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Crystal Fire: The Invention of the Transistor and the Birth of the Information Age (Sloan Technology Series)
Crystal Fire The Invention of the Transistor and the Birth of the Information Age - Sloan Technology Series
Author: Michael Riordan, Lillian Hoddeson
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 life as the tr...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780393318517
ISBN-10: 0393318516
Publication Date: 12/1998
Pages: 368
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Publisher: W. W. Norton Company
Book Type: Paperback
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