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Elisha Gray
Elisha Gray was an American electrical engineer and inventor who co-founded the company that became Western Electric and filed a telephone caveat hours apart from Bell's 1876 patent application.
Elisha Gray and Alexander Bell telephone controversy
The Elisha Gray and Alexander Bell telephone controversy, or Bell-Gray controversy, is the dispute over who invented the telephone, sparked by same-day patent filings in February 1876.
Elisha Otis
Elisha Otis, or Elisha Graves Otis (1811–1861), was an American inventor whose 1854 demonstration of the elevator safety brake made passenger elevators safe and accepted.
EliteBus
EliteBus is a satellite bus product line developed by Thales Alenia Space in France for telecommunications constellations, serving as the common platform for second-generation Globalstar, O3b, and Iridium NEXT.
Elixir (programming language)
Elixir, also known as the Elixir language, is a dynamic, functional programming language created by José Valim in 2012, running on the Erlang virtual machine for scalable, fault-tolerant applications.
Eliyahou Harari
Eliyahou (Eli) Harari is a physicist and entrepreneur who invented the first practical floating-gate EEPROM, co-founded SanDisk in 1988, and led it as chief executive until 2010.
Eliyahu M. Goldratt
Eliyahu M. Goldratt was an Israeli physicist, management consultant, and author who created the Theory of Constraints and introduced it through his 1984 business novel The Goal.
ELIZA
ELIZA, also known as Eliza AI, is a natural language conversation program written by Joseph Weizenbaum at MIT and published in 1966, usually considered the first chatbot.
ELIZA effect
The ELIZA effect is the tendency to attribute human-like understanding, intention, or feeling to computer programs even when users know they follow simple rules, named for the 1966 MIT chatbot ELIZA by Joseph Weizenbaum.
Elizabeth C. Wayne
Elizabeth C. Wayne is an American biomedical engineer who repurposes macrophages as drug delivery vehicles and living biosensors, and teaches bioengineering at the University of Washington.
Elizabeth City State University
Elizabeth City State University (ECSU), founded 1891 in Elizabeth City, NC, is a public historically black university in the UNC System, known for North Carolina's only four-year Aviation Science degree program and NC Promise tuition.
Elizabeth Diller
Elizabeth Diller is an American architect and artist, co-founding partner of the New York studio Diller Scofidio + Renfro, known for the High Line, the Blur Building, and The Shed.
Elizabeth line
The Elizabeth line, also known as the Crossrail line, is a commuter railway in London that opened in May 2022, running from Reading and Heathrow to Shenfield and Abbey Wood.
Elizabeth S. Sattely
Elizabeth S. Sattely is a chemical engineer, Associate Professor at Stanford University, and HHMI Investigator known for engineering plant metabolic pathways that make drug-like molecules.
Elk Creek NGL Pipeline
The Elk Creek NGL Pipeline is a 900-mile pipeline owned by ONEOK that carries natural gas liquids from the Williston Basin in Montana to Bushton, Kansas, completed in 2019.
Elk Hills Oil Field
The Elk Hills Oil Field is a large oil and gas field in Kern County, California, once Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 1 and sold to Occidental Petroleum in 1998.
Elk Valley Resources
Elk Valley Resources is a Canadian steelmaking coal producer operating four mines in the Elk Valley of southeastern British Columbia, majority owned by Glencore since 2024.
Elkem
Elkem ASA is a Norwegian industrial company founded by Sam Eyde in 1904, producing silicon products, ferrosilicon alloys, and carbon materials from quartz mining through smelting.
Elkview Coal Mine
The Elkview Coal Mine, officially Elkview Operations, is an open-pit steelmaking coal mine in British Columbia's Elk Valley near Sparwood, opened in 1969 and operated by Elk Valley Resources.
Ella Stewart Udall
Ella Stewart Udall, born Eliza Luella Stewart, was an American Mormon pioneer who became Arizona Territory's first telegraph operator at Pipe Spring in December 1871, aged 16.
Ellen Dunham-Jones
Ellen Dunham-Jones is an American architect and urbanist, a professor at Georgia Tech, who with June Williamson wrote Retrofitting Suburbia and maintains a database of over 2,500 suburban retrofit projects.
Ellen Ochoa
Ellen Lauri Ochoa, born 1958, is an American engineer and NASA astronaut who became the first Hispanic woman in space in 1993 and later directed the Johnson Space Center.
Ellen Pao
Ellen Kangru Pao, born 1970, is an American lawyer and investor known as Reddit's former interim CEO and for a landmark gender discrimination lawsuit against Kleiner Perkins.
Elliot Douglas
Elliot P. Douglas is an American materials scientist and engineering-education researcher at the University of Florida, honored with a 1997 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.
Elliot Handler
Elliot Handler was an American toy designer and business executive who co-founded Mattel with his wife Ruth in 1945 and created Hot Wheels, introduced in 1968.
Elliot L. Chaikof
Elliot L. Chaikof is an American vascular surgeon and bioengineer serving as Surgeon-in-Chief at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Johnson and Johnson Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School.
Elliot Moore II
Elliot Moore II is an American electrical and computer engineer and associate professor at Georgia Tech whose voice signal processing research targets depression, aphasia, and Alzheimer's disease.
Elliot See
Elliot See was an American NASA astronaut selected in 1962, named command pilot for Gemini IX but killed in a 1966 jet crash before flying in space.
Elliott Brothers (computers)
Elliott Brothers (London) Ltd was a British instrument-making firm that became one of the UK's earliest computer makers, supplying 50 percent of Britain's 1961 digital computers.
Elliott Hawkes
Elliott Hawkes is a roboticist and Associate Professor at UC Santa Barbara. His work focuses on bio-inspired robots, such as vine robots and a record-setting jumping robot.