Today in History - November 14, 1985 - Fullerenes were first introduced in the journal Nature,. Earlier in September during 11 days of collaborative research, Robert F. Curl, Jr., Richard Smalley and Sir Harold W. Kroto discovered the first fullerene, C60, a spherical cluster of carbon atoms. The discovery was coined buckminsterfullerenes or buckyballs after [...]

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Today in History- September 30, 1935 - Dedication of Hoover Dam, Boulder City, Nevada. The concrete-arch dam, originally called Boulder Dam, supplied the first U.S. hydroelectric plant to produce over a million kilowatts. Hoover Dam serves Nevada and the Los Angeles area.
Hoover Dam was built at the height of the Depression and provided thousands of [...]

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Today in History - April 20, 1940 - RCA Demonstrates Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM). The history of the SEM begins in 1928 and RCA’s demonstration in 1940. In 1965 the first SEM was marketed by the Cambridge Instrument Company. The provided link includes an article that details the history of the SEM from 1928 to [...]

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Today in History – April 17, 1986 – first publication of High T-C Superconductivity in Ceramic. A breakthrough discovery was made in the field of superconductivity. Alex Müller and Georg Bednorz, researchers at the IBM Research Laboratory in Rüschlikon, Switzerland, created a brittle ceramic compound that superconducted at the highest temperature then known: 30 [...]

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Engineers in Action Thumbnails. Click on image for catalog record.

Technology Thumbnails. Click on image for catalog record.
The Engineering Pathway has initiated a photo competition to highlight image thumbnails of its cataloged resources. The higher education Disciplinary Community pages will have two of these images at the top — one action image of people [...]

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