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1-06-2011 | Who invented the light emitting diode or LED? Nobody! Let’s re-phrase the question then; who was the first to discover light emission from s...

1-05-2011 | It’s easy to see why Tek 500 series ‘scopes now stir up nostalgic feelings of 1960s and 1970s ‘college & lab’ days. For one thing, they are...

1-04-2011 | You might be surprised to learn that solid-state electronics date back as far as 1874, when in fact Ferdinand Braun invented a solid-state r...

1-03-2011 | In the 1950s there were lots of DIY electronics designs for sale. They were printed on large sheets of paper (easily up to a metre in width)...

1-02-2011 | Engineers translate ideas into products. They’re limited by the tools available for facilitating that translation. Over the span of my engin...

1-01-2011 | In the late 1950's, stereo was in its infancy as far as Joe Bloggs was concerned — what little equipment there was being firmly aimed at...

1-11-2010 | Since the famous compass that Ampère christened a ‘galvanometer’, two successive types of voltmeter have held sway. The first of these combi...

1-10-2010 | The first transistor radio was called Regency TR-1 and appeared on the market in 1954, at a time when radios with vacuum tubes had been arou...

1-09-2010 | In November 1968, the Belgian company MBLE (Manufacture Belge de Lampes et de Mmatériel Electronique) published an article in its “Special n...

1-06-2010 | When I was thinking how to improve my text screen, I suddenly remembered I had a copy Elektor’s December 1978 edition, with an article about...