Archives:IEEE Archives

IEEE Archives

The IEEE Archives is a relatively small (approximately 15 cubic meters) collection of documents and other archival material that documents the history of IEEE and its predecessor organizations AIEE and IRE. The strongest areas in its collection document the histories of AIEE and IRE, the merger between the two that created IEEE in 1963, and the history of the overall IEEE between 1963 and 1984. The Archives, in general collects the history of the overall institute, and does not seek to collect the history of IEEE's many organizational units, but instead encouraged those units to use the GHN to preserve their material.

The Archives is located at the IEEE Operations Center in Piscataway, New Jersey.

The following is a list of documents or groups of documents from the IEEE Archives that have been scanned and made available on the GHN. Of particular note are a series of files of the AIEE records of prominent early members.

AIEE Documents

AIEE Annual Dinner Program/Menu, 1902

AIEE BOD Annual Reports, 1921-1962

AIEE Conventions, Conferences, Meetings - Programs & Announcements, 1920-25

AIEE History File, 1908-1935

AIEE Pamphlets

AIEE Student EE Digest

Standards Activities of the Institute (AIEE), 1939

IRE Documents

1926 IRE Standards Publication

1948 IRE Standards Publication

Electronics Definitions, Standards Committee (IRE), 1936

Goldsmith articles

IRE Report of the Committee on Standardization, 1915

Misc. IRE Correspondence

RCA Laboratories Booklet

Merger Documents

IEEE Merger Collection

IEEE Documents

IEEE/AIEE Tech Committee Reports

Terman Speech at Annual IEEE Banquet (March 27, 1963)

Misc. Documents

Baird Televisor Documents

Edison Electric Light Sign/Ad

KDKA Letter, 1921

Misc. Radio Memorabilia

Prominent Members

Papers of Edward D. Adams

Papers of William Arnold Anthony

Papers of Bion J. Arnold

Papers of Alexander Graham Bell

Papers of A. W. Berresford

Papers of Charles E. L. Brown

Papers of Charles F. Brush

Papers of E. A. Budde

Papers of John Joseph Carty

Papers of Chas. L. Clarke

Papers of Frank Conrad

Papers of Francis B. Crocker

Papers of Alex Dow

Papers of Louis Duncan

Papers of Gano Dunn

Papers of Thomas Edison

Ellenberger Collection

Papers of L. Emanueli

Papers of W.L.R. Emmet

Papers of G. Faccioli

Papers of Louis A. Ferguson

Papers of Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti

Papers of Cyrus Field

Papers of A.P.M. Fleming

Papers of Ferdinand Foch

Papers of Bancroft Gherardi

Papers of Norvin Green

Papers of George Hamilton

Papers of William Joseph Hammer

Papers of W.H. Harrison

Papers of Rowland R. Hazard

Papers of Oliver Heaviside

Papers of Rudolph E. Hellmund

Papers of Carl Hering

Papers of J.E. Housley

Papers of Edwin J. Houston

Papers of B.D. Hull

Papers of F.L. Hutchinson

Papers of Joseph Allen Johnson

Papers of Nathaniel S. Keith

Papers of Arthur Edwin Kennelly

Papers of Lord Kelvin

Papers of B.G. Lamme

Papers of W.S. Lee

Papers of J.W. Lieb Jr.

Papers of Alexander M. MacCutcheon

Papers of C.O. Mailloux

Papers of Guglielmo Marconi

Papers of T.C. Martin

Papers of Fred Orville McMillan

Papers of George Metcalfe

Papers of Edward B. Meyer

Papers of Farley Osgood

Papers of Antonio Pacinotti

Papers of John C. Parker

Papers of George M. Phelps

Papers of Sir William Pierce

Papers of Franklin L. Pope

Papers of Ralph W. Pope

Papers of George B. Prescott

Papers of Michael I. Pupin

Papers of Donald A. Quarles

Papers of Calvin Windsor Rice

Papers of E.W. Rice

Papers of H.J. Ryan

Papers of R.F. Schuchardt

Papers of Charles F. Scott

Papers of Samuel Sheldon

Papers of E.W. Von Siemens

Papers of H.B. Smith

Papers of Elmer Sperry

Papers of Frank Julian Sprague

Papers of William Stanley

Papers of Charles Proteus Steinmetz

Papers of John Franklin Stevens

Papers of L.B. Stillwell

Papers of Henry G. Stott

Papers of Ambrose Swasey

Papers of Nikola Tesla

Papers of Elihu Thomson

Papers of Silvanus P. Thompson

Papers of Philip Torchio

Papers of Calvert Townley

Papers of R. Vanley

Papers of George Addison Wardlaw

Papers of George Westinghouse

Papers of Schuyler Skaats Wheeler

Papers of William E. Wickenden

Region, Section, and Society Archives

Section Archives

Washington D.C. Section Archives

Historical Publications

Bliss, Louis D., Bliss Electrical School Alumni Address.

Freitag, Harlow, Electrical Engineering: The Second Century Begins, (New York: IEEE Press, 1986)

Friedel, Robert D., Lines and Waves: Faraday, Maxwell And 150 Years Of Electromagnetism, (New York: Center for the History of Electrical Engineering Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 1981).

IEEE Center for the History of Electrical Engineering, Facets: New Perspectivies on the History of Semiconductors, ed. Andrew Goldstein & William Aspray (New Brunswick: IEEE Center for the History of Electrical Engineering, 1997)

IEEE History Center, Sources in Electrical History, vol. 1: Archives and Manuscript Collections in U.S. Repositories.

IEEE History Center, Sources in Electrical History 2: Oral History Collections in U.S. Repositories.

IEEE History Center, Sources in Electrical History 3: An International Guide to Corporate Records and Archives of Companies in the Electrical, Electronics, and Computer Industries.

IEEE Press, "Evolution of the IEEE Logo", in IEEE Student Journal, March 1963, Page 48.

IEEE Press, A Century of Honors: The First One Hundred Years of Award Winners, Honorary Members, Past Presidents, and Fellows of the Institute, (New York: The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, 1984)

IEEE Press, Technological Competitiveness: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives on Electrical, Electronics, and Computer Industries, (Piscataway, NJ: IEEE Press, 1993)

McMahon, A. Michal, The Making of a Profession: A Century of Electrical Engineering in America, (New York: IEEE Press, 1984)

Morton, David L., A History of Electronic Entertainment, (New York: IEEE Press, 1999).

Morton, David, Power: A Survey History of Electric Power Technology Since 1945, (New York: IEEE Press, 2000)

Nebeker, Frederik, Sparks of Genius: Portraits of Electrical Engineering Excellence, Portraits of Electrical Engineering Excellence (Piscataway, NJ: IEEE Press, 1994)

Nebeker, Frederik, Signal Processing: The Emergence of a Discipline, 1948-1998, (Piscataway, NJ: IEEE Press, 1998)

Ryder, John D. and Fink, Donald G., Engineers & Electrons: A Century of Electrical Progress, (New York: IEEE Press, 1983).