THE ELECTRIC CITY IS SPECIAL

Westinghouse first factory
Monitor turret 8 inches thick made by Clute brothers
Schenectady is the only city with this name in the world
Birthplace OF THE GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
Birthplace of Industrial Research
Development of Ductile Tungsten
Development of" A" Line Mazda Screw Base Lamps (world standard). X-Ray Tube
First Practical Radio Transmission System
Cloud Seeded, Artificial Rain
First Saturable Reactor Animated Controlled Display Sign
Man-made Lightning
Metal Vacuum Tubes
Artificial Diamonds.
Talking Motion Pictures (Mary Pickford)
Laser Diodes
Electrodeless Lamp Technology
TV in Home
TV in Theater
Facsimile - Demonstrated Coast-to-Coast in the 1920's
First Voice Communication with Moon- (Outer Space)
Amplidyne Invented
Hermetically Sealed Domestic Refrigerator
Defect-free Silicon
Moly, Tungsten and Other Noble Metal Deposition Technology
Silly Putty
Early locomotive manufacturing
First Train Service - Albany to Scheneclady, 1831.
First Trash Service
Microwave tube invented by Albert Hull, 1921
Magnetron based sonar - Charles Rice
Magnetron based radar - Charles Rice
Kenotron vacuum diode
Photon vacuum triode
Birthplace of Industrial Electronics
Birthplace of Supermarket
Birthplace of Subway
First atomic power generator connected to Niagara Mohawk for public utility in 1955
Electronic violin
1924 Electrocardiograph
GE-MOV
Mercury vapor arc lamp
Nichrome
Calrod - C. C. Abbot, 1920
Automated lighting controls (Building 37, also World's Fairs)
SCR 1957 and Triac/Diacs followed
GE first transistor radio - Syracuse
GE first LEDs - Syracuse
Gemini fuel cell
Selsyn
Birthplace of Westinghouse
Westinghouse, Steinmetz, Alexanderson and Coolidge interred in Vale Cemetery
Union College
"Home Sweet Home", John Howard Payne
Steinmetz Electric Car
President Chester Arthur
President Jimmy Carter
Sec. of State William Seward
First Electrical Engineering School
First Scheduled Radio Station in the World (before KDKA)
First Mobile Radio Transmission
Nott Stoves
Dr. Nott was a very special person. Born in Connecticut in 1773~ he died in Schenectady and is buried in the Union College plot of Vale Cemetery, off of Nott Terrace. He first became a school minister, moving to an Albany church in t 798 at which time Union was four years old. He became known to the political leaders of the time and in 1804 became the fourth president of Union, which had been founded in 1795. He was also president RPI - initially a trade school, from 1829 to 1845, while still being president of Union. In 1841 he started a course in technology and the civil engineering course in 1845. From 1832-39 he bad 30 patents on his revolutionary bard coal burning stove. He selected the present campus site "out in the country" and its famed architect.
1888 Van Depoele first carbon brush eliminating wear and arching of copper-to-copper
sliding contacts
1895 first electric locomotive for underground use
1897 Sprague multiple electric street cars with independent controls
Curtis Turbine of 1900 6700 HP
1908 Panama Canal Project
1905 Whitney metalized filament
1907 Twice carbon lamp performance with tungsten
1904 "Magnetite" arc lamp improves arc lamp efficiency by 2 times
1908 first motor for ship propulsion
1913 Langmuir's gas lamps doubled lamp efficiency
1921 First one-megawatt transceiver experiments
First electric elevators
Thomson from1879-1885 developed transformers connected in parallel making possible AC systems with "grounded secondary". This development plus J. P. Morgan's pressure in forming GE is what pushed Edison out of the picture. Also, the management skills of Mr. Coffin helped to provide the leadership leading to GE and he as first president.
On Mardi 20, 1886 William Stanley provided alternating current electrification to offices and stores on Main S1reet in Great Barrington, Mass. He thus demonstrated the first practical system for providing eleclrical illumination using AC wi1h 1ransformers to adjust voltage levels of the distribution system.
Lynn River Works made "Historical Landmark" by American Society of Metals. First Jet Engine was produced at OE Lynn in 1942. Also first lighted baseball game in Lynn in 1924.
Henry Ford worked for Edison in 1893.
In 1920's Henry Ford was the leading distributor of motion pictures!
Consider adding Troy's first foundry - Troy Air Furnace? - 18 t 8
Consider adding Gurley Instruments - founded in Troy about 1825
Joseph Henry was given an honorary degree by Union College in 1829. The unit of inductance is named after him! Some consider his work to be ahead of Faraday.
Thomas Edison received his first honorary degree from Union College in 1878.
Charles Steinmetz received a PhD From Union College in 1903
There are 15,400 museums listed on the Internet, 54 museum associations, and 1200 museum vendors. The Encyclopedia of Associations (2004 edition) lists 23,000 societies and associations (published by Gale Research).
The Association Science-Technology Centers Travel Passport Program has 282 participating organizations.
There are over 10 million engineers, many more hobbyists and students.
There are more than 5 million GE shareowners, employees, retirees and associates of OE Capital.
In a search of the Internet we have found many organizations in the areas of Science, Technology and innovation, but no other organization that has as its focus the engineering profession.