Electronic system. Any technical system is an assembly of components that are connected
together to form a functioning machine or an operational procedure. An electronic system
includes some common used electrical devices, such as resistors, capacitors, transformers,
inductors (choke coils), frames, etc., and a few classes of semiconductor devices (diodes,
thyristors, and transistors). They are joined to control the load operation.
Historical facts. An English physicist W. Hilbert proposed the term “electricity” as far back
as 1700. In 1744, H. Rihman founded the first electrotechnical laboratory in the Russian
Academy of Science. Here, M. Lomonosov stated the relation of electricity on the “nature