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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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Detaylı Bibliyografya
Yazar: Williams, J.B (Yazar)
Müşterek Yazar: SpringerLink (Online service)
Materyal Türü: e-Kitap
Dil:İngilizce
Baskı/Yayın Bilgisi: Cham : Springer International Publishing : 2017.
Imprint: Springer,
Edisyon:1st ed. 2017.
Seri Bilgileri:Popular Science,
Konular:
Online Erişim:Full-text access
İçindekiler:
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Missed opportunities: The beginnings of electronics
  • 3 From Wireless to Radio
  • 4 Seeing by electricity - Development of Television
  • 5 Seeing a hundred miles - Radar
  • 6 The Box - Television takes over
  • 7 Spinning discs - Recorded music
  • 8 The crystal triode - The transistor
  • 9 Pop Music - Youth culture in 1950s and 60s
  • 10 From People to Machines - The Rise of Computers
  • 11 Chips into everything - Integrated Circuits
  • 12 From signboards to screens - Displays
  • 13 Distributing time - Clocks and watches
  • 14 From Desktop to Pocket - Calculators
  • 15 Shrinking computers - microprocessors
  • 16 Instant cooking - Microwave ovens
  • 17 Essentials or toys - Home computers
  • 18 Computers take over the Workplace
  • 19 From Clerks to Xerography - Copiers
  • 20 Shrinking the World - Communication satellites
  • 21 Personal communicators - Mobile phones
  • 22 Going online- The Internet
  • 23 Glass to the rescue - Fibre optics
  • 24 Towards virtual money - Cards, Atms and PoS
  • 25 Saving TV programs - Video Recording
  • 26 Electronics invades photography - Digital Cameras
  • 27 Seeing inside the body - electronics aids medicine
  • 28 Knowing where you are - GPS
  • 29 The Electronics Revolution
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.