by minicircuitsadmin | Mar 24, 2021 | Mini-Circuits Life
Brandon Kaplan, Marketing Communications Summary: The theremin was one of the world’s first electronic instruments and perhaps the only instrument you play without ever touching it.It uses two simple principles of physics and engineering, capacitance and heterodyning,...
by minicircuitsadmin | Mar 12, 2021 | Mini-Circuits Life
By Jacqueline Hochheiser, Corporate Communications Experimental physicist Heinrich Hertz played an instrumental role in the development of wireless communication, although he didn’t believe that his discovery had any practical use at the time. Hertz became an...
by minicircuitsadmin | Feb 12, 2021 | Mini-Circuits Life
Daniel Gordon, Contributor “There is no demand for women engineers, as such, as there are for women doctors; but there’s always a demand for anyone who can do a good piece of work.”– Edith Clarke, 1948 Whether you planned to pursue a career in science,...
by minicircuitsadmin | Jan 27, 2021 | Mini-Circuits Life
Jacqueline Hochheiser, Corporate Communications When LORAN, long range navigation, arrived on the scene in the 1940s, it was the first technology of its time capable of pinpointing a receiver’s location. LORAN survived nearly 60 years before it was finally declared...
by minicircuitsadmin | Dec 17, 2020 | Mini-Circuits Life
Jacqueline Hochheiser, Corporate Communications As the first form of wireless technology, the spark-gap telegraph enabled long distance communication and changed the way people around the world connected. In the early 1900s, the spark-gap telegraph was mainly used on...
by minicircuitsadmin | Dec 16, 2020 | Mini-Circuits Life
Brandon Kaplan, Corporate Communications Summary: Existing options for sterilization of PPE such as dry heat and germicidal UV light take a minimum of 30 minutes to effectively disinfect static objects.Microwave radiation has the potential to dramatically improve the...
