Electronic genie : the tangled history of silicon / Frederick Seitz and Norman G. Einspruch.
Electronic genie : the tangled history of silicon / Frederick Seitz and Norman G. Einspruch.
Electronic genie : the tangled history of silicon / Frederick Seitz and Norman G. Einspruch.
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Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1998.
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N621.38109/2
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English
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xvi, 281 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
1. Roots -- 2. Wireless Telegraphy -- 3. Vacuum Tube Era -- 4. Semiconductors -- 5. Rectification -- 6. Radar -- 7. German Radar -- 8. French Radar -- 9. Soviet Radar -- 10. British Radar -- 11. The United States: The Radiation Laboratory -- 12. Japanese Radar -- 13. The Bell Telephone Laboratories...
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Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1998.
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Illinois
Date Published
c1998.
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Electronic Genie takes its readers on a two-century journey that begins with Antoine Lavoisiter's prediction of the existence of silicon as an element. It traces the emergence of silicon as key to the development of most forms of today's electronics and its role in making possible the revolutionary digital computer. Loaded with information about su...
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Electronic genie : the tangled history of silicon / Frederick Seitz and Norman G. Einspruch.
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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c1998.
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N621.38109/2
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74VM46jlgajA
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0252023838 (cloth : acid-free paper)
9780252023835 (cloth : acid-free paper)
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621.38109
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991001356209702626
