Last updated on March 14, 2016 by scary for kids. Four stories about scary phone calls. Thereâs something very unnerving about strange phonecalls in the middle of the night and unidentified voices on the other end. I grew up on a farm in a remote area and I have always been uneasy about being in the house by myself at night.
1 What present-day device did the invention of the transistor most directly influence? automobile light bulb atomic bomb laptop computer. 2  What present-day device did the invention of the transistor most directly influence? automobile light bulb atomic bomb laptop computer.
7. Image: Thomas Edison. The history of electronics is a story of the twentieth century and three key componentsâthe vacuum tube, the transistor, and the integrated circuit. In 1883, Thomas Alva Edison discovered that electrons will flow from one metal conductor to another through a vacuum.mage: Multiple Radio Tuner of Marconi, 1907 â Marconi Collection of the da Vinci Museum, Milano, Italy. The first applications of electron tubes were in radio communications. Guglielmo Marconi pioneered the development of the wireless telegraph in 1896 and long-distance radio communication in 1901.