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Electrical engineering   /ɪlˈɛktrɪkəl ˈɛndʒənˈɪrɪŋ/   Listen
Electrical engineering

noun
1.
The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.  Synonym: EE.






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"Electrical engineering" Quotes from Famous Books



... great national factory, this great national organisation of labour, planned, indeed, primarily to make war material, but convertible with the utmost ease to the purposes of automobile manufacture, to transit reconstruction, to electrical engineering, and endless such uses. ...
— What is Coming? • H. G. Wells

... SANDELL, twenty-five years of age, single, of Surrey, England, studied electrical engineering for some years and then came to Australia in 1909 and entered the Commonwealth Branch of Telephony. Having a practical knowledge of wireless telegraphy he joined the Expedition as a Wireless Operator and Mechanic and was stationed with the Macquarie Island Party for two years. ...
— The Home of the Blizzard • Douglas Mawson

... writer from whom we are quoting recognises this himself; for he gives his special attention to the economic position of those who, in greater or less degree, are endowed with what he calls "genius"; and in order to illustrate how socialism would deal with these, he cites two cases from the annals of electrical engineering, in which opportunities, not forthcoming otherwise, were given by the state to inventors of ...
— A Critical Examination of Socialism • William Hurrell Mallock



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