FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER

TELECOMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS

THE COMPONENTS OF A TELECOMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What is the invention that put radio into it’s modern form?
A
glass
B
Copper wire
C
The Audible Tube
D
The Audion Tube
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Dr. Lee De Forest was an inventor, engineer, and the self-styled “Father of Radio.” In 1906, De Forest invented the Audion tube, allowing the detection and amplification of weak radio signals. As the first triode vacuum tube, the Audion revolutionized radio broadcasting–and made it more practical.

Detailed explanation-2: -Lee De Forest invented the audion, a vacuum tube device that could take a weak electrical signal and amplify it into a larger one.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Audion was an electronic detecting or amplifying vacuum tube invented by American electrical engineer Lee de Forest in 1906. It was the first triode, consisting of an evacuated glass tube containing three electrodes: a heated filament, a grid, and a plate.

Detailed explanation-4: -Radio owes its development to two other inventions: the telegraph and the telephone. All three technologies are closely related, and radio technology actually began as “wireless telegraphy."

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