Williams The Electronics Revolution

Inventing the Future
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-319-49088-5
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 293 Seiten

Reihe: Springer Praxis Books

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. 



John Williams took an electrical engineering degree at Imperial College, which led him into the design of electronic control and instrumentation equipment, and he became a Chartered Engineer. After working for a number of companies, including AVO/Megger and gaining seniority, he went into engineering management and later co-founded Ingenion Design Ltd to produce electronic instrumentation, exposing him to many different industries varying from washing machines to nuclear power stations.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Williams, J. B.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Contents;5
2;Acknowledgments;7
3;Contents;8
4;1: Introduction;11
4.1; Note;14
5;2: Missed Opportunities: The Beginnings of Electronics;15
5.1; Notes;23
6;3: From Wireless to Radio;25
6.1; Notes;32
7;4: Seeing by Electricity: Development of Television;34
7.1; Notes;44
8;5: Seeing a Hundred Miles: Radar;47
8.1; Notes;55
9;6: The ‘Box’: Television Takes Over;57
9.1; Notes;64
10;7: Spinning Discs: Recorded Music;67
10.1; Notes;76
11;8: The Crystal Triode: The Transistor;79
11.1; Notes;89
12;9: Pop Music: Youth Culture in the 1950s and 1960s;91
12.1; Notes;96
13;10: From People to Machines: The Rise of Computers;97
13.1; Notes;105
14;11: Chips into Everything: Integrated Circuits;107
14.1; Notes;116
15;12: From Signboards to Screens: Displays;118
15.1; Notes;126
16;13: Distributing Time: Clocks and Watches;128
16.1; Notes;134
17;14: From Desktop to Pocket: Calculators;136
17.1; Notes;144
18;15: Shrinking Computers: Microprocessors;146
18.1; Notes;154
19;16: Instant Cooking: Microwave Ovens;155
19.1; Notes;161
20;17: Essentials or Toys: Home Computers;163
20.1; Notes;170
21;18: Computers Take Over the Workplace;172
21.1; Notes;180
22;19: From Clerks to Xerography: Copiers;181
22.1; Notes;189
23;20: Shrinking the World: Communication Satellites;190
23.1; Notes;202
24;21: Personal Communicators: Mobile Phones;204
24.1; Notes;213
25;22: Going Online: The Internet;215
25.1; Notes;223
26;23: Glass to the Rescue: Fiber Optics;225
26.1; Notes;234
27;24: Towards Virtual Money: Cards, ATMs and PoS;236
27.1; Notes;243
28;25: Saving TV Programmes: Video Recording;244
28.1; Notes;251
29;26: Electronics Invades Photography: Digital Cameras;253
29.1; Notes;259
30;27: Seeing Inside the Body: Electronics Aids Medicine;261
30.1; Notes;268
31;28: Knowing Where You Are: GPS;270
31.1; Notes;278
32;29: The Electronics Revolution;280
32.1; Notes;284
33;ChapBM1;285
33.1;Bibliography;285
34;Index;288