The singing arc: the oldest memristor?
Abstract
On April 30th 2008, the journal Nature announced that the missing circuit element, postulated thirty-seven years before by Professor Leon O. Chua has been found. Thus, after the capacitor, the resistor and the inductor, the existence of a fourth fundamental element of electronic circuits called "memristor" was established. In order to point out the importance of such a discovery, the aim of this article is first to propose an overview of the manner with which the three others have been invented during the past centuries. Then, a comparison between the main properties of the singing arc, i.e. a forerunner device of the triode used in Wireless Telegraphy, and that of the memristor will enable to state that the singing arc could be considered as the oldest memristor.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1408.5103,
title = {The singing arc: the oldest memristor?},
author = {Jean-Marc Ginoux and Bruno Rossetto},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1408.5103},
year = {2017}
}