(1) IN the summer of 1850 a smali party of engineers arrived at Dover in order to lay a cable across the Channel. One of them-Willoughby Smith, who was afterwards president of the Institution of ...

Imagine a world without the glow of your screen, the hum of your fridge, or the instant communication across continents.

THE electrical engineer who wishes to keep pace with the development of his profession and desires to know something more than that which concerns only the particular branch in which he is engaged has ...

After a year of trial and error, Liyang Chen had managed to whittle down a metallic wire into a microscopic strand half the width of an E.coli bacterium — just thin enough to allow a trickle of ...

Microscopic aspects of ferroelectricity are canonically related to polar atomic displacements that break inversion symmetry of the crystal, leading to a non-zero net electric dipole moment. However, ...