...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...
Colt of Destiny by Alida Malkus
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For the decade of the 1780’s in my American history journey, I read Colt of
Destiny, a book in the LAND OF THE FREE series (Winston) set in the early
days ...
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