27 Sep
2012
27 Sep
'12
12:14 p.m.
On Sep 27, 2012, at 1:53 PM, Chris Tofu wrote:
From: Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com>
Because Shockley (and his massive employer) commercialized it and made
the transistor an everyday thing because they were the phone company.
Money buys you a lot of history; ask Andrew Carnegie.
- Dave
> About a year ago, I worked on an estate of a
man that made transistors
> in his basement - but then he was a Bell Labs semiconductor physicist.
> Oh, and he was doing this 25-some years ago...
On Thu, 27 Sep 2012, Chris Tofu wrote:
C: He was? I thought they were doing *that* 60+
years ago.
Even earlier (Lilienfeld FET in Canada 1925)
C: I don't know. Canadians seem to bat 1,000 when it comes to innovation. I think
I'm becoming jealous here.
I'm probably not the first one on the list to be informed of this. Why all the
hubbub over Shockley then???