Articles History of Electronics - 2

Suzanne Deffree EDN The first live trans-Atlantic television satellite broadcast took place on July 23, 1962, and was made via AT T’s Telstar 1 satellite. Telstar had been launched 13 days prior to the broadcast by a Delta rocket from Cape ...

Cabe Atwell Electronic Design The venerable 78xx series continues to march on in an array of electronic devices, but competition in this space has heated up from multiple companies. It’s become a matter of debate as to precisely when the 78xx ...

Seung Lee, The Mercury News Phys.org Before there was an iPhone, iMac or Macintosh, Apple had the Lisa computer. The Lisa computer which stands for Local Integrated Software Architecture but was also named after Steve Jobs' eldest daughter was ...

Suzanne Deffree EDN The first Intel Pentium processor was shipped on March 22, 1993, kicking off what would become a core line for the company and a well-regarded brand to the public. The name Pentium came from the Greek word pente, meaning five, ...

When EDN debuted in 1956, it began to provide technical information to electrical and electronics designers as transistors began to change the industry. Take a look at these electronics developments and ideas from technical/white papers from that ...

Lou Frenzel Electronic Design We take a look back at a device that overwhelmingly changed the electronics industry and our lives. As of Dec. 23, 2017, the transistor was officially 70 years old. The invention of the transistor may have been the ...

When EDN published its first issue in 1956, electrical measuring instruments looked a little different than they do today. Howard Skolnik, a former colleague and key analog mentor from my Burr-Brown days, has always had a passion for significant ...

Evan Ackerman IEEE Spectrum Hugo Gernsback believed millions yearned for his 3D TV eyeglasses Science fiction as we know it would not exist without Hugo Gernsback. He coined the term “science fiction” as the editor and publisher of ...

Suzanne Deffree EDN The US Army Signal Corps made the first attempt to touch another celestial body when on January 10, 1946, it bounced radio signals off the moon and received the reflected signals. Dubbed Project Diana for the Roman moon goddess, ...

Lou Frenzel Electronic Design From the 555 timer to the LM317 regulator, many old-time components still can be had from suppliers to help engineers, hobbyists, or even college students complete their projects. I’m in the process of updating ...