04-06-2017, 10:41 AM
This is getting good. 
I don’t think there is one correct or definitive answer.
I could say that electronics began with early electronic communication – which really started with the electromagnet and telegraphy. (Is it not a device, and controlled electronically?) The headphones – controlled electronically or not?
Or
I could say that electronics began with early electronic telephony communication – converting sound waves to electrical waves and back again.
Or
I could say that electronics began with wireless communication (telegraphy) which really started with the spark gap transmitter. Same concept as wired telegraphy system just better, more sophisticated electronic devices enabling us to dispense with wires.
Or (you guessed it)
I could say that electronics began with wireless communication (telephony) with again even more sophisticated electronic devices.
Just for an example here are a couple of early electronic devices I picked up last Tuesday
1922 - 1923. definitely electronic devices?
I don’t think there is one correct or definitive answer.
I could say that electronics began with early electronic communication – which really started with the electromagnet and telegraphy. (Is it not a device, and controlled electronically?) The headphones – controlled electronically or not?
Or
I could say that electronics began with early electronic telephony communication – converting sound waves to electrical waves and back again.
Or
I could say that electronics began with wireless communication (telegraphy) which really started with the spark gap transmitter. Same concept as wired telegraphy system just better, more sophisticated electronic devices enabling us to dispense with wires.
Or (you guessed it)
I could say that electronics began with wireless communication (telephony) with again even more sophisticated electronic devices.
Just for an example here are a couple of early electronic devices I picked up last Tuesday
1922 - 1923. definitely electronic devices?
