TITLE:
The chip : how two Americans invented the microchip and launched a revolution / by T.R. Reid.
By:
Publication Date:
1984
Publication Information:
New York : Simon and Schuster,
Physical Description:
243 p., [8] p. of plates : ill.
Subject Term:
Bibliography Note:
Bibliography: p. 209-236.
Summary:
Barely fifty years ago a computer was a gargantuan, vastly expensive thing that only a handful of scientists had ever seen. The world’s brightest engineers were stymied in their quest to make these machines small and affordable until the solution finally came from two ingenious young Americans. Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce hit upon the stunning discovery that would make possible the silicon microchip, a work that would ultimately earn Kilby the Nobel Prize for physics in 2000.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780671453930
General Note:
Includes index.
