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ELECTRICAL ENGINEER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A person trained in practical applications of the theory of electricity
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("electrical engineer" is a kind of...):
applied scientist; engineer; technologist (a person who uses scientific knowledge to solve practical problems)
Instance hyponyms:
Bush; Vannevar Bush (United States electrical engineer who designed an early analogue computer and who led the scientific program of the United States during World War II (1890-1974))
De Forest; Father of Radio; Lee De Forest (United States electrical engineer who in 1907 patented the first triode vacuum tube, which made it possible to detect and amplify radio waves (1873-1961))
Dolby; Ray M. Dolby (United States electrical engineer who devised the Dolby system used to reduce background noise in tape recording)
Heaviside; Oliver Heaviside (English physicist and electrical engineer who helped develop telegraphic and telephonic communications; in 1902 (independent of A. E. Kennelly) he suggested the existence of an atmospheric layer that reflects radio waves back to earth (1850-1925))
A. E. Kennelly; Arthur Edwin Kennelly; Kennelly (United States electrical engineer noted for his work on the theory of alternating currents; independently of Oliver Heaviside he discovered the existence of an atmospheric layer that reflects radio waves back to earth (1861-1939))
Guglielmo Marconi; Marconi (Italian electrical engineer who invented wireless telegraphy and in 1901 transmitted radio signals across the Atlantic Ocean (1874-1937))
Ernst Werner von Siemens; Siemens (German electrical engineer (1816-1892))
Clive Sinclair; Sinclair; Sir Clive Marles Sinclair (English electrical engineer who founded a company that introduced many innovative products (born in 1940))
Charles Proteus Steinmetz; Steinmetz (United States electrical engineer and inventor (born in Germany) (1865-1923))
Nikola Tesla; Tesla (United States electrical engineer and inventor (born in Croatia but of Serbian descent) who discovered the principles of alternating currents and developed the first alternating-current induction motor and the Tesla coil and several forms of oscillators (1856-1943))
Elihu Thomson; Thomson (United States electrical engineer (born in England) who in 1892 formed a company with Thomas Edison (1853-1937))
