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An LC resonator is passive and not considered an electronic device. An electronic device is considered one that works with electrons, a device that recognizes electrons as things. L's and C's were in use before anyone knew there was such a thing as an electron. It was just "the electric fluid".
The first electronic device was invented by Edison as a side effect of trying to determine why one end of the filament in his incandescent lamps, running on DC, would weaken faster than the other end. To try and understand it he added a third electrode and discovered that somehow not all the current traveled through the filament but some hopped out into the vacuum and traveled that way. He patented it but it came to nothing.
Then in 1904, Fleming created the first electron tube, a diode. This was the practical electronic device. Then Deforest created the triode, which amplified, and so on.
Inductors and capacitors are considered electrical devices and were recognized as components by Faraday, 75 years before the first electronic device came along.
@PeeBeeJayBee @ClaraListensprechen@universeodon.com @Ralph058 @SrRochardBunson @sergio_101 @LGsMom Haha. It is sort of a nit-picky distinction that's not crystal clear. (that's a little joke.) And the simplistic definitions we gave have some holes. For example, a magnetic amplifier amplifies but is not an electronic device, but electrical.
It's probably better to say an electronic device depends on an awareness of these things called electrons and that electrons are negatively charged. Or something like that.
Edison's experiments I mentioned elsewhere noted that the mysterious current that traveled through the vacuum was negatively charged.
@shuttersparks @ClaraListensprechen @Ralph058 @SrRochardBunson @sergio_101 @LGsMom i was today yrs old when I learnt all that! Thank you😁