Volta, Ampere, Ohm, Faraday, Henry and Maxwell come visiting

[KM4FER]

An interesting thought....

Just suppose the pioneers of electronics came to visit your lab.  Would they be able to understand your test equipment, your project, WiFi?

I think they would.

Of course Maxwell would just shrug his shoulders and say "I told you so!"

earl...

[KedasProbe]

Trying to get them out of your lab will be a challenge though. 
(imagine yourself being forwarded in a future lab)

[daqq]

Eventually, after many weeks of explaining possibly

I'm guessing that they might understand the technology and the principles involved eventually, but they might not understand the reasons for some of the items (WiFi) - getting the concept of, say, the internet through to certain people (elderly most of the time) can be a challenge. Explaining voltage and current might be simpler by comparison.

[deephaven]

They would be great people to show the technology to because they would realise the significance of what you are showing them, they would all go "wow" if they knew that word. This would be much more rewarding than showing someone from today the stuff because either they are already engineers and know about GHz+ processors and multi-GBytes in your mobile phone whilst non-engineers would just say "So? It's just a mobile phone".

[Howardlong]

I think they'll wonder where all your books are.

I finally threw out my extensive reference book collection only four months ago, well 85% of it anyway. Eight full car loads, and the suspension wasn't at all happy.

The advent of the tablet has completely turned around the way I read. Strangely enough, I still hate reading documents on a monitor or laptop, but the tablet seems just right.

[dannyf]

Would they be able to understand your test equipment, your project, WiFi?

People are smart not because they understand things, but because they ****can**** understand things.