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14 unusual facts about electronics


Electronics

Rasberry crazy ants have been known to consume the insides of electrical wiring, and nest inside of electronics; they prefer DC to AC currents.

Emergency vehicle equipment

Sirens - These can be fully electronic, electric, or manual, but are all designed to create changing sound patterns.

Experimenter Publishing

The April 1958 Radio-Electronics (formerly Radio Craft) has a 16-page story on Gernsback's 50 year publishing history.

Florida Public Safety Information Act

FDLE provides all sheriffs' offices and FDLE regional operations centers with sexual predator/ offender registration forms and will make available by diskette, electronic (through CJNET) or hardcopy format, model affidavits and warrants for all offenses regarding sexual offenders and predators.

Heritage Institute of Technology, Kolkata

Heritage Institute of Technology was set up on the eastern fringes of Kolkata in 2001 by a group of industrialists hailing from the flourishing Information Technology, Electronics and related industries around Kolkata, and some public figures.

K. K. Aggarwal

Aggarwal obtained his engineering degree in electronics and communication from the Panjab University in 1968 and M.Sc.-engineering in advanced electronics from the Kurukshetra University in 1971.

Manalapan-Englishtown Middle School

MEMS is noted for its electronic equipment, including smart boards, three to five computers in every room, 20-30 computers in each computer lab, and an electronic account for every lunch-purchasing student.

Pointy-haired Boss

The company's actual name, as spoken in the TV series, was "Path-Way Electronics" before merging with "E-Tech Management", making it "Path-E-Tech Management" (a play on the word "pathetic"), but when Dogbert acquired it later in the episode, there was a "Dogbert Inc." sign being lifted into place.

Qatar Scientific Club

Initially the club only had two sections which were Electronics and Electricity, however the number of sections increased as the club members number was growing.

Radio News

In 1948 Radio-Craft became Radio-Electronics and Radio News became Radio & Television News (August 1948).

Radio-Electronics

Gernsback sold Modern Electrics in March 1913 and it became Electrician and Mechanic.

RNS Institute of Technology

Of these, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, Information Science and Engineering, Instrumentation Technology are accredited for a minimum period of 3 years by the National Board of Accreditation.

Ronnie Boykins

This is especially pronounced on the key recordings from 1965 (The Magic City, The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Volume One and The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Volume Two) where the intertwining lines of Boykins' bass and Ra's electronic keyboards provide the cohesion.

Septerra Core: Legacy of the Creator

Those living on Shell 2 are called "the Junkers", people which make a living out of collecting junk - especially electronic - originating from the upper shell.


1992–93 Manchester City F.C. season

City retained the previous season's kit, manufactured by English company Umbro and sponsored by Japanese electronics manufacturer Brother.

Agitation Free

Michael Hoenig - keyboards, electronics (1971-1974, 1998, 2007, 2012)

Allen Coombs

Allen William Mark (Doc) Coombs (23 October 1911 – 30 January 1995) was a British electronics engineer at the Post Office Research Station, Dollis Hill.

Anne LeBaron

Her 1991 recording Phantom orchestra featured the Anne LeBaron Quintet (Frank London, trumpet; Marcus Rojas, tuba; Davey Williams, electric guitar; Gregg Bendian, drums, vibraphone, percussion; and Anne LeBaron, harp with electronics).

Award session

Axess Electronics Ltd, or Session, were an electronics manufacture based in Basingstoke, Hampshire during the 1980s, specialising in guitar amplification.

Bhawani Shankar Chowdhry

He is currently working as Meritorious Professor (in Grade 22) and Dean of the Faculty of Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering at the Mehran University of Engineering and Technology.

Bora Yoon

Yoon’s wide-ranging talents have led to collaborative performances with electronics giant SAMSUNG, media philosopher DJ Spooky, and the late poet Sekou Sundiata in the America Project and multimedia swansong: The 51st (dream) state.

Charles G. Boyd

He is a member of the board of directors at defense electronics firm, DRS Technologies; graphics software firm, Forterra Systems; and venture capitalists In-Q-Tel, who support the work of the Central Intelligence Agency.

CMX 600

The first rack contained the interface electronics for the system, monitoring equipment, and a Digital PDP-11 minicomputer with 32 kilobytes of RAM, which controlled the system.

Conn's

is an electronics and appliance store chain headquartered in The Woodlands, Texas, United States.

CoreConnect

As such it is licensed by over 1500 electronics companies such as Cadence, Ericsson, Lucent, Nokia, Siemens and Synopsys.

El Mafrex

He graduated in 2006 from the University of Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, where he studied physics and majored in electronics.

Electronics World

Robotics, Communications, Connectors, Amplifiers, Embedded Design, Filters, Power, Test & Measurement, RF and Microwave Design, Touchscreen and Display Technologies, Microcontrollers, Systems and Components in Green Energy generation, Designing with Programmable Logic, Designing with Sensors, Audio, Analog Design, Medical Electronics, Signal Processing

ERIKA Enterprise

Thanks to the collaboration with the Tool & Methodologies team of Magneti Marelli Powertrain & Electronics, the automotive kernel (BCC1, BCC2, ECC1, ECC2, multicore, memory protection and kernel fixed priority with Diab 5.5.1 compiler) is MISRA C 2004 compliant using FlexeLint 9.00h under the configuration suggested by Magneti Marelli.

Erwin Hochmair

They built a multichannel intra-cochlear electrode, and developed all the implantable and the external electronics for the transcutaneous transmission, the coding and decoding of circuits and the electrode driving circuitry while trying to minimize the power consumption.

