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Crystal Fire: The Invention of the Transistor and the Birth of the Information Age (Revised) Paperback - 1998
by Michael Riordan; Lillian Hoddeson
No other devices have been as crucial to modern life as the transistor and the microchip it spawned, but the story of the science and personalities that made these inventions possible has not been fully told until now. Riordan and Hoddeson offer a deeply human account of one of the greatest technological explosions in history. Photos.
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William Shockley was extremely agitated.
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- Title Crystal Fire: The Invention of the Transistor and the Birth of the Information Age (Revised)
- Author Michael Riordan; Lillian Hoddeson
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 2nd Revised
- Pages 366
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher W. W. Norton & Company, Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
- Date 1998-12-01
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated
- ISBN 9780393318517 / 0393318516
- Weight 0.91 lbs (0.41 kg)
- Dimensions 8.17 x 5.47 x 0.86 in (20.75 x 13.89 x 2.18 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Electronics - History, Transistors - History
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 00000000
- Dewey Decimal Code 621.381
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- New York Times, 01/17/1999, Page 32
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