History of the Printed Circuit Board or PCB

History of the Printed Circuit Board or PCB

When you think about your stereo, or your Television, you probably aren't imagining the connectors and wires inside of it. You probably aren't even thinking about how it works. You just know that it does, and it makes your life a little more fun.

Thanks to the invention of the Printed Circuit Board, lots of technology has advanced by becoming smaller, and much less bulky. It has allowed many of our favorite inventions to become much more efficient. During the year of 1936, a man named Paul Eisler was working in England on a radio. He is the man who is credited for creating the very first Printed Circuit Board, or PCB, which was then used in the U.S. on a large scale for uses in World War II. Printed Circuit Boards didn't even really become common in the residential household until about the mid-1950's when the U.S. Army created the "auto-sembly" production method.

So, what is a PCB or Printed Circuit Board? They are used to electrically connect other electronic components using conductive pathways, tracks, or signal traces etched from copper which are laminated onto a non-conductive substrate, typically a kind of fiberglass. PCBs can also be referred to as Printed Wiring Boards or PWB or etched wiring boards. A Printed Circuit Board with electronic components is called a Printed Circuit Assembly or PCA, also known as a Printed Circuit Board Assembly or PCBA. Printed circuit boards are used in everything from telephones to Grade Control Sensors.

Below are two sources we found for how to make a printed circuit board, one is for an advanced home user, and the other how they are made at a factory;

Factory Made

*These videos are for educational purposes only, and not for actual use. Combotronics does not assume any responsibility or liability for others' actions to follow either of the above videos!*

As you can tell from the above videos, printed circuit boards are interesting and even though they can seem complex and hard to understand, they make our lives easier and less bulky and are worth the time and effort put into them. At Combotronics, we definitely put time and effort into our repairs and rebuilds of any printed circuit board and we deal with all kinds of them; from input/output modules, to control panels. If you have any PCBs, PWBs, PCAs, PCBAs, that need a quick look over, we can check them out with our free evaluation, and fix them with our quick turnaround times. We even work on obsolete boards and parts, or those boards or parts that are no longer being made, so you know we know our boards!

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Posted by Combotronics Team