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100 1 _aWilliams, J. B.,
245 1 4 _aThe electronics revolution :
_binventing the future /
_cJ.B. Williams.
264 1 _aCham :
_bSpringer,
_c[2017]
264 4 _c©2017.
300 _ax, 284 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c25 cm.
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent.
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia.
338 _avolume
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_2rdacarrier.
490 1 _aSpringer Praxis books in popular science.
500 _aPublished in association with Praxis Publishing, Chichester, UK.
505 0 _a1: 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.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 _aThis 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.
650 0 _aElectronics
_xTechnological innovations.
830 0 _aSpringer-Praxis books in popular science.
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