The Chip : How Two Americans Invented the Microchip and Launched a Revolution

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Paperback with picture of the two inventors.
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Barely fifty years ago a pc was a gargantuan, vastly expensive thing that only a handful of scientists had ever seen. The world’s brightest engineers were stymied in their quest to make these machines small and affordable until the solution in spite of everything came from two ingenious young Americans. Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce hit upon the stunning discovery that would make conceivable the silicon microchip, a work that would in the end earn Kilby the Nobel Prize for physics in 2000. In this completely revised and up to date edition of The Chip, T.R. Reid tells the gripping adventure story of their invention and of its growth into a global information industry. This is the story of how the digital age began.
They’re all over, but where did they come from? Silicon chips drive just about everything that sucks power, from toys to heart monitors, but their inventors don’t seem to be nearly as widely referred to as Edison and Ford. Journalist T.R. Reid has thoroughly up to date The Chip, his 1985 exploration of the life work of inventors Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce, to reflect the colossal shift toward smarter gadgets that has taken place since then.

Satisfying as both biography and basic science text, the book perfectly captures the independence and near-obsessive problem-solving talents of the two men. Though in the end only one of them (Noyce) ended up with legal rights to the invention, they shared a respect for each other that persisted all over their careers. Since Kilby won the 2000 Nobel Prize for Physics for his work, the story is all of the more compelling and intriguing over 40 years after the invention. Reid’s work uncovers human dimensions we’d never expect to see from 1950s engineering research. –Rob Lightner
Paperback with picture of the two inventors.
5 x 8

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