Crystal Fire: The Birth of the Information Age by Lillian Hoddeson, Michael Riordan

Crystal Fire: The Birth of the Information Age

Lillian Hoddeson, Michael Riordan

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On December 16, 1947, two physicists at Bell Laboratories, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain, jabbed two electrodes into a sliver of germanium half an inch long. The electrical power coming out of that piece of germanium was 100 times stronger than...

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