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How did we get to the Age of Intelligent Machines from the first radio transmission in 125 years? There’s no one best place to start, but the amplifier is a good one. We’ll be talking about big and small numbers in the first part of this chapter, so I recommend a quick review of Numbers.
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Phipps, C. (2016). Electronics and Computers. In: No Wonder You Wonder!. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21680-5_20
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