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Short History of Circuits

This document provides a history of electronics from ancient times to modern semiconductors. It describes early discoveries around batteries, static electricity, and magnetism. Key figures like Gilbert, Franklin, Coulomb, and Volta contributed to understanding electricity and developing early devices. The 19th century saw advances in electromagnetism from Oersted and Ampere and laws developed by Ohm, Faraday, and Maxwell. Invention of devices like the radio, transistor, and integrated circuits in the 20th century drove the electronics revolution.

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Short History of Circuits

This document provides a history of electronics from ancient times to modern semiconductors. It describes early discoveries around batteries, static electricity, and magnetism. Key figures like Gilbert, Franklin, Coulomb, and Volta contributed to understanding electricity and developing early devices. The 19th century saw advances in electromagnetism from Oersted and Ampere and laws developed by Ohm, Faraday, and Maxwell. Invention of devices like the radio, transistor, and integrated circuits in the 20th century drove the electronics revolution.

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History of Electronics and Introduction to Semiconductors

History of Electronics
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Ancient Rome had knowledge of inventing batteries.


Ancient Greece developed a knowledge of steam power.

William Gilbert (1544-1603)


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Wrote De Magnote, distinguished static electricity and magnetism.

Leyden Jar
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First capacitor invented


Developed by Pieter van Musscenbroech

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)


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Defined positive and negative electric charges.

Charles Coulomb (1736-1806)


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Developed Coulombs Law for electrostatic charges.

Alessandro Volta (1745-1827)


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Invented the battery

Hans Christian Oersted (1777-1851)


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Demonstrated that electricity affected magnetism


Initiated the study of electromagnetism
Discovered Aluminum

Andre Ampere (1775-1836)


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Invented the Solenoid


Studied the effects of electrical currents

Georg Simon Ohm (1789-1854)


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Experimented electrical circuits


Discovered Ohms Law, a relationship involving resistance, current and voltage

Michael Faraday (1791-1867)

Demonstrated Electromagnetic Induction

James Prescott Joule (1818-1889)


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Discovered the Law of Conversation of Energy

Gustav Robert Kirchoff (1824-1887)


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Known for his work on the spectroscope


Developed Kirchoffs Law

James Clark Maxwell (1831-1879)


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Wrote Treatise in Electricity and Magnetism in 1873


Explained Faradays work and predicted Hertzs work

Heinrich Rudolph Hertz (1857-1894)


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Demonstrated Maxwells prediction of electromagnetic photoradiation


First to demonstrate the photoelectric effect

Wilhelm Rontgen (1845-1923)


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Discovered X-Rays in 1895


Max von Laue proved they were electromagnetic in nature later (1940s)

Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)


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Observed the Edison effect while inventing the electric lamp

Nikola Tesla (1856-1943)


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Invented: AC generators, distribution system and AC induction motors

Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937)


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Patented Radio Telegraphy in 1896


1901 transmitted signals across the Atlantic Ocean

John Ambrose Fleming (1849-1945)


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Invented the Fleming Valve - the first electronic rectifier or diode (1904)

Lee De Forest (1873-1961)


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1906 - invented the Audion tube, the first Triode vacuum tube
1912 cascade his tubes to increase amplification

Walter Schottky (1886-1976)


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Defined shot noise - random electron noise in thermionic tubes


1919 invented the multiple grid vacuum tube

Edwin Howard Armstrong (1890-1954)


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Invented regenerative feedback and electronic oscillators


1917 invented the superheterodyne radio
1933 patented FM radio (wideband)

Philo Taylor Farnsworth (1906-1971)


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1922 - invented an electronic TV system

William Bradford Shockley (1910-1989)


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Worked with Brattain and Bardeen on a team that invented the junction transistor

Walter H. Brattain (1902-1987)


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Worked on Radar silicon detectors


Worked on the team that invented the junction transistor

John Bardeen (1908-1991)


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Developed a theory of quantum surface states of electrons which led to the


invention of the junction transistor

References:
History of Electronics: http://www.eta-i.org/History%20of%20Electronics
%20%20electricity.pdf
Introduction to Semiconductors: http://uotechnology.edu.iq/deplaserandoptoeleceng/branch/lectures/electronic1/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AD
%D8%A7%D8%B6%D8%B1%D8%A9%20%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%88
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