Electronic Inventions and Discoveries: Electronics from Its Earliest Beginnings to the Present Day (Pergamon International Library of Science, Technology, Engineering & Social Studies) - Hardcover

Dummer, G. W. A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0080293549 ISBN 13: 9780080293547

Publisher: Pergamon Press, 1983

Synopsis

In a remarkably short time, electronics has penetrated almost every aspect of modern life and the pace of development in the field shows no sign of slackening. One of the first books to cover electronic inventions in depth, Electronic Inventions and Discoveries: Electronics from Its Earliest Beginnings to the Present Day, Fourth Edition traces the development of electronics from its earliest beginnings to the present day. Spanning a period of two and a half centuries, the book presents a mini-encyclopedia full of valuable information on practically all inventions in electronics from 1745 to 1996.

This fourth edition has been brought up-to-date and made more attractive by a complete redesign while still maintaining the successful features of previous editions. The first nine chapters supply concise yet comprehensive histories of the main areas of the subject. Subsequent chapters provide a list of inventions by subject and succinct descriptions of each invention in date order with over 1,000 references. The book concludes with a list of acronyms and abbreviations, a list of books on inventions and inventors, and a comprehensive index.

During his seventy years in the field, the author has collected a variety of published data to form an up-to-date systematic review of the major developments in electronics and the pattern of advances in electronic techniques. The book forms an essential source of reference to practicing engineers wishing to broaden their knowledge. Teachers and students who require a sound background and understanding of electronics will also find the book invaluable. Written in an easily understood largely nontechnical language, this fascinating and authoritative history of electronic developments will be of great interest to electronic hobbyists and general science readers.

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The book is fill of facts and data and it is useful to look up things in it. There is nothing dry in the style and in the contents either so it is also entertaining just to browse it and find interesting titbits about inventions and inventors. It is clear that a tremendous amount of research and experience went into this volume -- the chemical Intelligencer, January, 1999

Edition details

• Publisher: Pergamon Press
• Publication date: 1983
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0080293549
• ISBN 13: 9780080293547
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 220