The Electronics Revolution - J.B. Williams

The Electronics Revolution

Inventing the Future

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
X, 286 Seiten
2017 | 1st ed. 2017
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-49087-8 (ISBN)
42,79 inkl. MwSt

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.

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.




"This is an excellent book with interesting information about just how electronics has shaped the world in the last century or so. It covers an impressive range of topics from timekeeping to the Internet and does so in a nicely digestible way, sufficiently nontechnical in detail, to make things accessible to those who are not primarily interested in the science." (Jeffrey Putnam, Computing Reviews, January, 17, 2018)

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Popular Science
Springer Praxis Books
Zusatzinfo X, 286 p. 68 illus., 4 illus. in color.
Verlagsort Cham
Sprache englisch
Maße 168 x 240 mm
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Natur / Technik Technik
Technik
Schlagworte Computing and information technology • Development of electricity • Electrical Engineering • Energy grid history • Energy technology and engineering • Engineering • History of Computing • History of electricity • History of engineering and technology • History of technology • Household appliances and electricity • media and communication • Media in age of electricity • Media Studies • Physics of Energy Technology • Popular science • Popular Science in Technology • Transport and electricity • Uses of electricity for communication
ISBN-10 3-319-49087-7 / 3319490877
ISBN-13 978-3-319-49087-8 / 9783319490878
Zustand Neuware
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