Posted
August 23, 2013
Radios!
Electronics! The flip-flop circuit!
Born
on this date in 1875, the British physicist William Eccles worked
with early radio
technology. He was concerned with increasing the distance that radio
waves could be transmitted and studied sources of interference of
radio waves. He worked with the glass tubes that old radios depended
on, and he went on to work on the cutting edge of his field:
electronic circuit development. He worked with another scientist to
design the flip-flop circuit that became the basis of electronic
memory in computers.
Eccles
even ended up in the early work of the BBC, now world famous for
radio and television broadcasting.
What
is a flip-flop circuit?
We
are definitely not talking about swimming pool footwear!
A
flip-flop circuit is an electronic circuit that has two stable
states. It can be switched between those two states with an input
signal.
Flip-flop
circuits are used with vacuum tubes and transistors, logic gates and
computer memory.
High-low,
up-down, 0-1, on-off—however you think of it, a flip-flop circuit
can be set and then can hold that setting until it is reset.
- Learn more about electronic engineering here.
- This page talks about flip-flop circuits.
Also
on this date:
Here
are my Pinterest pages on August
holidays, historical
anniversaries in August,
and August
birthdays.
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here are my Pinterest pages on September
holidays, historical
anniversaries in September,
and September
birthdays.
