He was active in the planning and construction of New York City’s subway system, and in the electrification of Grand Central Terminal. Sprague developed automatic signal and brake control for railroads, and an auxiliary train control to take charge if the driver made a mistake. In addition to his developments in electric traction, Sprague made enormous contributions in the areas of control and safety, without which mass transit would not be possible. The Birth of Electric Traction: The Extraordinary Life of Inventor Frank Julian Spragueby Frank Rowsome Jr., available in paperback and Kindle® editions.įrank Julian Sprague has often been called the inventor of public transportation. Told by company insider John Sprague, it gives the reader a front-row seat. It is the story of corporate success.and a tale of what to avoid. Sprague Electric's business and technological history serves as a lens for thousands of companies all over the world. Yet today, many former Sprague Electric business units thrive as successful parts of other corporations. It then declined, went through a series of acquisitions, and eventually dissolved. Sprague Electric Company rose to become a thriving manufacturer employing thousands of workers, and building a broad product line with international sales and a reputation for the highest quality.
The rise of the Sprague Electric Company from a kitchen-table high-tech startup is representative of much of the U.S. Sprague Electric: An Electronic Giant's Rise, Fall, and Life after Death by John L. Sprague Electric: An Electronics Giant's Rise, Fall, and Life after Death This book commemorates the dedication in December 2015 of a Milestone in Electrical Engineering and Computing by IEEE at the University of Florence in commemoration of Fermi's contribution. The two original 1926 papers are reproduced in full in this book. The Fermi-Dirac statistics were a fundamental contribution to semiconductor physics and to the development of electronics. Nobel laureate Enrico Fermi developed the quantum statistics that would be named after him while teaching at the School of Engineering of the University of Florence.
As part of its mission to bring the history of technology to a wide audience, the IEEE History Center publishes books as well as journal articles.Įnrico Fermi's Semiconductor Milestone in Florence
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