Introduction To Electronic Communications
Introduction To Electronic Communications
COMMUNICATIONS
ELECTRONICS
Computers – largest field in terms of sales of
equipment and services and number of employees
Communications Industry
– concerned with electronic equipment used
for transfer of information between two or
more points.
ELECTRONICS
Control
– smallest field
Control Field
– concerned with electric power as well as
various kinds of electronic components and
circuits used to operate lights, heating
elements, electric motors and other devices.
ELECTRONICS
Communications
- components
- circuits
- techniques
- applications
COMMUNICATION
Communication
– basic process of exchanging information
– transferring of information from one
place to another
Human
– convey their thoughts, ideas and feelings
to one another
- spoken words / non-verbal / letters
COMMUNICATION
Barriers of Human Communications
1. Language
2. Distance
ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS
Electronic Communication
– transmission, reception and processing
of information between two or more
locations using electronic circuits.
ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS
History
Late 19th century – electricity was discovered
1837 – 1844 – First Electronic Communications
System
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1866 – First Successful use of a Transatlantic
Telegraph Cable
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1876 – Telephone
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1887 – Hertz discovers Radio Waves
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1894 – 95 – Wireless Telegraphy
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1901 – First Transatlantic Radio Transmission
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1903 – Fleming Valve was invented
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1906 – 08 – Triode Vacuum Tube / First Radio
Telephone Broadcast
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1920 – First Commercial Radio (AM)
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1923 – Television was invented
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1931 – Radio Astronomy
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1933 – FM
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1936 – First FM Commercial Broadcasting
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1940-45 – RADAR was perfected
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1948 – Transistor was invented
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1954 – Colored Television
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1959 - Integrated Circuits
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1962 – First Commercial Satellite
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Modern Electronic Communications System
1. metallic cable systems
2. microwave and satellite radio systems
3. optical fiber systems
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Elements of a Communication System
Noise
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Types of Electronic Communications
A. One – Way or Two – Way
B. Types of Intelligence Signals Transmitted