Зайцева Ю.П. I ndust г ial elect г onics

everyday purposes. They help to do jobs better or more
rationally

than before and take over jobs that couldn’t be done otherwise.
So, industrial electronics undoubtedly plays а very important role today.
You can easily find many electronic equipments at home: а tape recorder,
а ТV set, an МРЗ player, а computer and many others. The application and use of electronic equipments demands а good knowledge of their fundamentals.

inside any
transistor or microchip (and previously, in radio tubes) electric

current
passes through the space (or semiconductor) separating certain parts in this detail. Such action is called electronic. lt's not difficult to imagine it because the same happens in lightning. There you actually see how electricity jumps through space. The first electronic equipments used radio lamps.

(predecessors of modem calculators),
computers (which occupied big rooms), tape recorders.
The

next stage came when transistors were invented. The devices became more powerful and much smaller. The number of devices increased greatly, some multifunctional devices appeared (radio + tape recorder).

next period was the period of microchips. They helped to

reduce big parts of devices, computers and other devices.
Тhе latest period of industrial electronics development is the period of total digitization of all electronic devices, making them compatible with the computer.

cards, cassettes
and video cassettes are out of use. Television is

also becoming digital.
Industrial electronics is а great part of our leisure time, it makes
people's lives easier, and reduces their working time.

what purposes are electronic equipments used now? What do
they help

us to do?
2. Industrial electronics plays an important role today, doesn't it?
3. What electronic equipments are usually found at home? What can
you find at home?
4. Where do you actually see how electricity jumps through space?
5. Why did computers become smaller when microchips were introduced?
6. How is the 1atest period of industrial electronics development
called?
7. What devices became compatible with computer?
8. What does electronics mean in our life?
9. Do you think that electronics does only good to people?
10. What will bе the next period of industrial electronics development, in your opinion?