Electronics Inventors Quiz
November 1963 Popular Electronics

November 1963 Popular Electronics Table of Contents Wax nostalgic about and learn from the history of early electronics. See articles from Popular Electronics, published October 1954 - April 1985. All copyrights are hereby acknowledged.

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 _____

 

 

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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.

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

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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