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Hardcover Crystal Fire: The Birth of the Information Age Book

ISBN: 0393041247

ISBN13: 9780393041248

Crystal Fire: The Invention of the Transistor and the Birth of the Information Age (Sloan Technology Series)

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On December 16, 1947, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain, physicists at Bell Laboratories, jabbed two electrodes into a sliver of the metalloid geranium. The power flowing from the geranium 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. This is the story of the science and personalities that made these inventions possible.

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