I have been writing articles for magazines since the early 1970s, and many of these have been published in Electronics World (founded in 1911 as The Marconigraph but known for most of its life as Wireless World). This is undoubtedly the foremost electronics magazine in the UK, being widely read by professional electronics engineers on the one...

For tens of thousands of years the human race used their muscles and the labor of animals to build a world that differed little from that known by all their ancestors. But in 1776 James Watt installed the fi rst of his improved steam engines in a commercial enterprise, kicking off the industrial revolution.

The 1800s were...

Over the last 40 years, Principles of Transistor Circuits has provided students and practitioners with a text they can rely on to keep them at the forefront of transistor circuit design.

Although integrated circuits have widespread application, the role of discrete transistors both as important building blocks which students...