Building tiny transistors

Title
Building tiny transistors

Personal Author EPSB
Glen. Phelan

Summary
Discusses the team of Shockley, Brattain, and Bardeen, inventors of the transistor, and De Forest, the inventor of the vacuum tube. Examines how transistors changed the world of computing and communications.

Year Published
2003
 
1900-1999

Series
National Geographic reading expeditions ;

Physical Description
40 p. : ill. (some col.), ports. ; 23 cm.

Subject
Transistors.
 
Electronics -- History.
 
Scientists -- Biography.

Added Corporate Author
National Geographic Society (U.S.)

Summary
Discusses the team of Shockley, Brattain, and Bardeen, inventors of the transistor, and De Forest, the inventor of the vacuum tube. Examines how transistors changed the world of computing and communications.

ISBN
9780792288978

Publisher
Washington, D.C. : National Geographic Society, c2003.


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