Crystal Fire: The Invention of the Transistor and the Birth of the Information Age (Revised) Susanne Lang ISBN13: 9780985407223

ISBN13: 9780985407223

An enslaved maternal line is traced to 1799

ISBN10: 1894154363

A baby has been

Living on the edge as fugitives

Crystal Fire: The Invention of the Transistor and the Birth of the Information Age (Revised) Susanne Lang ISBN13: 9780985407223On December 16, 1947, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain, physicists at Bell Laboratories, jabbed two electrodes into a sliver of germanium. The power flowing from the germanium 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, but the story of the science and personalities that made these inventions