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Shockley, William Bradford
context of 20th century technological advances
description of first transistor
impact of transistor on computer design
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1948: Electronics
In the February 1948 number of
Electrical Engineering,
J. G. Brainerd and T. K. Sharpless of the Moore School of Electrical Engineering of the University of Pennsylvania described the Eniac (Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer), which is the first high-speed, large-scale electronic...
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