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Digital Age This era brought about a time
period in which people could
access electronics and
New Media Age technologies
ELECTRONIC
AGE
Definition of electronic age
in the English dictionary The
definition of electronic age
in the dictionary is the
electronic age the
electronic age began when
electronic equipment,
including computers came
into use.

We saw last time how the first generation of
digital computers were built around the first
generation of automatic electrical switch,
the electromagnetic relay. But by the time
those computers were built, another digital
switch was already waiting in the wings.
Whereas the relay was
an electromechanical device (because it
used electricity to control a mechanical
switch), this new class of digital switches
was electronic – founded on the new science
of the electron, a science born around the
turn of the twentieth century. This science
concretized the carrier of electrical force as
not a current, wave, or field, but as a solid
particle.
The device that gave birth to an electronic
age, rooted in this new physics, became
known (at least in the U.S.) as the vacuum
tube. Conventionally, two men figure in the
story of its creation: the Englishman
Ambrose Fleming, and the American Lee de
Forest. In fact, of course, its origins are
more complex and woven from many
threads, which criss-cross Europe and the
Atlantic, and stretch back as far as the
early Leyden jar experiments of the mid-
eighteenth century.
 Electronic Age TimeLine

1930
 Transistor

A transistor(1930) is a semiconductor
device used to amplify or switch
electronic signals and electrical power.
It is composed of semiconductor
material usually with at least three
terminals for connection to an
external circuit.
 Television

Television (TV) (1941), sometimes shortened

to tele or telly, is a telecommunication
medium used for transmitting moving
images in monochrome(black and white), or
in color, and in two or three dimensions and
sound. The term can refer to a television set,
a television program ("TV show"), or the
medium of television transmission.
Television is a mass
medium for advertising, entertainment and
news.
 Enigma

The Enigma machine (1943) is

an encryption device developed and
used in the early- to mid-20th century
to protect commercial, diplomatic and
military communication. It was
employed extensively by Nazi Germany
during World War II, in all branches of
the German military.
 Transistor Radio

A transistor radio is a small portable radio receiver that

uses transistor-based circuitry. Following
their development in 1954, made possible by
the invention of the transistor in 1947, they became the
most popular electronic communication device in
history, with billions manufactured during the 1960s and
1970s. Their pocket size sparked a change in popular
music listening habits, allowing people to listen to music
anywhere they went. Beginning in the 1980s, however,
cheap AM transistor radios were superseded by devices
with higher audio quality such as portable CD
players, personal audio players, boomboxes, and
(eventually) smartphones, some of which contain radios
themselves.
 EDSAC

The Electronic delay storage automatic

calculator (EDSAC) was an early British
computer. Inspired by John von Neumann's
seminal First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC,
the machine was constructed by Maurice
Wilkes and his team at the University of
Cambridge Mathematical Laboratory in
England. EDSAC was the second electronic
digital stored-program computer to go into
regular service.
 OHP Projector

An overhead projector (OHP), like a film or slide

projector, uses light to project an enlarged
image on a screen. In the overhead projector,
the source of the image is a page-sized sheet of
transparent plastic film (also known as 'foils')
with the image to be projected either printed or
hand-written/drawn. These are placed on the
glass surface of the projector, which has a light
source below it and a projecting mirror and lens
assembly above it (hence, 'overhead'). They
were widely used in education and business
before the advent of computer-based
projection.
 UNIVAC

UNIVAC (Universal Automatic Computer) is a

line of electronic digital stored-
program computers starting with the products
of the Eckert–Mauchly Computer Corporation.
Later the name was applied to a division of
the Remington Rand company and successor
organizations.
The BINAC, built by the Eckert–Mauchly
Computer Corporation, was the first general-
purpose computer for commercial use. The
descendants of the later UNIVAC
1107 continue today as products of
the Unisys company.
 IBM 704

The IBM 704, introduced by IBM in 1954, is

the first mass-
produced computer with floating-
point arithmetic hardware. The IBM
704 Manual of operation states:

The type 704 Electronic Data-Processing

Machine is a large-scale, high-speed
electronic calculator controlled by an
internally stored program of the single
address type.
 Hewlett Packard 9100A

The Hewlett-Packard Company (commonly

referred to as HP, and stylized as hp) or Hewlett-
Packard was an
American multinational information technology
company headquartered in Palo Alto, California. It
developed and provided a wide variety of
hardware components as well as software and
related services to consumers, small- and medium-
sized businesses (SMBs) and large enterprises,
including customers in the government, health and
education sectors.
 Floppy Disk

A floppy disk, also known as

a floppy, diskette, or simply disk, is a
type of disk storage composed of a disk
of thin and flexible magnetic
storage medium, sealed in a rectangular
plastic enclosure lined with fabric that
removes dust particles. Floppy disks are
read and written by a floppy disk
drive (FDD).
 Apple 1

Apple Computer 1, also known later as the Apple I,

or Apple-1, is a desktop computer released by the
Apple Computer Company (now Apple Inc.) in 1976. It
was designed and hand-built by Steve Wozniak. The
idea of selling the computer came from Wozniak's
friend Steve Jobs. The Apple I was Apple's first
product, and to finance its creation, Jobs sold his only
motorized means of transportation, a VW
Microbus,[6] for a few hundred dollars, and Steve
Wozniak sold his HP-65 calculator for $500; however,
Wozniak said that Jobs planned to use his bicycle if
necessary.[7] It was demonstrated in July 1976 at
the Homebrew Computer Club in Palo Alto,
California.[8]
 Walkman

Walkman is a series of portable media players and

some Xperia mobile phones manufactured by Sony. The
original Walkman, released in 1979, was a portable
cassette player that changed listening habits by allowing
people to listen to music on the move. It was devised by
Sony cofounder Masaru Ibuka, who felt Sony's existing
portable player was too unwieldy and expensive. A
prototype was built from a modified Sony Pressman, a
compact tape recorder designed for journalists and
released in 1977.