num_pages: 560
description: A comprehensive and fascinating account of electrical and electronics history Much of the infrastructure of today's industrialized world arose in the period from the outbreak of World War I to the conclusion of World War II. It was during these years that the capabilities of traditional electrical engineeringgenerators power transmission motors electric lighting and heating home appliances and so onbecame ubiquitous. Even more importantly it was during this time that a new type of electrical engineeringelectronicsemerged. Because of its applications in communications (both wire-based and wireless) entertainment (notably radio the phonograph and sound movies) industry science and medicine and the military the electronics industry became a major part of the economy. Dawn of the Electronic Age?explores how this engineering knowledge and its main applications developed in various scientific economic and social contexts and explains how each was profoundly affected by electrical technologies. It takes an international perspective and a narrative approach unfolding the story chronologically. Though a scholarly study (with sources of information given in endnotes for engineers and historians of science and technology) the book is intended for the general public.?Ultimately it tells the story of the development of a new realm of engineering and its widespread applications during the remarkable and tragic period of two world wars and the decades in between.
language: English
title: Dawn of the Electronic Age: Electrical Technologies in the Shaping of the Modern World, 1914 to 1945
publisher: Wiley-IEEE Press