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Physicist Isaac Newton wrote, “If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants”. The field of electronics is no different; we could not have the technology we have today without the contributions of thousands of brilliant people. This series of articles is about them. by Dr David Maddison
A man in the same league with Thomas Edison, the Wright Brothers and Alexander Graham Bell was born in Jefferson City. Yet this man, Jack St. Clair Kilby, is not familiar to most. His invention, the "integrated circuit," would launch the information age.
A Dallas engineer you’ve probably never heard of has done more to change our daily lives than almost anyone else alive. How? He invented the silicon chip.
An excerpt from ‘The Art and Science of Frugal Innovation’, by Malavika Dadlani, Anil Wali, and Kaushik Mukerjee.
The history of the most important invention of the 20th century: the transistor. Also... see the television documentary hosted by Ira Flatow, airing on local PBS stations in the fall of 1999. This site is a co-production of ScienCentral, Inc. and The American Institute of Physics, and the TV documentary is a co-production of Twin Cities Public Television and ScienCentral.