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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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| Materyal Türü: | e-Kitap |
| Dil: | İngilizce |
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Springer International Publishing :
2017.
Imprint: Springer, |
| Edisyon: | 1st ed. 2017. |
| Seri Bilgileri: | Popular Science,
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| 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.