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The Electronics Revolution Inventing the Future /

This book is about how electronics, computing, and telecommunications have profoundly changed our lives - the way we work, live, and play. It covers a myriad of topics from the invention of the fundamental devices, and integrated circuits, through radio and television, to computers, mobile telephone...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Williams, J.B (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: e-Book
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : 2017.
Imprint: Springer,
Edition:1st ed. 2017.
Series:Popular Science,
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Online Access:Full-text access
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Summary:This book is about how electronics, computing, and telecommunications have profoundly changed our lives - the way we work, live, and play. It covers a myriad of topics from the invention of the fundamental devices, and integrated circuits, through radio and television, to computers, mobile telephones and GPS. Today our lives are ruled by electronics as they control the home and computers dominate the workspace. We walk around with mobile phones and communicate by email. Electronics didn't exist until into the twentieth century. The industrial revolution is the term usually applied to the coming of steam, railways and the factory system. In the twentieth century, it is electronics that has changed the way we gather our information, entertain ourselves, communicate and work. This book demonstrates that this is, in fact, another revolution. .
Physical Description:X, 286 p. 68 illus., 4 illus. in color. online resource.
ISBN:9783319490885
ISSN:2626-6121
DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-49088-5