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Bio-Electronic Quiz
June 1968 Popular Electronics

July 1964 Popular Electronics

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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.

This "Bio-Electric Quiz" by Robert Balin appeared in a 1964 issue of Popular Electronics magazine. Your job, if you decide to accept it, is to match up the electronic / electrical devices in the pictures with the parts of the human body associated with all or part of the device. It is pretty self-explanatory (and simple), but for the newbie (or someone not old enough to guess some of them, the mechanics equivalent would be if there was a drawing of a foundation for a house and on option for "foot" (a la footer, or footing) would be chosen. Now that I look at the ten items, there are probably only three that are commonly seen today (unless you happen to be in my house). An updated set of items would include "legs" on an IC, "eye" of an LED motion detector, "foot" for a foot switch, "joint" for a solder connection.

Bio-Electronic Quiz

Bio-Electronic Quiz, July 1964 Popular Electronics - RF Cafeby Robert P. Balin

The body of knowledge a technician should learn contains many terms that are derived from their resemblance to parts of the human anatomy. See if you can match the common electronic terms listed below (1 - 10) with the sketches (A - J) of the devices to which they most likely pertain.

  1. Arm        _____

  2. Eye        _____

  3. Finger    _____

  4. Hair        _____

  5. Hand      _____

  6. Head      _____

  7. Legs       _____

  8. Knee      _____

  9. Neck       _____

10. Nose     _____

 

See answers below.

Quizzes from vintage electronics magazines such as Popular Electronics, Electronics-World, QST, Radio-Electronics, and Radio News were published over the years - some really simple and others not so simple. Robert P. Balin created most of the quizzes for Popular Electronics. This is a listing of all I have posted thus far.

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Capacitor Quiz Answers

 

   1)  E

   2)  I

   3)  C

   4)  B

   5)  J

   6)  A

   7)  G

   8)  F

   9)  H

10)  D

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