Film capacitor

German manufacturers such as WIMA, Roederstein, Siemens and Philips were trendsetters and leaders in a world market driven by the consumer electronics.

Guiyang

The city is also a large center for retail and wholesale commercial activities with operations of major domestic and international general retailers such as Wal-Mart, Carrefour, RT-Mart, Beijing Hualian, Parkson, and Xingli Group as well as consumer electronics and appliance sellers Gome and Suning.

Hellenic Naval Academy

Finally, officers ranked Lieutenant Junior Grade and Lieutenant, may be educated abroad (in Europe or in the USA) in schools such as NPS, MIT, the University of Michigan etc., thus becoming further specialized in fields such as electronics, weapon systems, computers, operation research, marine architecture etc.

Hhgregg

Its retail products include video products comprising televisions as well as DVD recorders; home appliances, such as refrigerators, ranges, dishwashers, freezers, washers, and dryers; and other products and services, including audio hardware, mattresses, computers, and other selected consumer electronics and accessories.

Holiday Film Festival

For most of these broadcasts the two sponsors were a local electronics chain, Crazy Eddies, and a toy store Play World.

Instituto Pedro Nunes

Some examples of successful technological companies born in or otherwise linked to the IPN, include software company Critical Software, thermo-mechanical and electronics engineering company Active Space Technologies, and biotechnology company Crioestaminal.

Jim Westwood

Sir Clive Sinclair and Westwood shared a connection even before they met when Westwood had previously worked at an electronics store in London which was owned by Bernard Babani, Sinclair's publisher.

John Allen Clark

In 1988 GEC announced a new partnership with the German electronics group Siemens to once again bid for Plessey.

José Mira Mira

In 1975, he became a Professor of Electronics in the University of Granada.

Kerry S. Harris

Harris' innovations are currently being used by the Departments of Defense of several countries to include impact attenuation (helmets), electronics, optical technology, and human-mechanical interface technology.

Kirk Martinez

He is one of the founders of the Electronics and the Visual Arts: EVA Conferences

Kistler

Kistler Group, sensors and sensor electronics for measuring pressure, force, torque and acceleration

Legality of piggybacking

In London, 2005, Gregory Straszkiewicz was the first person to be convicted of a related crime, "dishonestly obtaining an electronics communication service" (under s.125 Communications Act 2003).

Media Key Block

The system was developed by big companies from the film industry and the electronics industry including IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Matsushita (Panasonic), Sony, Toshiba, The Walt Disney Company and Warner Bros.

Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems

At that time, Dan Meyer and Don Lancaster were among the most prolific authors in Popular Electronics.

Miracast

It allows users to, for example, echo display from a phone or tablet onto a TV, share a laptop screen with the conference room projector in real-time, and watch live programs from a home cable box on a tablet.

Nicholas Byron Cavadias

Specializing in the application of electronics to aviation, Cavadias began his career at TAE Greek National Airlines in 1946 as a radio engineer before becoming a ground radar specialist with the Royal Air Force in 1953.

Onida Electronics

Mirc Electronics won an “Award for Excellence in Electronics” in 1999, from the Ministry of Information Technology, Government of India.

Pallab Ghosh

He began his career in the British electronics and computer press before joining New Scientist as the magazine's science news editor.

Retro City Rampage

The Player must work with Doc Choc to gather the rare parts needed to repair the time booth, while avoiding law enforcement, his own former employer Jester, Bayside High School students, and Dr. Von Buttnik, Doc Choc's rival and the head of R&D at A.T. Corp, a tech corporation and The Player's former employer, who's CEO, Sweat Bomber, wishes to use the time machine to control the electronics market.

Richard H. Small

He taught for a number of years at that university, but returned to industry in 1986 as Head of Research at KEF Electronics Ltd. in Maidstone, England until 1993.

Ronald L. Turner

Prior to joining Ceridian in 1993, Turner served as President and CEO of GEC-Marconi Electronic Systems, a defense electronics company, from 1987 to 1993.

Shanika Karunasekera

in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering at the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka.

Sidney H. Liebson

At a time when electronics had not been able to make measurements with nanosecond accuracy, he developed several techniques to accomplish this accuracy for measuring organic fluorescence decay times and organic scintillation pulse widths by indirect means.

Silicon-controlled rectifier

A silicon-controlled rectifier (or semiconductor-controlled rectifier) is a four-layer solid state current controlling device.

Stoppomat

The Stoppomat is equipped with electronics with printing function, a stopwatch with a DCF77 radio receiver and an independent power supply for a buffer period of one week.

Sullivan Knoll

It was named after Paul J. Sullivan, an electronics technician in support of the U.S. Antarctic Program at McMurdo Station.

TE Connectivity

On June 29, 2007, Tyco International was split and Tyco Electronics, along with Covidien, became separate, independently-traded public companies.

Triac

TRIAC (triode for alternating current), an electronics component

WiBro

February 10, 2006: Telecom Italia, the dominant telephony and internet service provider in Italy, together with Korean Samsung Electronics, has demonstrated to the public a WiBro network service on the occasion of the 2006 Winter Olympics, held in Turin, with downlink speed of 10 Mbit/s and uplink speed of some hundreds of kbit/s even in movement up to 120 km/h.

Wu Bangguo

He entered Tsinghua University in 1960, majoring in electron tube engineering at the Department of Radio Electronics, where he graduated in 1967.