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216 pages. Ex-library - very tidy.Electronics provides a welcome, comprehensive history of one of the late twen tieth century's greatest technologies: electronic devices. Some of them, the las er and the microchip for example, have become household words. Yet their origins and operation are largely unknown to the general public, remaining mysterious o utside the field of engineering. Their advent brought about many of the most imp ortant historical developments in recent memory?the rise of television, the Co ld War, the Space Race, the growth of Asian semiconductor manufacturers, and the emergence of the surveillance society.Electronics also relates the fasci nating stories of how scientists and engineers created and commercialized such d evices as the transistor, the Magnetron tube used to power microwave ovens, the CRT (cathode ray tube), the laser, the first integrated circuit, the microproces sor, and memory chips.