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Electronics History - Origin
and Development of Electronics:
Today in the twenty first
century, many consumer, military, and recreational products
are
made with electronic devices.
Perhaps, in the future we will
see even more uses of Electronics. Almost all phases of
modern technological society use Electronics, even this
computer that is being used to type this script.
The home,
car, or the workplace all use Electronics. We all use
Electronics but very few know the complex history behind
Electronics. The purpose of this site is to explain the
history, origin and development of Electronics.
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It is important to know the History of Electronics
(technology) so students better understand their electronic
gadgets they use everyday on an increasing bases. That is,
cell phones, ATMs, calculators, cars, fax machines,
computers, copiers, radios, TV, etc.
To understand the
interesting history of these electronic devices helps
explain why science and technology are important, too.
Without these technologies and electronics, our status in
the world community would be diminished, therefore it is
important to study the history of electronics, science and
technology.
The historical approach to Electronics is a real task
because of the tremendous amount of material that must be
sorted through. Electronics is a vast sea of scientific
information.
I will try my best to explain the origin,
history and development of electronics here.
Electronics History ( 1745 – 1996)
Here I explain the history, origin
and development of electronics and technology and some great
inventions and contribution of some of the greatest
scientists and inventors of all times.
Cuneus and Muschenbrock,
in Leyden (Netherlands), discovered the Leyden jar in 1745.
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Inventions and
Contribution of
Cuneus and Muschenbrock to Electronics
Ben Franklin (1746-52 )
flew kites to demonstrate that lightning is a
form of static electricity (ESD). Read More on
Inventions and Contribution of
Ben Franklin to Electronics
Charles Augustus
Coulomb (1736-1806) invented the torsion
balance in 1785.
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Inventions and
Contribution of
Charles Augustus
Coulomb
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In is 1800 Count Alessandro Volta
(1745-1827)
announced the results of his experiments
investigation Galvani's claims about the source of electricity in
the frog leg experiment.
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Inventions and
Contribution of
Count Alessandro Volta
to Electronics
In the year 1820
Hans Christian Oersted (1777-1851) in
Denmark demonstrated a relationship between electricity and
magnetism by showing that an electrical wire carrying a current will
deflect a magnetic needle.
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Inventions and
Contribution of
Hans Christian Oersted
to Electronics
1822-27 André Marie
Ampère (1775-1836) in France gave a
formalized understanding of the relationships between electricity
and magnetism using algebra.
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Inventions and Contribution of
André Marie Ampère
to Electronics
1826 George Simon
Ohm (1787-1854) wanted to measure the
motive force of electrical currents .
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Contribution of
George Simon Ohm
to Electronics
Michael Faraday
(1791-1867). 1820s
Faraday postulated that an electrical current moving through a wire
creates "fields of force" surrounding the wire.
1821 Faraday built the first electric
motor--a device for transforming an electrical current into rotary
motion.
1331 Faraday made
the first transformer.
The
unit of capacitance is named after him.
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Inventions and
Contribution of
Michael Faraday
to
Electronics
Karl Friedrich
Gauss (1777-1855) Wilhelm Eduard
Weber (1804-1891). Gauss is known as one
of the greatest mathematicians of all time.
The CGS unit of magnetic field density in named after Gauss.
Weber, a German physicist, also established a system of
absolute electrical units.
The MKS unit of flux is named after Weber.
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Inventions and
Contribution of
Karl Friedrich
Gauss and Wilhelm Eduard
Weber
to Electronics
Joseph Henry (1799-1878) was a professor in a small school in
Albany, New York.
In 1830 he observed electromagnetic
induction, a year before Faraday. The unit of induction is
named after him.
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Inventions and
Contribution of
Joseph Henry
to Electronics
1832 Heinrich F.E.
Lenz (1804-1865), born in the old
university city of Tartu, Estonia (then in Russia), was a professor
at the University of St. Petersburg who carried out many experiments
following the lead of Faraday.
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Inventions and
Contribution of
Heinrich F.E.
Lenz
to Electronics
Samuel Finley Breese Morse
(1791 - 1872)
brought a practical system of telegraphy to the fore front using
electromagnets, and invented the code named after him in 1844.
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Inventions and
Contribution of
Samuel Finley Breese Morse
to Electronics
Gustav Robert
Kirchhoff
(1824-1887) was a German
physicist.
He announced the laws which allow calculation of the
currents, voltages, and resistance of electrical networks in 1845
when he was only 21.
