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Eastern Interconnection

The Eastern Interconnection is the North American power grid covering everything east of the Rocky Mountains except most of Texas and Quebec, running at a synchronized 60 Hz.

Eastern Siberia–Pacific Ocean Oil Pipeline

The Eastern Siberia–Pacific Ocean (ESPO; Russian: ВСТО) pipeline connects Siberian oil fields to the Pacific port of Kozmino, with ESPO-1 completed in 2009 and ESPO-2 in 2012.

Eastern span replacement of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge

The eastern span replacement of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge replaced the seismically vulnerable eastern half with a new skyway and self-anchored suspension bridge, opened in 2013.

Eastern Suburbs & Illawarra Line

The Eastern Suburbs & Illawarra Line, also called the Illawarra Railway Line, is Sydney Trains' T4 service from Bondi Junction to Hurstville, Waterfall, and Cronulla.

Eastern Telegraph Company

The Eastern Telegraph Company was a British submarine telegraph operator formed in 1872 by John Pender, growing into the world's largest cable company and the ancestor of Cable & Wireless.

Eastlake Power Plant

The Eastlake Power Plant was a coal-fired power plant in Eastlake, Ohio, owned by FirstEnergy, whose Unit 5 trip helped trigger the 2003 North American blackout.

Eastleigh Works

Eastleigh Works, also known as Eastleigh railway works, was the London and South Western Railway's locomotive works in Hampshire, which built 314 steam locomotives before closing in 2006.

Eastman Chemical Company

Eastman Chemical Company, originally Tennessee Eastman, is an American specialty materials company in Kingsport, Tennessee, founded in 1920 and spun off from Eastman Kodak in 1993.

Eastman tunnel

The Eastman tunnel, or Hennepin Island tunnel, was a tailrace tunnel at St. Anthony Falls in Minneapolis whose collapse in 1869 nearly destroyed the falls.

EastMed Pipeline

The EastMed Pipeline is a proposed natural gas pipeline, about 1,900 kilometers long, that would carry gas from Israel and Cyprus to Greece and onward to Europe.

Eastnor Castle

Eastnor Castle, near Ledbury, Herefordshire, is a Grade I listed neo-Norman country house built 1811–c1820 by Robert Smirke for the 1st Earl Somers, home of the Hervey-Bathurst family, set in a 5,000-acre estate with Grade II registered park.

Easton Sports

Easton Sports was an American sports equipment company, active from 1985 to 2014, that grew out of a 1922 archery business and became a major maker of aluminum baseball bats and hockey sticks.

Easy Approach to Requirements Syntax

Easy Approach to Requirements Syntax (EARS) is a lightweight notation for writing system requirements in plain English using a few keywords, developed at Rolls-Royce and first published in 2009.

Easy bake oven

Easy-Bake Oven, Kenner's 1963 light-bulb-powered toy oven, now a Hasbro brand; two 100-watt bulbs heated it, 500,000 sold in year one, 2007 million-unit recall, 2025 Walmart relaunch.

EasyJet

EasyJet is a British low-cost airline founded by Stelios Haji-Ioannou in 1995, operating point-to-point scheduled flights across Europe and ranking among the continent's largest carriers by seat capacity.

EasyJet Flight 6074

EasyJet Flight 6074 (U2-6074) was an easyJet Airbus A319 flight from Alicante to Bristol that suffered total electrical failure in cruise near Nantes, France, on 15 September 2006.

EasyMile

EasyMile is a French autonomous-vehicle company founded in 2014 in Toulouse, known for its EZ10 driverless shuttle and autonomous software for airports and industrial sites.

Eating your own dog food

Eating your own dog food, or dogfooding, is the practice of a company using its own product internally as a customer would, to expose defects before release.

Eaton Corporation

Eaton Corporation is an Irish-incorporated power management company that designs and manufactures electrical, aerospace, and vehicle power systems, founded in 1911 and serving customers in 180 countries.

Eaton Hall, Cheshire

Eaton Hall, the Cheshire country house of the Grosvenor family, Dukes of Westminster, has had four successive houses since 1675; the present one dates from 1971.

Eau de Cologne

Eau de Cologne, or Kölnisch Wasser, is a lightly concentrated citrus fragrance created in Cologne in 1709 by the Italian perfumer Johann Maria Farina, later the generic name for dilute fresh fragrances.

Eau de Paris

Eau de Paris is the public water company of the City of Paris, serving about 3 million users and operating the service since January 2010.

Eau de toilette

Eau de toilette, also called toilet water, is an alcohol-based fragrance with 5 to 15 percent perfume oil, between eau de cologne and eau de parfum in strength.

Eaves

Eaves are the edges of a roof that overhang a building's exterior walls, moving runoff clear of the siding and shading windows; the sloped gable edges are the rake.

Eavor

Eavor is a Calgary-based geothermal energy company that develops the Eavor-Loop, a closed-loop geothermal system first fed into the public grid in Geretsried, Germany, in December 2025.

Ebang International Holdings

Ebang International Holdings is a Cayman Islands holding company, Nasdaq-listed since 2020, founded by Dong Hu and known for its Ebit Bitcoin mining machines before shifting to renewable energy and financial services.

Ebara Corporation

Ebara Corporation is a Japanese machinery manufacturer headquartered in Ota-ku, Tokyo, established in 1920, that makes pumps, compressors, turbines, and semiconductor equipment such as CMP systems.

EBay

eBay is an American e-commerce company, founded by Pierre Omidyar in 1995 as the auction site AuctionWeb, that runs an online marketplace serving about 135 million active buyers.

Ebbe Sloth Andersen

Ebbe Sloth Andersen is a Danish bioengineer at Aarhus University known for the 2009 DNA origami box with a controllable lid and for inventing RNA origami.

EBCDIC

EBCDIC, or Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code, is an 8-bit character encoding developed by IBM in 1963 and still used on IBM mainframe systems.