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Crystal Fire: The Invention of the Transistor and the Birth of the Information Age (Sloan Technology Series)
Michael Riordan, Lillian Hoddeson
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| #949427 in Books | Lillian Hoddeson | 1998-12-17 | 1998-12-17 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.30 x1.00 x5.60l,.91 | File type: PDF | 352 pages | Crystal Fire The Invention of the Transistor and the Birth of the Information Age||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Fabulous Stories!|By David Shores|The authors described the complex interplay of personalities involved in the process of creating the transistor. The inventors (William Shockley, John Bardeen, and Walter Brattain) worked together the following ways: 1. Bardeen was a deep thinker, and seldom spoke. Whenever he did say something, EVERYONE LISTENED. 2. Brattain was a ve|.com |The microchip at the heart of your computer is a complex device, but its historical origins go back to one crude-looking little gadget made up of a wedge of plastic, a strip of gold foil, a rough-hewn slab of crystallized germanium, some wires, and a bent
"Without the invention of the transistor, I'm quite sure that the PC would not exist as we know it today."―Bill Gates
On December 16, 1947, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain, physicists at Bell Laboratories, jabbed two electrodes into a sliver of germanium. The power flowing from the germanium far exceeded what went in; in that moment the transistor was invented and the Information Age was born. No other devices have been as crucial to modern lif...
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