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The Electronics Revolution

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Introduction
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    Chapter 2 Missed Opportunities: The Beginnings of Electronics
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    Chapter 3 From Wireless to Radio
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    Chapter 4 Seeing by Electricity: Development of Television
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    Chapter 5 Seeing a Hundred Miles: Radar
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    Chapter 6 The ‘Box’: Television Takes Over
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    Chapter 7 Spinning Discs: Recorded Music
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    Chapter 8 The Crystal Triode: The Transistor
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    Chapter 9 Pop Music: Youth Culture in the 1950s and 1960s
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    Chapter 10 From People to Machines: The Rise of Computers
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    Chapter 11 Chips into Everything: Integrated Circuits
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    Chapter 12 From Signboards to Screens: Displays
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    Chapter 13 Distributing Time: Clocks and Watches
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    Chapter 14 From Desktop to Pocket: Calculators
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    Chapter 15 Shrinking Computers: Microprocessors
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    Chapter 16 Instant Cooking: Microwave Ovens
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    Chapter 17 Essentials or Toys: Home Computers
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    Chapter 18 Computers Take Over the Workplace
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    Chapter 19 From Clerks to Xerography: Copiers
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    Chapter 20 Shrinking the World: Communication Satellites
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    Chapter 21 Personal Communicators: Mobile Phones
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    Chapter 22 Going Online: The Internet
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    Chapter 23 Glass to the Rescue: Fiber Optics
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    Chapter 24 Towards Virtual Money: Cards, ATMs and PoS
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    Chapter 25 Saving TV Programmes: Video Recording
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    Chapter 26 Electronics Invades Photography: Digital Cameras
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    Chapter 27 Seeing Inside the Body: Electronics Aids Medicine
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    Chapter 28 Knowing Where You Are: GPS
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    Chapter 29 The Electronics Revolution
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Chapter title
Glass to the Rescue: Fiber Optics
Chapter number 23
Book title
The Electronics Revolution
Published by
Springer, Cham, January 2017
DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-49088-5_23
Book ISBNs
978-3-31-949087-8, 978-3-31-949088-5
Authors

J. B. Williams

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Student > Doctoral Student 1 100%
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Physics and Astronomy 1 100%