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The 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 circuit. In 1883, Thomas Alva Edison discovered that electrons will flow from one metal conductor to another through a vacuum. This discovery of conduction became known as the Edison effect. In 1904, John Fleming applied the Edison effect in inventing a two-element electron tube called a diode, and Lee De Forest followed in 1906 with the three-element tube, the triode. These vacuum tubes were the devices that made manipulation of electrical energy possible so it could be amplified and transmitted. The first application of electron tubes were 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 telegraph (the transmission of Morse code signals) or radio telephony (voice messages). Both relied on the triode and made rapid advances thanks to armed forces communications during World War I. Early radio transmitters, telephones, and telegraph used in high-voltage sparks to make waves and sounds. Vacuum tubes strengthened weak audio signals and allowed these signals to be superimposed on radio waves. 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 wide-band frequency modulation (FM) in 1935; only AM or amplitude modulation had 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 the 1920s but didnt become widely available until 1947. Bell Laboratories publicly unveiled the television in 1927, and its first form were electromechanical. When an electronic system was proved superior, Bell Labs engineers introduced the cathode ray picture tube and color television. But Vladimir Zworykin, an engineer with the Radio Corporation of America (RCA), is considered the father of the television because of his inventions, the picture tube and the iconoscope camera tube. Basic Electrical Engineering: Electrical Engineering is a field of Engineering that generally deals with the study and application of electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. This field first became an identified occupation in the latter half of the nineteenth century after commercialization of the electric telegraph, the telephone, and electric power distribution and use. It now covers a wide range of subfields including electronics, digital computers, power engineering, telecommunications, control system, RF engineering, and signal processing. Electrical engineering may include electronic engineering. Where a distinction is made, usually outside of the United States, electrical engineering is considered to deal with the problems associated with the systems such as electrical power transmission and electrical machines, whereas electronic engineering deals with the study of

electronic systems including computers, communication systems, integrated circuits, and radar. For a different point-of-view, electrical engineering are usually concerned with using electricity to transmit electric power, while electronics engineers are concerned with using electricity to process information. The sub disciplines can overlap, for example, in the growth of power electronics, and the study of behaviour of large electrical grids under the control of digital computers and electronics. Resistor Color code: A resistor is an electrical component that limits or regulates the flow of electrical current in an electronic circuit. A resistor is perhaps the most common building block used in circuits. This tool is used to decode information for color banded axial lead resistors.