Electronics Inventors Quiz
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November 1963 Popular Electronics
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Wax nostalgic about and learn from the history of early electronics. See articles
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Most of these matches of the devices and its inventor are pretty
easy for people who have been around electronics for any length
of time (well, not if the length of time is a day or two), but
a couple just might stump you. This Electronics Inventors Quiz
appeared in a 1963 edition of Popular Electronics, so you won't
be challenged with knowing the inventors of the LCD or MEMS
devices, but neither will you have to know who came up with
the abacus or the Archimedes screw :-).
Electronics Inventors Quiz
By Robert P. Balin
Electronic Inventors Quiz
1) Bardeen, Brattain, Shockley _____
2) De Forest _____
3) Edison _____
4) Faraday _____
5) Franklin _____
6) Lissajous _____
7) Roentgen _____
8) Weston _____
9) Wheatstone _____
10) Yagi _____
See answers below.
Popular Electronics published many quizzes over the years
- some really simple and others not so simple. Robert Balin created many of the quizzes.
This is a listing of all I have posted thus far.
- Electronics IQ Quiz
- May 1967
- Plug and Jack Quiz
- December 1967
- Electronic
Switching Quiz - October 1967
- Electronic
Angle Quiz - September 1967
- International
Electronics Quiz - July 1967
- Bridge Circuit
Quiz -December 1966
- Diode Function
Quiz - August 1965
- Diagram Quiz, August
1966
- TV Trouble Quiz,
July 1966
- Electronics History Quiz,
December 1965
- Scope-Trace Quiz,
March 1965
- Electronic
Circuit Analogy Quiz, April 1973
- Test
Your Knowledge of Semiconductors, August 1972
- Ganged Switching
Quiz, April 1972
- Lamp Brightness
Quiz, January 1969
- Lissajous Pattern Quiz, September 1963
- Electronic
Quizoo, October 1962
- Electronic Photo Album Quiz, March 1963
- Electronic Alphabet Quiz, May 1963
- Quiz: Resistive?
Inductive? or Capacitive?, October 1960
- Vector-Circuit Matching Quiz, June 1970
- Inductance
Quiz, September 1961
- RC Circuit
Quiz, June 1963
- Diode Quiz,
July 1961
- Electronic Curves Quiz, February 1963
- Electronic Numbers Quiz, December 1962
- Energy Conversion Quiz, April 1963
- Coil
Function Quiz, June 1962
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- Semiconductor
Quiz - February 1967
- Unknown Frequency
Quiz - September 1965
- Electronics
Metals Quiz - October 1964
- Electronics
Measurement Quiz - August 1967
- Meter-Reading Quiz,
June 1966
- Electronic
Geometry Quiz, January 1965
- Electronic
Factor Quiz, November 1966
- Electronics
Math Quiz, November 1965
- Series Circuit Quiz,
May 1966
- Electrochemistry
Quiz, March 1966
- Electronic Analogy
Quiz, November 1961
- Electronic
Coupling Quiz, August 1973
- Electronics Analogy Quiz, August 1960
- Audio Quiz,
April 1955
- Electronic
Unit Quiz, May 1962
-
Capacitor Circuit Quiz, June 1968
- Quiz on AC Circuit Theory, December 1970
- Magnetic Phenomena Quiz, February 1962
- Electronics Geography Quiz, April 1970
-
Electronic Menu Quiz, August 1963
- Electronic Noise Quiz, August 1962
- Electronic Current Quiz, October 1963
- Electronic Inventors Quiz, November 1963
- Resistor
Function Quiz, January 1962
- Electronic Measurement Quiz, January 1963
- Vacuum
Tube Quiz, February 1961
- Kool-Keeping Kwiz, June
1970
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Inventors Quiz Answers
1 - F John Bardeen, Walter H. Brattain, and William
B. Shockley invented the point-contact transistor in 1948.
2 - J Lee De Forest invented the grid
Audion, the first practical three-element amplifier tube, in
1906. 3 - E Thomas A. Edison invented
the cylinder phonograph, the forerunner of the modern record
player,
in 1877. 4 - I Michael Faraday
discovered the principle of the electric motor in 1821, and
of the transformer in 1831. 5 - H Benjamin
Franklin invented the lightning rod in 1750. 6 -
G Jules A. Lissajous first observed the combination
of two waveforms now called "Lissajous figures"
in 1857. The effect is often seen when using the modern oscilloscope.
7 - B Wilhelm K. Roentgen first observed
the effects of "Roentgen rays," or X rays, in 1895.
8 - C Edward Weston invented the Weston cadmium
cell in 1893. It is still in worldwide use as a standard
of electromotive force or voltage. 9 - A
Sir Charles Wheatstone first demonstrated the bridge circuit
that now bears his name in 1843. It
was originally devised by Samuel H. Christi in 1833. 10
- D Hidetsugu Yagi developed his directional parasitic
element antenna in Japan in the early 1920·s
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