Crystal Fire
The Birth of the Information Age
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1997
WW Norton & Co (Verlag)
978-0-393-04124-8 (ISBN)
WW Norton & Co (Verlag)
978-0-393-04124-8 (ISBN)
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This is the story of the transistor, one of the most important inventions of the 20th century, which was invented at the Bell Laboratories in December 1947 by John Bardeen and Walter Brattain and developed by their co-Nobel Prize winner, William Shockley.
On December 16, 1947, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain, physicists at Bell Laboratories, jabbed two electrodes into a sliver of the metalloid geranium. The power flowing from the geranium 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 transistor and the microchip it spawned. This is the story of the science and personalities that made these inventions possible. William Shockley, Bell Labs' team leader and co-recipient of the Nobel Prize with Brattain and Bardeen for the discovery, grew obsessed with the transistor and went on to become the father of Silicon Valley. The process of invention - including the competition and economic aspirations involved - all part of the greatest technological explosion in history is surveyed here.
On December 16, 1947, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain, physicists at Bell Laboratories, jabbed two electrodes into a sliver of the metalloid geranium. The power flowing from the geranium 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 transistor and the microchip it spawned. This is the story of the science and personalities that made these inventions possible. William Shockley, Bell Labs' team leader and co-recipient of the Nobel Prize with Brattain and Bardeen for the discovery, grew obsessed with the transistor and went on to become the father of Silicon Valley. The process of invention - including the competition and economic aspirations involved - all part of the greatest technological explosion in history is surveyed here.
Lillian Hoddeson is an historian at the University of Illinois and lives in Urbana. Research for Crystal Fire was sponsored by the Sloan Foundation. Stanford University physicist Michael Riordan has written several popular books on science and technology. He lives in Santa Cruz, California.
| Reihe/Serie | Sloan Technology Series |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 165 x 244 mm |
| Gewicht | 780 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Technikgeschichte |
| Naturwissenschaften | |
| Technik ► Elektrotechnik / Energietechnik | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-393-04124-7 / 0393041247 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-393-04124-8 / 9780393041248 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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