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* 1922 [[John Somerville Highfield]].<ref>The Engineer 1922/06/09</ref> | * 1922 [[John Somerville Highfield]].<ref>The Engineer 1922/06/09</ref> | ||
* 1922 [[Frank Gill]].<ref>The Engineer 1922/11/24</ref> | |||
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Revision as of 13:52, 8 December 2014
The Institution of Electrical Engineers or IEE was a British professional organisation for electronics, electrical, manufacturing and IT professionals.
1871 May 17th. The fore-runner of the IEE was the Society of Telegraph Engineers (STE) which came formally into existence at a meeting held in 2 Westminster Chambers, Victoria Street, London. The prime mover in this endeavour was Major Frank Bolton. He had been made an unattached major as a reward for his services to army signalling in 1868. At the first meeting Bolton and seven others attended. They appointed a President (Charles William Siemens 1823-1883), two vice-Presidents (Lord Lindsay 1847-1913 and Frank Ives Scudamore 1823-1884), a Council of eleven members, a Treasurer and Librarian, an Honorary Secretary (Frank Bolton) and two Auditors.
At the General Meeting of the STE on 22 December 1880 it was decided to alter the title to reflect the changes in electrical technology of the day and was renamed The Society of Telegraph Engineers and of Electricians. At a meeting of the Council on 10 November 1887 a motion was put forward to alter the name to the Institution of Electrical Engineers to reflect its representation of the body of electrical engineers in England. On 1 January 1889 the Register of Joint Stock Companies issued his Certificate of Incorporation to the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE).
In 2006 it merged with the IIE to form the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET).
Past Presidents
- 1872 Sir Charles William Siemens FRS
- 1873 Frank Ives Scudamore CB
- 1874 Sir William Thomson (Baron Kelvin of Largs) OM GCVO FRS
- 1875 Josiah Latimer Clark FRS
- 1876 Charles Vincent Walker FRS
- 1877 Sir Frederick Augustus Abel Bt KCB GCVO FRS
- 1878 Sir Charles William Siemens FRS
- 1879 Lieut-Colonel Sir John Underwood Bateman-Champain KCMG RE
- 1880 Sir William Henry Preece KCB FRS
- 1881 George Carey Foster FRS
- 1882 Major-General Charles Edmund Webber CB RE
- 1883 Willoughby Smith
- 1884 William Grylls Adams FRS
- 1885 Charles Ernest Paolo Della Diana Spagnoletti FRS
- 1886 David Edward Hughes FRS
- 1887 Sir Charles Tilston Bright
- 1888 Edward Graves
- 1889 Sir William Thomson (Baron Kelvin of Largs)
- 1890 John Hopkinson (1849 - 1898) FRS
- 1891 Sir William Crookes OM FRS
- 1892 William Edward Ayrton FRS
- 1893 Sir William Henry Preece KCB FRS
- 1894 Alexander Siemens
- 1895 Colonel Rookes Evelyn Bell Crompton CB FRS
- 1896 John Hopkinson FRS
- 1897 Sir Henry Christopher Mance CIE
- 1898 Sir Joseph Wilson Swan FRS
- 1899 Silvanus Phillips Thompson FRS
- 1900 John Perry FRS
- 1914 Sir John Snell.[1]
- 1915 C. P. Sparks.[2]
- 1918 Charles Henry Wordingham[3]
- 1921 L. B. Atkinson.
- 1922 John Somerville Highfield.[4]
- 1922 Frank Gill.[5]