MODULE 1

Introduction to Electronics

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HISTORY OF ELECTRONICS

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 MODULE 1

OBJECTIVES

At the end of the discussion the students should be able to:

• Discuss the evolution of semiconductors and its characteristics
• 1791 – 1871
• English mathematician and
inventor
• Professor of mathematics at
Cambridge University
• Invented a viable mechanical
computer equivalent to digital
computers

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Difference Machine Analytical Machine
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• 1828 – 1914
• English physicist, chemist and
inventor
• Early inventor of a successful
incandescent light bulb

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• 1847 – 1931
• American inventor and
businessman
• in 1883, he detected electrons
flowing through the vacuum of
a light bulb
• this became known as the
Edison Effect

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• 1849 – 1945
• English electrical engineer
• developed a two-element
vacuum tube known as the
diode in 1897

Fleming Valve

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• 1873 – 1961
• American inventor
• Added third electrode (grid) on the vacuum
tubes, then called triode
• this tube could be used as both an amplifier and
a switch

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- (November 8, 1923 – June 20,
2005) was an American electrical
engineer
- The first integrated circuit (IC) was
developed by Jack Kilby while
working at Texas Instruments in
1958
-co-inventor of the electronic
handheld calculator.

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L( 2014). Electronic Devices and Circuit Theory
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[5]Ana, M. L., Electronic Devices And Circuits I. 2016.