That's like the meme that when Harriet Tubman was born, Thomas Jefferson was still alive, and when Harriet Tubman died, Ronald Reagan was alive. The electrical

That's like the meme that when Harriet Tubman was born, Thomas Jefferson was still alive, and when Harriet Tubman died, Ronald Reagan was alive. The electrical engineering equivalent might be that Thomas Edison was born before Faraday died, and Gordon Moore was born before Thomas Edison died, and Gordon Moore is still alive. The modern world is only an eyeblink old in the grand scheme of history.