The electronics revolution : inventing the future / J.B. Williams.

By:

Williams, J. B

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9783319490878
3319490877

Subject(s):

Electronics -- Technological innovations

DDC classification:

621.381 23

LOC classification:

TK7819 .W55 2017

Contents:

1: Introduction; Note; 2: Missed Opportunities: The Beginnings of Electronics; Notes; 3: From Wireless to Radio; Notes; 4: Seeing by Electricity: Development of Television; Notes; 5: Seeing a Hundred Miles: Radar; Notes; 6: The 'Box': Television Takes Over; Notes; 7: Spinning Discs: Recorded Music; Notes; 8: The Crystal Triode: The Transistor; Notes; 9: Pop Music: Youth Culture in the 1950s and 1960s; Notes; 10: From People to Machines: The Rise of Computers; Notes; 11: Chips into Everything: Integrated Circuits; Notes; 12: From Signboards to Screens: Displays Notes; 13: Distributing Time: Clocks and Watches; Notes; 14: From Desktop to Pocket: Calculators; Notes; 15: Shrinking Computers: Microprocessors; Notes; 16: Instant Cooking: Microwave Ovens; Notes; 17: Essentials or Toys: Home Computers; Notes; 18: Computers Take Over the Workplace; Notes; 19: From Clerks to Xerography: Copiers; Notes; 20: Shrinking the World: Communication Satellites; Notes; 21: Personal Communicators: Mobile Phones; Notes; 22: Going Online: The Internet; Notes; 23: Glass to the Rescue: Fiber Optics; Notes; 24: Towards Virtual Money: Cards, ATMs and PoS Notes; 25: Saving TV Programmes: Video Recording; Notes; 26: Electronics Invades Photography: Digital Cameras; Notes; 27: Seeing Inside the Body: Electronics Aids Medicine; Notes; 28: Knowing Where You Are: GPS; Notes; 29: The Electronics Revolution; Notes.

Summary: 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.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	NMC Library	Stacks	TK7819 .W55 2017 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		33039001446268

Published in association with Praxis Publishing, Chichester, UK.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.