OBRADOR, LESLIE JEAN M.
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DEVELOPMENT OF ELECTRONICS
600BC - Thales of Miletus
discovered static electricity by
rubbing fur on amber.
1720 – Stephen Gray discovered
insulator and conductor.
1800 – Alessandro Volta invented
battery (Dry Cell).
1825 – William Sturgeon developed
the first electromagnet.
1831 – Michael Faraday published
the law of induction. Joseph Henry
developed a prototype DC motor.
1844 – Samuel Morse developed
telegraphy and the Morse code.
1876 – Alexander Graham Bell
invented telephone.
1887 – Nikola Tesla invented the first
induction motor.
1901 – Guglielmo Marconi made first
transatlantic radio broadcast.
1941 – Konrad Zuse developed the
first programmable computer.
1958 – Jack Kilby invented the
integrated circuit (IC).
1970 – INTEL introduced the first
Microprocessor.
2007 – Apple introduced the first
iPhone.
Reference: https://www.electronicsandyou.com/blog/electronics-history-timeline-600-bc-to-2007.html
1600 – William Gilbert coined the
word electricus that later termed as
Electricity by Benjamin Franklin.
1783 – Charles Augustin de Coulomb
formulated Coulomb’s law.
1820 – Hans Christian Oersted
discovered magnetic field.
1826 – Georg Ohm introduced Ohm’s
Law and in 1827 – Georg Ohm
introduced the electrical resistance.
1836 – Nicholas Callan invented
transformer.
1862 – James Clerk Maxwell
published four equations bearing his
name “Maxwell’s equations“.
1878 – Joseph Swan invented
Incandescent light bulb.
1890 – Thomas Alva Edison invented
fuse.
1904 – John Ambrose Fleming
invented diode.
1943 – Eisler invented the Printed
Circuit Board.
1962 – Nick Holonyak Jr. invented
the LED.
1973 – John F. Mitchell and Dr.
Martin Cooper of Motorola invented
the first mobile phone.
1946 – 2021 (Going on) – Ray Prasad
contributed to Surface Mount
Technology.