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Inventions and Contribution of
Gustav Robert
Kirchhoff
to Electronics
James Clerk Maxwell
(1831 - 1879) wrote a mathematical
treatise formalizing the theory of fields in 1856: On
Faraday's Lines of Force. In the year 1873
Maxwell published Electricity and
Magnetism, demonstrating four partial differential equations
that completely described electrical phenomena.
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Inventions and
Contribution of
James Clerk Maxwell
to
Electronics
Hermann Lud-wig Ferdinand von Helmholtz
(1821 -
1894) was an all around universal scientist and researcher.
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Inventions and
Contribution of
Hermann Lud-wig Ferdinand von Helmholtz
to Electronics
Sir William Crookes
(1832 - 1919) investigated electrical
discharges through highly evacuated "Crookes tubes" in the
year
1878.
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Inventions and Contribution of
Sir William Crookes
to Electronics
Joseph Wilson Swan
(1828 - 1914) Joseph
Swan demonstrated his electric lamp in Britain in February 1879.
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Inventions and
Contribution of
Joseph Wilson Swan
to Electronics
Thomas Alva Edison
(1847 - 1931): In 1878, Edison began work
on an electric lamp and sought a material that could be electrically
heated to incandescence in a vacuum. 1882
Edison installed the first large central power station on Pearl
Street in New York City in 1882; its steam-driven generators of 900
horsepower provided enough power for 7,200 lamps.
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Inventions and
Contribution of
Thomas Alva Edison
to Electronics
Oliver Heaviside
(1850 - 1925) Worked with Maxwell's
equations to reduce the fatigue incurred in solving them.
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Inventions and
Contribution of
liver Heaviside
to
Electronics
Heinrich Rudolph
Hertz (1857 - 1894) was the first person
to demonstrate the existence of radio waves.
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Inventions and Contribution of
Heinrich Rudolph
Hertz
to Electronics
Nikola Tesla
(1856 - 1943) devised the polyphase
alternating-current systems that form the modern electrical power
industry.
The unit of magnetic field density is named after him.
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Inventions and
Contribution of
Nikola Tesla
to
Electronics
Charles Proteus Steinmetz
(1865 - 1923)
discovered the mathematics of hysteresis loss, thus enabling
engineers of the time to reduce magnetic loss in transformers.
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Inventions and
Contribution of
Charles Proteus Steinmetz to
Electronics
Guglielmo Marconi
(1874 - 1937) Known
as the "father of wireless", was an Italian national who expanded on
the experiments that Hertz did, and believed that telegraphic
messages could be transmitted without wires.
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Inventions and
Contribution of
Guglielmo Marconi
to
Electronics
Wilhelm Conrad
Roentgen (1845 - 1923) discovered X rays,
for which he received the first Nobel Prize for physics in 1901.
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Inventions and Contribution of
Wilhelm Conrad
Roentgen
to Electronics
Sir Joseph John Thomson
(1856 - 1940) is
universally recognized as the British scientist who discovered and
identified the electron in the year 1897.
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Inventions and Contribution of
Sir Joseph John Thomson
to Electronics
Albert Einstein
(1879 - 1955): In the year 1905, Einstein elaborated on the
experimental results of Max Planck who noticed that electromagnetic
energy seemed to be emitted from radiating objects in quantities that
were discrete.
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Inventions and
Contribution of
Albert Einstein
to Electronics
Sir John Ambrose Fleming
(1849 - 1945)
made the first diode tube, the Fleming valve in the year 1905.
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Inventions and
Contribution of
Sir John Ambrose Fleming
to Electronics
Lee De Forest
(1873 -
1961) added a grid electrode to Flemings' valve and created the
triode tube, later improved and called the Audion.
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Inventions and
Contribution of
Lee De Forest
to Electronics
Jack St. Clair Kilby
developed the integrated circuit while at Texas instruments.
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Inventions and
Contribution of
Jack St. Clair Kilby
to Electronics
Robert Norton Noyce
(1927 - 1990) also developed the integrated circuit with a more
practical approach to scaling the size of the circuit. He became a
founder of Fairchild Semiconductor Company in 1957.
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Inventions and
Contribution of
Robert Norton Noyce
to Electronics
Seymour Cray
(1925 - 1996) Also known as "The Father of the
Supercomputer", along with George Amdahl, defined the supercomputer
industry in the year 1976.
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Inventions and
Contribution of
Seymour Cray
to
Electronics
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