EE80T: Modern Electronic Technology and How it works
EE80T Links
Here is my somewhat idiosyncratic set of interesting/useful links to web based resources. If you find something that might be of general interest and relevant to this class do not hesitate to email the link to me. The broken links are noted but they have not been removed yet as I am investigating further. If you happen to notice that any of the ones noted as broken are now working or if any of the others are broken, please let me know.
Historical Links
Electricity-By Dave Barry
Smithsonian: Inventors and Scientists
Tommy's History of "Western Technology"
Sam's Telecoms History Page Links Telephones, Telegraphs
Letter From Benjamin Franklin-Regarding Electrocuting Turkeys
The Telegraph Office-Everything Telegraphic, people who collect telegraph keys? Link Broken ....Investigating
Radio History Museum-The World of Wireless
Radar: All-Seeing Eye that Doomed the Enemy From NEWSWEEK’s issue dated
Aug. 20, 1945
Transistorized!-The History of the Invention of the Transistor
The Transistor Museum- People who collect old transistors?!? You bet! History and more.
Transistor History-Lucent (formerly Bell Labs) the place where the transistor was invented.
Evolution of the Computer - IBM Slide Show-at the Computer Museum of America, other good stuff here too.
Technology Links
Electronic Kits-Omnitron Electronics Source for some of the electronic kits demonstrated in class.
Samuel M. Goldwasser's Bookmarks An incredible list of links for those of you who want to tinker.
How Does a Superheterodyne Radio Work? Link broken I will investigate.
How to build a one tube regenerative Radio And another broken link
Build a Radio Using some Wire and a Rusty Razor Blade
Battery Capacity Comparisons - which should you really choose?
Fun With a Microwave-heed the disclaimer, go buy a junker if you want to try any of this...be safe.
The Connected Earth-How Communications Shapes the World
The Ultimate Memory Guide-Kingston Technologies excellent guide to computer memory
Build your own Solar Cell-A kit you can buy to make a solar cell, I think Santa Cruz Electronics has something similar.
Make Semiconductors in your Oven at Home-Build a Solar Cell from inexpensive material you can scrounge. Lot of other cool stuff on this site as well.
Tutorial Links
Engineering Uncovered-Course Textbook Website
Electricity Misconceptions in Text books
Fundamentals of Electricity - Electronics 101 A good place to go for some technical enlightenment, good explanations at the level of this class. Unfortunately currently off-line due to financial problems, if you notice that this site has come back up please let me know.
Electricity Tutorial-The Water Model
Waveforms composed of Sine Waves
these are the links demonstrated in lecture
Digital Logic-If you're confused this should help you see how these work, if your not it is still cool.