A typescript of Kilby's 1951 paper entitled "Transistors -- Their Manufacture and Use." 14 pp. + title and bibliography pages. In a folder with an attached offprint of an article from Scientific American: Louis N. Ridenour, "A Revolution in Electronics," Aug. 1951, Vol. 185, No. 2, pp. 13-17.
1 series.
Kilby, who later won the Nobel Prize, is credited as an inventor of the world's first integrated circuit (computer chip).
Collection donated by Jack Kilby and Johnson Controls.
Donated by Jack Kilby and Johnson Controls.
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Jack Kilby Manuscript, 1951, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.
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