The Thermionic Age in Brazil

The first book ever published on the history of thermionic valve and kinescope-making in Brazil. In its chapters the book covers firstly the valve as an imported technology and the factors which pressed the local and foreign enterprises to start a long-term nationalization project for its manufacturing, which consequently led to the local industrialization of kinescopes considering the boom of television transmissions started in the country in 1950.

Autorentext

Carlos Alberto Fazano, Brazilian, holds a degree in chemistry. He has published two books on laboratory instrumentation. He studied electronics by assembling valve radios and audio amplifiers, starting his strong interest in the history of electronics. Recently, he has published the book The Electron Age 100 Years of Progress in Electronics .