The Electronics Revolution Inventing the Future

List of Figures
Fig. 2.1 Geissler tube................................................................................................ 6
Fig. 2.2 Fleming....................................................................................................... 8
Fig. 2.3 Lee de Forest............................................................................................... 9
Fig. 2.4 Gustave Ferrié............................................................................................. 12
Fig. 3.1 Modulation.................................................................................................. 17
Fig. 3.2 Post Office wireless licenses....................................................................... 18
Fig. 3.3 Households with Radios and electricity...................................................... 21
Fig. 4.1 Rosing’s television transmitter and receiver............................................... 26
Fig. 4.2 Baird with early television.......................................................................... 28
Fig. 4.3 Baird Televisor and image ......................................................................... 29
Fig. 4.4 Baird studio................................................................................................. 31
Fig. 4.5 Alexandra palace opening ceremony and camera....................................... 33
Fig. 5.1 Chain Home radar....................................................................................... 40
Fig. 5.2 Experimental cavity magnetron.................................................................. 42
Fig. 6.1 Decline in cinema attendance and rise of TV............................................. 50
Fig. 6.2 Households with B&W and color TV ........................................................ 53
Fig. 7.1 Emile Berliner............................................................................................. 58
Fig. 7.2 The composer Elgar recording.................................................................... 60
Fig. 7.3 Sales of recorded music in the UK............................................................. 63
Fig. 8.1 Brattain, Shockley and Bardeen.................................................................. 71
Fig. 8.2 First point contact Transistor...................................................................... 72
Fig. 8.3 Growth in Transistor sales.......................................................................... 78
Fig. 9.1 Number of teenagers in the UK.................................................................. 82
Fig. 10.1 Babbage’s Analytical Engine...................................................................... 88
Fig. 10.2 Number of computers on the UK................................................................ 94
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