EE heroes and happenings: A philatelic review: The impending issuance of four new stamps prompts a retrospective look at electrotechnology from the philatelist's viewpoint

Innumerable engineers and scientists have combined their professional interests and a fascinating hobby into a unified educational pastime. They collect stamps that are related to science and technology. Some of us have narrowed that collecting interest into a more specific area, such as telecommunications or power engineering. Others have broadened it to include mathematics, biology, medicine, and the like.