...He built the first integrated circuit using borrowed equipment in 1958. The "integration" consists of adding all of the components of a chip onto one paper clip-size piece of semiconductor.
Until integrated circuits miniaturized technology, computers were room-sized machines with bulky switches and vacuum
tubes.
Kilby held more than 60 U.S. patents, including one filed in 1959 for a circuit made of the element germanium. Bob Noyce, co-founder of chip maker Intel Corp., later mass produced the chips using silicon...
Incident at Hawk’s Hill by Allan W. Eckert
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Benjamin MacDonald is the six year old younger son of William and Esther
MacDonald. The year is 1870, and the place is somewhere to the north of
Winnipeg, ...
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