric machine – Superconductivity – Superfluid – Superheterodyne receiver – Superposition theorem – Surge arrester – Surge protection – Switch – Switched reluctance motor – Switched-mode power supply – Switchgear – Symbolic circuit analysis – Symmetrical components – Synchro – Synchronization (alternating current) – Synchronous circuit – Synchronous motor – Synchronous rectification – Synchroscope – Syncom – System identification – System on a chip – System on module – Systems analysis –
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Tachometer – Tap (transformer) – Tap changer – Taylor series – Technical drawing – Technology – Telecommunication – Telecommunications cable – Telecommunications engineering – Telecommunications Industry Association – Telecommunications – Telegraph – Telephone balance unit – Telephone line – Telephone – Television – Tellegen's theorem – Temperature – Tensile strength – Tensile stress – Tesla (unit) – Tesla coil – Tetrode – Thermal conductivity – Thermal expansion – Thermionic emission – Thermistor – Thermocouple – Thermodynamic efficiency – Thermodynamics – Thermoelectric effect – Thermostat – Thévenin theorem – Third rail – Three-phase AC railway electrification – Three-phase electric power – Three-phase power – Three-phase – Thyristor drive – Thyristor – Tidal power – Time sharing – Time-invariant system – Timeline of electrical and electronic engineering – Tin – Topology (electrical circuits) – Toroidal inductors and transformers – Torque – Total harmonic distortion (THD) – Traction battery – Traction current – Traction motor – Traction substation – Transatlantic communications cable – Transatlantic telegraph cable – Transceiver – Transducers – Transfer function – Transformer oil testing – Transformer oil – Transformer types – Transformer – Transformerboard – Transient response – Transils – Transistor – Transistors – Transmission (telecommunications) – Transmission line – Transmission system operator – Transmission tower – Transmitter – Traveling-wave tube – Trembler coil – TRIAC – Triangle wave – Trigger transformer – Triode – Trolley pole – Trolleybus – TRW Inc. – Tuned circuit – Twisted pair – Two-phase electric power – Two-port network – Two-sided Laplace transform – Tyco Electronics – Types of capacitor –
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Ubiquitous computing – Ultrasonic motor – Ultrasonics – Undersampling – Underwriters Laboratories – Unijunction transistor – Unipolar motor – University College London – University of Missouri – Unix – Unshielded twisted pair – Upsampling – Utility frequency – Utility pole –
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Vacuum capacitor – Vacuum tube – Variable capacitor – Variable-frequency drive – Variac – Varicap – Variety (cybernetics) – Varistor – Varnish – Vector (geometric) – Vector calculus – Vector control (motor) – Vector group – Vehicle-to-grid – Vehicular automation – Velcro – Versorium – Vibrator (electronic) – Video camera tube – Video game console – Video processing – Virtual instrumentation – Virtual power plant – VLSI – Volt – Voltage compensation – Voltage-controlled amplifier – Voltage controller – Voltage converter – Voltage division – Voltage doubler – Voltage regulation – Voltage regulator – Voltage source – Voltage spike – Voltage – Voltage-to-current converter – Volt-ampere – Voltmeter – Volumetric flow rate –
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War of Currents – Ward Leonard control – Watt – Wattmeter – Waveguide (electromagnetism) – Waveguide – Weber – Welding – Wet Transformer – Whitaker Foundation – Whole-life cost – Wiener filter – Wiener process – Williams tube – Wind farm – Wind power in South Australia – Wind power – Wind speed – Wind turbine – Wire – Wireless network – Wireless telegraphy –
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X-ray –
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Yagi antenna – Yahoo – Y-delta transform –
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Z3 (computer) – z80 – Zener diode – Zigzag transformer – Zilog – Z-transform –
Biographies
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Abramson, Norman – Adams, Comfort A. – Alexanderson, Ernst Airy, George Biddell – Ampère, André-Marie – Yakubovich, Vladimir – Armstrong, Edwin – Ayrton, William Edward – Ashby, William Ross –
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Bardeen, John – Baudot, Emile – Bechtolsheim, Andy – Beckman, Arnold Orville – Bell, Alexander Graham – Bellman, Richard – Bennett, Alfred Rosling – Bláthy, Ottó – Blondel, André – Blumlein, Alan – Bode, Hendrik Wade – Bogoliubov, Nikolay – Boucherot, Paul – Brattain, Walter – Braun, Karl Ferdinand – Brandenburg, Karlheinz – Brown, Charles Eugene Lancelot – Brown, William C. – Bright, Charles Tilston – Bruch, Walter – Brush, Charles F. – Burgess, Charles Frederick –
