People And Electronics By: Jacquelynn Lin
Dedication This book is for the students that doesn’t know a lot about electronics or wants to know about electronics. -Jacquelynn Lin
Table of Contents
Introduction
Page 3
All about Television
Page 4
All about Telephones
Page 5
All about Computers
Page 6
Future Electronics
Page 7
Glossary
Page 8
Cited Sources
Page 9
About The Author
Page 10
Introduction Hi! Are you using computer, TV and telephone? Even though we used those electronics every day, but do we really know about them? Here is a great book for you!
In this book you will get information about electronics before, now and electronic in the future! This book will tell you that electronics has changed our life.
All About Television
TV Now The television screen is very clear and big now. USB, disc, CDs and so on are all available to use
This is a TV people used before!
on televisions. Many companies makes electronics that TV can use. There are many channels in the TV now, but in the old times there is only 3 to 4 channels in each
TV Before Since the late 1920s, TV becomes commonplace in homes, businesses and institutions. It is a
TV. In the old times, everything in the TV is black and white, but now they are all colorful. Television has changed a lot and it has changed our life.
vehicle for advertising. When it was 1949, the United States developed cable TV to provide better television reception in remote regions.When it was 1950s TV is the main medium for molding public opinion. At 1970s, Televisions can use video cassettes, laserdiscs and DVDs. This is a TV that we are using now!
All About Telephone
Telephone Before In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell successfully made the first telephone in the world. It is the first device in the history that enabled people to talk directly with each other across large distance. After that telephone became indispensable to businesses, government and house. Before that, Gray invents a liquid transmitter for use with a telephone but does not build one. In 1844, Innocenzo Manzetti first mooted the idea of a “speaking telegraph”
This is a telephone now.
or telephone. Use of the 'speaking telegraph' and 'sound telegraph' monikers would eventually be replaced by the newer, distinct name, telephone.
Telephone Now Now we have better telephones. We even have cellphones. In the old days, telephone is very hard to use. Old telephones have wires to connect, but new telephones (cellphones) don’t. They are easier to bring. This is a telephone before. Can you figure out how to use it?
Old telephones don’t have number. People have to call the operator. Then the operator will connect this telephone to another telephone but now calling other people is very easy. New telephones are better choices for us! Well, The changes of electronics are huge and helpful.
All About Computers
This is a computer now!
This is a computer before! Computer Before In 1936, Alan Turing made the Turing Machine, which provided idea of algorithm and computation. In 1937 Atansoff built the first electronic digital computer. In 1946, J. Presper Eckert built EDSAC, the first computer to add the stoned program. In the 1980s, the personal computer became a common as TV and telephone in the household items.
Computer Now With all these years, the running speed of computer is gradually becoming faster and faster, the programs are getting increasingly sophisticated, the memory in the computer become larger and larger, the applications are getting richer and more intelligent.
Future Electronics Future TV In the future, I think the TV is going to be smarter! I maybe will look like an
Future Computer
iPad. Maybe you can even control it
This is a picture of a computer in the
with your hand!
future. It doesn’t have a keyboard but when you want to use the computer there is a thing that can shoot light and
This is a TV in the future!
it will look like a keyboard. It is light and easy to bring! Here is a phone in the future!
Future Telephone In the future, there will be a kind of phone that is just like a watch. It is light and cool! Even though the screen is small but you can send message, call others, check e-mail, listen music and many things!
Here is a computer in the future!
Glossary Institutions: a society or organization founded for a religious, educational, social, or similar purpose.
Advertise: describe or draw attention to (a product, serve, or event) in a public medium to promote sales or attendance
Algorithm: a process or set of rules to be followed in calculations or other problem-solving operations.
Computation: the action of mathematical calculation.
Cited Sources Book
Parker, Steve. 20th Century Media. Vol. 1. Milwaukee, WI: Stevens Pub., 2002. Print
Information from the Internet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer
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About the Author Jacquelynn Lin is a fifth grade student in Shanghai American School. She likes to dance, act, swim and play golf. She made this book because she is interested about electronics. So she wrote this book and she hope everyone like her book.
Thank You!