Overview
- Shows the impact of electronics and computing on the individual as well as society at large
- Covers the inventors, inventions, and developments in the field of electronics and computing
- Contains an abundance of photographs, graphs, and other images to supplement the text and provide greater understanding
Part of the book series: Springer Praxis Books (PRAXIS)
Part of the book sub series: Popular Science (POPS)
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Table of contents (29 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
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.
Reviews
“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)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Electronics Revolution
Book Subtitle: Inventing the Future
Authors: J.B. Williams
Series Title: Springer Praxis Books
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49088-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-49087-8Published: 07 June 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-49088-5Published: 25 May 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 286
Number of Illustrations: 64 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: Popular Science in Technology, History of Technology, Electrical Engineering, Energy Systems, History of Computing, Media and Communication