Wednesday, April 28, 2010

History of Electronics




I think that nobody could survive without electronics(people who just want some fun with technology). I think that in the twentieth century is the most important century ever, because is the time where electronics was invented. I always see people with electronics devices and gadgets where I ever go. People have different kind of phones that I want to have. MP3 or IPods is the most electronics deice that I see. But there are many devices that I see that people get entertain with. But did you know that in 1883, Thomas Alva Edison discovered that electrons will flow from one metal conductor to another through a vacuum. Which is how this person noticed that by knowing what can electrons do, he can do many cool things with it. So with that information, The first applications of electron tubes were in radio communications. Then later after some people noticed about this great invention, they use it for other creations. Like, Guglielmo Marconi developed the wireless telegraph in 1896 and long-distance radio communication in 1901. This is how phones or telephones started, which is pretty cool, because old phones use to be big and now they are tiny as a mouse. Technology has helped us in wars and government too. Communications technology was able to make huge advances before World War I. We had use radios to communicate with other forces around the world. But during WWI there was another great invention. Radio was the primary form of education and entertainment, but then it was soon challenged by television. Before TVs use to be heavy. There where heavy because they where made out of wood, and they had small screens(they had not invented plastic yet). However, as time pass engineers, invented colored TVs. But there was an invention that went farther than the color TVs. Vladimir Zworykin was considered the "father of the television" because of his inventions. His inventions made TVs' images look more clearly and better. This egineer made TVs involved to the limits. Now we have like 60' inches TVs(I have one), or even bigger ones. Whit also all that information of the TVs, scientist had made computers. So as computers have been invented, the internet was invented too. So as internet was invented, our education has improved a lot more than the 1920s or something like that. But I think after computers where invented our world has changed a lot. New TVs, new radios, new ways to lisent to music, new ways to be enteinrain our self. So just imagine how we had change our ways of live in just over 100 years, a whole century. For me its really short time. I had never noticed this sense now. I'm really amazed what us humans have done. WWWOOOOHHHHH!!!!!!!

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