Electronics Inventors Quiz
November 1963 Popular Electronics

November 1963 Popular Electronics Table of Contents People old and young enjoy waxing nostalgic about and learning some of the history of early electronics. Popular Electronics was published from October 1954 through April 1985. All copyrights are hereby acknowledged. See all articles from Popular Electronics.

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 _____

 

 

Here are other Popular Electronics quizzes:

- Lamp Brightness Quiz, January 1969 - Graph Interpretation Quiz, April 1967 - Electronic Quizoo, October 1962 - Electronic Photo Album Quiz, Mar 1963 - Electronic Analogy Quiz, Nov 1961 - Electronic Alphabet Quiz, May 1963 - RC Circuit Quiz, Jun 1963 - Diode Quiz, Jul 1961 - Kool-Keeping Kwiz, Jun 1970 - Electronic Curves Quiz, Feb 1963 - Electronic Numbers Quiz, Dec 1962 - Energy Conversion Quiz, Apr 1963 - Coil Function Quiz, Jun 1962 - Electronics Analogy Quiz, Aug 1960 - Audio Quiz, April 1955 - Electronic Unit Quiz, May 1962 - Capacitor Circuit Quiz, Jun 1968 - Magnetic Phenomena Quiz, Feb 1962 - Electronics Geography Quiz, Apr 1970 - Electronic Menu Quiz,  Aug 1963 - Electronic Noise Quiz, Aug 1962 - Electronic Current Quiz, Oct 1963 - Electronic Inventors Quiz, Nov 1963 - Resistor Function Quiz, Jan 1962 - Electronic Measurement Quiz, Jan 1963 - Vacuum Tube Quiz, Feb 1961

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

Posted January 3, 2013