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Welcome to the second installment of “Meet the Editorial Board.” We are delighted to introduce you to some more members of the IEEE Technology and Society Magazine’s editorial board. If you missed the first installment of this series, please check out the March 2024 issue of the magazine. In this first piece, we talked about how our associate editors contribute to broader academic research and societal good through their work on technology and societal issues. Here we will discuss their contributions to civil society, scholarship, and service to the magazine. Academic editing seems pretty distant from pressing social concerns. However, we submit that the work of the magazine, and our parent society, the IEEE Society for the Social Implications of Technology, is vital to identifying and promoting workable solutions for our most critical social challenges. The interdisciplinary approaches that we highlight, and the interdisciplinary board that we introduce here, use a critical lens to evaluate technological and social solutions. We take a little space here to introduce you to more of the hard-working people who make this magazine work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Presents reviews for the following list of books, The Northeast Corridor—David Alff (Chicago, IL, USA: Univ. Chicago Press, 2024, 283 pp.). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Presents reviews for the following list of books, The Science of Life and Death in Frankenstein—Sharon Ruston (Oxford, U.K.: Bodleian Library, 2021, 152 pp.). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In 2022, a number of literary critics observed that exactly 100 years had elapsed since 1922, the year that Ezra Pound had once proclaimed as “Year one of a new era.” He was doubtless referring to the publication of T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land as well as James Joyce’s Ulysses. It was the year that Einstein won the Nobel Prize in physics. Not generally noted, but certainly of social importance was the entry of the BBC into the world of radio broadcasting—a major event in the shaping of culture in Great Britain. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This book consists of a long history of how electric lines (power, telephone, and telegraph) and the poles and towers supporting them have engaged the attention of poets, essayists, conservationists, artists, and politicians. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A course for liberal arts students on the engineering and physics of radio is described. An historical presentation of the subject is given in the classroom. The course is suitable as part of the science requirement in university general education curricula and can serve as a model for how, using history, electrical engineering can be taught to students majoring in the liberal arts. Index Terms - Electrical engineering education, history, liberal arts, radio, technology.

The conventional, small, monopole antenna is sometimes modified and bent into the shape of an inverted L. The inverted L antenna displays less capacitive reactance and higher radiation resistance than the monopole. Using a novel method, we derive a formula for the input impedance of the inverted L antenna. The technique involves extending the conventional Pocklington integral equation and the use of the antenna's effective length. The method can be adapted to other electrically small antennas.