Printed Circuit Boards or PCBs have
been instrumental in the development of smarter and lighter electronic
appliances. Before the invention of PCBs, a simple computer used to take up the
space of a room and the early supercomputers took up several rooms of equipment
space. The one thing that a Printed Circuit Board eliminated in electronic
appliance is bulk- none of the equipments are bulky anymore and they have
become smaller, smarter and far more efficient than others.
Printed Circuit Boards manufacturing is a multi-billion dollar industry now which has a
global reach. The industry was kick started with the invention of PCBs but
there is no single inventor. There have been a lot of contributors to the development
of the Printed Circuit Boards.
It has been of the common opinion that PCB assembly
started way back in 1903 (More than a hundred years ago) by Albert Hanson, a
German Inventor. He hypothesized a flat foil conductor being laminated to an
insulating board and on this hypothesis, the great inventor Thomas Alva Edison did
an experiment with chemical process of plating conductors on linen paper.
The next development was done by Arthur Berry in
1913 who patented the print or etching technique on the PCB. Charles Durcase patented
the process of electroplating circuit patterns in 1927. These gradual
developments led to the final phase in Printed Circuit Board Assembly which is
the introduction of the boards in almost every electrical appliance and
subsequently led to mass production of the boards.
The boom in production led
several PCB Maker to capitalize on it which subsequently led to
the introduction of faster and smarter electronic appliances which had a range
of services.
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