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Crystal Fire: The Birth of the Information Age (Sloan Technology Series)
Crystal Fire The Birth of the Information Age - Sloan Technology Series
Author: Michael Riordan, Lillian Hoddeson
An eloquent retelling of the story behind one of the twentieth century's miracle advances the transistor. On December 16, 1947, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain, physicists at Bell Laboratories, jabbed two electrodes into a sliver of germanium. The power coming out of the germanium was one hundred times stronger than what went in. With that, the...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780393041248
ISBN-10: 0393041247
Publication Date: 8/1997
Pages: 352
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Publisher: W. W. Norton Company
Book Type: Hardcover
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