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Camras, Marvin – Campbell-Swinton, Alan Archibald – Carson, John Renshaw – Clapp, James Kilton – Clarke, Edith – Coolidge, William – Concordia, Charles – Conway, Lynn – Corin, William – Crompton, R. E. B. – Cray, Seymour –
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Darlington, Sidney – Darrieus, George – Davenport, Thomas – De Forest, Lee – de Mestral, Georges – Dennard, Robert H. – Dennis, Jack – Deprez, Marcel – Déri, Miksa – Dibner, Bern – Doherty, Robert – Dolivo-Dobrovolsky, Mikhail – Dolby, Ray – Duddell, William – DuMont, Allen B. –
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Eckert, John Presper – Edison, Thomas – Engelbart, Douglas – Entz, Justus B. – Erlang, Agner Krarup – Espenschied, Lloyd – Evans, Walter R. – Euler, Leonhard –
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Faggin, Federico – Faraday, Michael – Farmer, Moses G. – Farnsworth, Philo T. – Ferranti, Sebastian Ziani de – Ferraris, Galileo – Fessenden, Reginald – Fink, Donald G. – Fischer, Gerhard – Fleming, John Ambrose – Flowers, Thomas – Fontaine, Hippolyte – Forbes, George – Forrester, Jay – Fortescue, Charles Legeyt – Fourier, Jean Baptiste Joseph – Fuller, Leonard F. –
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Gabor, Dennis – Gaulard, Lucien – Gauss, Carl Friedrich – Gilbert, William – Giorgi, Giovanni – Gramme, Zénobe – Gray, Elisha – Grimsdale, Richard – Guillemin, Ernst A. –
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Hadfield, Robert – Hammer, Edward E. – Hartley, Ralph – Halske, Johann Georg – Heaviside, Oliver – Hefner-Alteneck, Friedrich von – Heil, Oskar – Héroult, Paul – Hertz, Heinrich – Hewitt, Peter Cooper – Hewlett, William Reddington – Hoff, Marcian – Hopkinson, Edward – Hopkinson, John – Hopper, Grace – Horowitz, Paul – Houston, Edwin J. – Hirst, Hugo – Hull, Albert – Hyland, Lawrence A. –
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Jenkin, Fleeming – Joy, Bill –
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Kalman, Rudolf – Kando, Kálmán – Keith, Nathaniel S. – Kennelly, Arthur E. – Kettering, Charles – Kilby, Jack – Knoll, Max – Kolmogorov, Andrey – Kraus, John D. – Kroemer, Herbert-- Krylov, Nikolay Mitrofanovich –
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Laithwaite, Eric – Lamarr, Hedy – Lamm, Uno – Lamme, Benjamin G. – Leclanché, Georges – Leeds, Morris E. – Leonard, Harry Ward – Lodygin, Alexander – Lyapunov, Alexander –
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Mäkitalo, Östen – Marconi, Guglielmo – Marsh, Orlando R. – Marx, Erwin Otto – Mauchly, John – Maxwell, James Clerk – Merrill, William Henry – Minorsky, Nicolas – Merz, Charles Hesterman – Metcalfe, Robert – Moll, John L. – Moog, Robert – Moore, Daniel McFarlan –
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Nakamura, Shuji – Nichols, Nathaniel B. – Norton, Edward Lawry – Noyce, Robert – Nyquist, Harry –
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Ohm, Georg – Oliver, Bernard M. – Olsen, Kenneth – Ovshinsky, Stanford R. –
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Packard, David – Park, Robert H. – Parsons, Charles Algernon – Pederson, Donald – Pierce, G. W. – Pontryagin, Lev Semenovich – Pope, Franklin Leonard – Popov, Vasile M. – Poulsen, Valdemar – Preece, William Henry – Pupin, Michael I. –
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Ragazzini, John R. – Ramo, Simon – Ranger, Richard H. – Reeves, Alec – Reis, Johann Philipp – Rickover, Hyman G. – Rogers, Edward S. Sr. – Rosen, Harold – Round, H. J. – Routh, Edward John – Rudenberg, Reinhold –
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Schwendler, Carl Louis – Seebeck, Thomas Johann – Shannon, Claude E. – Shallenberger, Oliver B. – Shockley, William B. – Siedel, Philipp Ludwig – Schouhamer Immink, Kees A. – Siemens, Alexander – Siemens, Carl Wilhelm – Siemens, Ernst Werner von – Smith, Phillip Hagar – Spencer, Percy – Sprague, Frank J. – Stanley, William, Jr. – Starr, Chauncey – Steinmetz, Charles Proteus –
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Tarzian, Sarkes – Taylor, Albert H. – Tellegen, Bernard D. H. – Tesla, Nikola – Thomson, Elihu – Thompson, Silvanus P. – Thomson, William – Thury, René – Tihanyi, Kálmán – Tukey, John –
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Van Depoele, Charles Joseph – Varley, C. F. – Vidmar, Milan – Viterbi, Andrew – Volta, Alessandro – von Lieben, Robert – von Miller, Oskar –
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Wadley, Trevor – Watson-Watt, Robert – Watt, James – Westinghouse, George – Wheatstone, Charles – Wheeler, Harold Alden – Whitaker, Uncas A. – Widlar, Bob – Wiener, Norbert – Wirth, Niklaus – Wozniak, Steve –
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Yablochkov, Pavel – Yagi, Hidetsugu – Yang, Jerry –
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Zames, George – Zobel, Otto Julius – Zuse, Konrad –