Electronics Engineering · CHAPTER 00
Introduction & History
The importance of knowledge and curiosity, told through the experiments that revealed electricity, magnetism and electromagnetic waves.
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Luigi Galvani
Animal electricity, two dissimilar metals and the frog-leg experiment that started a scientific argument.
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb
The torsion balance and the first quantitative law of electric force.
Alessandro Volta
The voltaic pile: the first continuous source of electrical current.
Hans Christian Ørsted
The compass experiment that connected electricity and magnetism.
Fields, Electrons & Voltage
The essential ideas needed to read the experiments that follow.
Georg Simon Ohm
Experimental evidence becomes a mathematical law linking voltage, current and resistance.
André-Marie Ampère
Forces between current-carrying wires and the invention of the solenoid.
Michael Faraday
A moving magnetic field induces current: the principle behind generators.
James Clerk Maxwell
One unified theory for electricity, magnetism, light and electromagnetic waves.
Heinrich Hertz
Producing and detecting electromagnetic waves across a laboratory.