ELCTRONIC PRODUCTS

ASSEMBLY AND SERVICING NCII

BY: SAMUEL LAPU-LAPU

 HISTORY OF ELECTRONICS
• The history of electronics is a story of the twentieth
century and three key components---the vacuum tube,
the transistor, and the integrated circuits.
• In 1883, Thomas Alva Edison discovered that
electrons will flow one metal conductor to another
vacuum. This discovery of conduction became
known as the Edison effect.
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Thomas Edison in His Laboratory

American inventor Thomas Edison was an
enterprising experimenter from an early age.
Well-known for developing the first practical
electric light bulb, electric generating system,
sound-recording device, and motion picture
projector, he patented more than 1000
inventions during his lifetime.
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In 1904,
John Fleming applied the
Edison effect in inventing a
two-element electron tube
called DIODE
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• Lee De Forest followed in
1906 with the three-element
tube, the TRIODE
• These vacuum tubes were the
devices that manipulated of
electrical energy possible so
it could be amplified and
transmitted.
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1906
Triode Vacuum Tube
American engineer Lee De Forest invents the
audion, later known as the triode, a vacuum
tube that becomes a key component in many
electronic systems, including radio and
television. It is eventually replaced by the
transistor.
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• The first applications of electron tubes in radio
communications
• Guglielmo Marconi pioneered the development of
the wireless telegraph in 1896 and long-distance
radio communication in 1901
• Early radio consisted of either radio telegraphy (the
transmission of Morse code signal) or radio
telephony (voice message)
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Guglielmo Marconi (1901)

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• Inventor of the radio-signaling system, Italian electrical

engineer Guglielmo Marconi was the first to send
wireless signals across the ocean.
• Prior to his invention, there was no way to communicate
over long distances without telegraph wires to carry
electric signals..
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• Both relied on the triode and made rapid advances
thanks to armed forces communications during World
War I
• Early radio transmitter, telephones, and telegraph used
high voltage sparks to make waves and sound
• Vacuum tubes strengthened weak audio signals and
allowed these signals to be superimposed on radio waves
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Edwin Armstrong (1918)

 HISTORY OF ELECTRONICS
• In 1918, Edwin Armstrong invented the “super-
heterodyne receiver” that could select among radio
signals or stations and could receive distant signals
• Radio broadcasting grew astronomically in the
1920s as a direct result
• Armstrong also invented wideband frequency
modulation (FM) in 1935
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• Only AM or amplitude modulation has been used from
1920 to 1935.
• Communication technology was able to make huge
advances before World War II as more specialized tubes
were made for many applications.
• Radio as the primary form of education and entertainment
was soon challenged by television, which was invented in
1920s but didn’t become widely available until 1947
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• Bell laboratories publicity unveiled television in
1927, and its first forms were
electromechanical.
• When an electronic system was proved superior,
bell labs engineers introduced the cathode ray
picture and color television.
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• But Vladimir Zworykin, an engineer with
the Radio Corporation of America (RCA),
is considered the “father of the television”
because of his invention, the picture tubes
and the iconoscope camera tube.
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Vladimir Zworykin (1927)

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VACUUM TRANSISTOR IC
TUBE
 WHAT IS ELECTRONICS?

•is the branch of science and technology which

makes use of the controlled motion of electrons
through different media and vacuum
•The ability to control electron flow is usually
applied to information handling or device
control
WRITTEN TEST:
1. What are the three components describe in the
history of electronics?
2. Who discovered that electrons will flow one
metal conductor to another vacuum?
3. Who applied the Edison effect in inventing a
two-element electron tube called DIODE?
4. What do you call the components invented by
Lee De Forest ?
WRITTEN TEST:
5. What is the first application in electron tubes?
6. Who is the pioneered of the first wireless
telegraph?
7. What is the invention of Edwin Armstrong?
8. Who is the father of television?
9. What is the first television?
10. What is electronics?