What is Electronic Age?
The definition of electronic age in the dictionary is the electronic age the electronic age began when electronic equipment, including computers came into use.
The first generation of digital computers were built around the first generation of automatic electrical switch, the electromagnetic relay.
But by the time those computers were built, another digital switch was already waiting in the wings. Whereas the relay was an electromechanical device (because it used electricity to control a mechanical switch), this new class of digital switches was electronic – founded on the new science of the electron, a science born around the turn of the twentieth century.
The device that gave birth to an electronic age, rooted in this new physics, became known (at least in the U.S.) as the vacuum tube. Conventionally, two men figure in the story of its creation: the Englishman Ambrose Fleming, and the American Lee de Forest.
Edison
The device that gave birth to an electronic age, rooted in this new physics, became known (at least in the U.S.) as the vacuum tube. Conventionally, two men figure in the story of its creation: the Englishman Ambrose Fleming, and the American Lee de Forest.
Edison
Edison is, in the popular imagination, the inventor of the electric light bulb. This gives him both too much credit and too little. Too much credit, again, because Edison was not the only one to devise an incandescent bulb.
ELECTRONIC AGE GALLERY:
EVOLUTION OF ELECTRONICS THROUGH THE YEARS
With the evolution of Technology to which Electronics Engineering has played a very significant role, it has become possible for any individual from one corner of the planet to talk to another individual at other corner in just a fraction of a second.
Word Electronics comes from Electron which was first discovered by Sir J. J. Thomson in 1897. So, that clearly means we did not know the basic principles related to Electronics before 1897.
But once this concept was unveiled, there had been no looking back. During times of First and Second World Wars technology took quite an advanced shape. During those days technology components were mainly taken care of by concepts of Vacuum Tubes like Diodes (not semiconductor diodes), Triodes, Tetrodes and Pentodes. These electronic components were not only bulky but also very slow in operation.
It is said about the direction of research in Electronics that -
- Make the size of devices as small as possible no matter whatsoever is their current size today.
- Make the devices as fast as possible no matter whatsoever is their current speed today.
- Make the devices more and more power efficient no matter whatsoever is their power consumption today.
