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Electronics & Power

Volume 25, Issue 5, May 1979

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Volume 25, Issue 5

May 1979

Focus
Ambitious French semiconductor plans at an expanded Paris Show
What future for i.c. firms?
Optical fibres go under water
Kent micros check plant status
Music swings to micro tempo
Transformers: another firm pulls out
Data networks in the 1980s
NEB in new peripherals drive
View data systems for business
US satellite cut industry costs
Measuring techniques. Thermal analysis tests insulation
Law. The sad case of the redudant apprentice
Components. Diamond saw cuts wafers cleanly
Broadcasting judgment
Citizens' band radio
Oil and water
Effects of static
Engineers' status
CEI elections
Psychical research
Not so super?
Innovation and enterprise
European peripherals centred on Britain
Stored energy transmission for road vehicles
  • Author(s): J.R.A. Beale
  • Source: Electronics & Power, Volume 25, Issue 5, p. 323 –328
  • DOI:  10.1049/ep.1979.0206
  • Type: Article
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  • p. 323 –328 (6)
    A general-purpose motor vehicle would use less than half the fuel on an average journey if its engine could be properly matched to the task. Proper matching requires an energy store and this should be a flywheel to avoid the need for energy conversion and the consequent losses. The difficulties in using a small geared-up flywheel for such a purpose lie-mainly in its control, but these can now be solved with the help of large-scale-integration of digital circuitry. To illustrate these principles, a stored-energy transmission system is described which offers several advantages in addition to fuel saving
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Information engineering and electronics
  • Author(s): F.J.M. Laver
  • Source: Electronics & Power, Volume 25, Issue 5, p. 329 –332
  • DOI:  10.1049/ep.1979.0207
  • Type: Article
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  • p. 329 –332 (4)
    Information is wispy elusive stuff, although that has never prevented engineers from setting about handling it; indeed, it gave rise to one of the first applications of electricity, and the IEE began as ‘The Society of Telegraph Engineers’. Today, after years of tranquil obsolescence, telegraph engineering has returned to fashion as everyone, reading the writing on the wall, tries to get into the pulsating all-digital act
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A management information system for power system studies
  • Author(s): G.Z. Ben-Yaacov
  • Source: Electronics & Power, Volume 25, Issue 5, p. 333 –338
  • DOI:  10.1049/ep.1979.0208
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    The South African Electricity Supply Commission has developed a data-management system for power-system studies. By using a single command language, an engineer can obtain, via the data-base management system, the data describing a particular power system network. The data-base facilities enable the engineer to store and maintain his power-system data, either interactively or via a batch-processing system. This package has been used for a number of years, and has proved to be a valuable tool for both planning and the operation of power-system networks
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Review of potential hydroelectric development in the Scottish Highlands
Amorphous ribbon materials and their possibilities
  • Author(s): K.J. Overshott
  • Source: Electronics & Power, Volume 25, Issue 5, p. 347 –350
  • DOI:  10.1049/ep.1979.0210
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    The magnetic properties of a new type of material, the amorphous alloys, appear to have advantages over those of existing magnetic materials, e.g. lower power loss. But the new material is not yet completely acceptable. The present research and development programme is aimed principally at improving dimensional quality, increasing saturation flux density and lowering the power loss further, all of which should make the new material commercially viable in the 1980s
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Some applications of molecular electronics
  • Author(s): D.W.G. Byatt
  • Source: Electronics & Power, Volume 25, Issue 5, p. 351 –354
  • DOI:  10.1049/ep.1979.0211
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  • p. 351 –354 (4)
    Since the turn of this century at least, physics has been dominated by atomic and subatomic phenomena. The search for the fundamental particle has led scientists into a deeper understanding of a world which has brought forth electronics, solid-state physics and the semiconductor devices that exert such a large influence on all aspects of contemporary life. However, mother nature's greatest marvels frequently show scant dependence on the purity of elemental crystals, at least when providing the mechanism for energy conversion or power generation. Here, the complex molecules of organic chemistry hold sway
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Recent innovations in semiconductor materials
Engineering and the national context
Semiconductors
Modern Network Theory—An Introduction
Electronic Filters
Positional Astronomy and Astronavigation Made Easy
Computer Aided Circuit Design
Transmission Lines for Communications
Microcomputer Design
Rotating Electric Machinery and Transformer Technology
Books received

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