COMPUTER HISTORY AND EVOLUTION
DEVELOPMENT OF COMPUTERS
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Question
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Mechanical Relays were replaced by what technology?
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Leibniz Wheel
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Vacuum Tubes
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Plug Boards
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Electric Motors
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Transistors made of semiconductors replaced tubes in the construction of computers. By replacing bulky and unreliable vacuum tubes with transistors, computers could now perform the same functions, using less power and space. From Mary Bellis, Your Guide to Inventors.
Detailed explanation-2: -Physicist Walter Brattain shared the 1956 Nobel Prize with William Shockley and John Bardeen for jointly inventing the transistor, a device that replaced the bulky and fragile vacuum tube in electronic equipment.
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