Who made the greatest contribution to electronics

[Jay.slovak]

Hi Roboticinfo,

Edison wasn't the inventor of the incandescent light bulb? :shock:

Ya, get the name of the real inventor, this is interesting.

Was it one of those things were the European guy was stuck in traffic, while Edison was getting the patent.

D.J.

I knew two inventors were competing, but I didn't know that Edison won due to trafic Jam :shock: :lol:

 

[Someone Electro]

he shod of invented a rocket car first to get there soner

 

[Jay.slovak]

he shod of invented a rocket car first to get there soner

Maybe FAX would be enaugh?

 

[Someone Electro]

I still think the transistor is the bigest invention.Almost evryting now contains transistors.Whithout the transitor there wod be no cell phones. (now cell phones have prety powerful procesors that can make good 3D graphics).

And the vacum tube is a prety good one too.They also make an good way of displaying data (CRT or monitors in idiot language).Im using it right now

 

[Jay.slovak]

I still think the transistor is the bigest invention.Almost evryting now contains transistors.Whithout the transitor there wod be no cell phones. (now cell phones have prety powerful procesors that can make good 3D graphics).

And the vacum tube is a prety good one too.They also make an good way of displaying data (CRT or monitors in idiot language).Im using it right now

That's what I ment with

They are still in use, right in front of your eyes!

:lol:

 

[D.J.]

Jay,

The term, being stuck in traffic is, just a funning saying I've heard many poeple refer to.

It happened many times before( Joseph Henry & Samual Morse, Tesal & Marconi) when two people where trying to invent the same thing at the same time, and when they both figured it out at the same time, ( or one just stole the idea from the other ) their was a race to the patent office to get their idea out their first.

The person who was late is said to be, stuck in traffic. :lol:

Who was the european guy who invented the light bulb, are you talking about Tesla and his flouescent light, or someone else?

Regards,

D.J.

 

[Jay.slovak]

Jay,

The term, being stuck in traffic is, just a funning saying I've heard many poeple refer to.

It happened many times before( Joseph Henry & Samual Morse, Tesal & Marconi) when two people where trying to invent the same thing at the same time, and when they both figured it out at the same time, ( or one just stole the idea from the other ) their was a race to the patent office to get their idea out their first.

The person who was late is said to be, stuck in traffic. :lol:

Who was the european guy who invented the light bulb, are you talking about Tesla and his flouescent light, or someone else?

Regards,

D.J.

Oh crap...

I'm sorry I didn't know that Term.

We know there was another guy with same type of LightBulb (not Tesla), they invented it independantly (I can't spell that...) of each other, and Edison had it patented first... :wink:

 

[D.J.]

So the Euopean guy was "stuck in traffic" :lol:

 

[Jay.slovak]

So the Euopean guy was "stuck in traffic" :lol:

LOL Bad for Him, good for Edison

Now, every lightbulb has E27 or E14 on it, where E symbolises Edison :shock:

 

[Roboticinfo]

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This is the guy who invented the first light bulb

Sir Humphrey Davy of England invented the first electric carbon arc lamp in 1801.

 

[plot]

Tesla definatly made the COOLEST contritubutions.

 

[Jay.slovak]

Tesla definatly made the COOLEST contritubutions.

AND one of the most dangerous!

 

[Someone Electro]

The atomic bomb was the most dengerus if you ask me

 

[Jay.slovak]

The atomic bomb was the most dengerus if you ask me

Maybe Hydrogen or Neutron Bombs are even more dangerous (and few biological as well). :lol:

 

[D.J.]

"AND one of the most dangerous!"

That's why the governement confiscated all his stuff.

It's to bad we don't have very much of his stuff to studdy, but it's a good thing other people don't! :twisted:

 

[Someone Electro]

Forgot about those.

 

[mechie]

My vote goes to Boole

In 1854 George Boole Introduced a formalism that eventually became Boolean Algebra.

Maybe a bit boring but essential for logic circuits. Transistors may have been confined to linear applications without it.

Not bad for a mid-19th century Irish preacher :wink:

Either him or Charles Babbage (the analytical engine)
or Alan Turing (Founder of computer science, mathematician, codebreaker, weird thinker)

I guess that's three votes then :?: :wink:

 

[heathtech]

Samuel Morse

Samuel Morse in my opinion made the most groundbreaking contribution to electronics. If he had not recognized that signals could be generated by pulsing voltages we wouldn't have serial communication with computers, cd players, etc.

 

[Jay.slovak]

And what about Galvany? Without him we wouldn't have Electricity stored in Batteries! And that would be a problem, especialy in these "Portable" days :lol:

 

[theinfamousbob]

This question is quite hard...I immediatly thought Tesla for all of the forementioned reasons, but after paging through the postings it seems that the "most profound contributor to the field of electricity and/or electronics" should be traced back, because without the predecessor the "newbie" would be nullified. Just look at the discovery of DNA for an example...