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Electronics History Timeline

The document outlines major milestones and inventions in the history of electronics from 600 BC to the present, including Thales of Miletus' discovery of static electricity in 600 BC, Alessandro Volta inventing the battery in 1800, Thomas Edison inventing the phonograph in 1877 and the incandescent light bulb in 1879, the development of integrated circuits in the 1950s-60s which led to the invention of the microprocessor in 1970 and the first mobile phone in 1973, and the introduction of the iPhone by Apple in 2007.

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Electronics History Timeline

The document outlines major milestones and inventions in the history of electronics from 600 BC to the present, including Thales of Miletus' discovery of static electricity in 600 BC, Alessandro Volta inventing the battery in 1800, Thomas Edison inventing the phonograph in 1877 and the incandescent light bulb in 1879, the development of integrated circuits in the 1950s-60s which led to the invention of the microprocessor in 1970 and the first mobile phone in 1973, and the introduction of the iPhone by Apple in 2007.

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Electronics History Timeline, Evolution, Famous Invention and

Discovery (1745-2021)

▪ 600 BC – Thales of Miletus discovered static electricity by rubbing fur on


amber.
▪ 1600 – William Gilbert coined the word electricus that was later termed
as Electricity by Benjamin Franklin in 1752.
▪ 1720 – Stephen Gray discovered insulator and conductor.
▪ 1745 – Ewald Georg von Kleist and Pieter van Musschenbroek invented
Leyden jars.
▪ 1752 – Benjamin Franklin discovered that lightning is electrical by flying a
kite, and explained how Leyden jars work.
▪ 1783 – Charles Augustin de Coulomb formulated Coulomb’s law.
▪ 1800 – Alessandro Volta invented battery (Dry Cell).
▪ 1820 – Hans Christian Oersted discovered magnetic field.
▪ 1820 – André Marie Ampère published his law of electrodynamics called
Ampère’s law.
▪ 1825 – William Sturgeon developed the first electromagnet.
▪ 1826 – Georg Ohm introduced Ohm’s Law.
▪ 1827 – Georg Ohm introduced the concept of electrical resistance.
▪ 1831 – Michael Faraday published the law of induction.
▪ 1931 – Michael Faraday invented transformer.
▪ 1831 – Joseph Henry developed a prototype DC motor.
▪ 1836 – Nicholas Callan invented transformer.
▪ 1844 – Samuel Morse developed telegraphy and the Morse code.
▪ 1856 – Charles Bourseul proposed telephony.
▪ 1862 – James Clerk Maxwell published four equations bearing his name
“Maxwell’s equations“.
▪ 1876 – Alexander Graham Bell invented telephone.
▪ 1877 – Thomas Alva Edison invented phonograph.
▪ 1878 – Joseph Swan invented Incandescent light bulb.
▪ 1879 – Thomas Alva Edison introduced a long lasting filament for
incandescent lamp.
▪ 1887 – Nikola Tesla invented the first induction motor.
▪ 1888 – Heinrich Hertz proved that electro magnetic waves travel over some
distance.
▪ 1890 – Thomas Alva Edison invented fuse.
▪ 1897 – Karl Ferdinand Braun invented cathode ray oscilloscope (CRO).
▪ 1901 – Guglielmo Marconi made first transatlantic radio broadcast.
▪ 1904 – John Ambrose Fleming invented diode.
▪ 1906 – Lee de Forest invented triode.
▪ 1912 – Edwin Howard Armstrong developed Electronic oscillator.
▪ 1915 – Albert Einstein published the Theory of Relativity.
▪ 1928 – First experimental Television broadcast in the US.
▪ 1929 – First public TV broadcast in Germany.
▪ 1941 – Konrad Zuse developed the first programmable computer.
▪ 1943 – Eisler invented the Printed Circuit Board.
▪ 1944 – John Logie Baird developed the first color picture tube.
▪ 1958 – Jack Kilby invented the integrated circuit (IC).
▪ 1960 – Theodore Harold Maiman invented the Laser.
▪ 1962 – Nick Holonyak Jr. invented the LED.
▪ 1962 – Hofstein, Heiman, and RCA invented MOSFET Transistors.
▪ 1964 – Kemeny and Kurtz introduced the BASIC programming language.
▪ 1970 – INTEL introduced the first Microprocessor.
▪ 1971 – Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore formed Intel.
▪ 1973 – John F. Mitchell and Dr. Martin Cooper of Motorola invented the
first mobile phone.
▪ 1976 – Seymour Cray defined the supercomputer.
▪ 2007 – Apple introduced the first iPhone.
▪ 1946 – 2021 (Going on) – Ray Prasad contributed to Surface Mount
Technology.

*you can watch also at YouTube; http://www.electronicsandyou.com/blog/electronics-history-


timeline-600-bc-to-2007.html

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