History of The World Game
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Philo Fansworth Television?
In 1926 in Scotland, John Logie Baird demonstrated a machine that transmits movie pictures using radio technology, calling it a televisor. It was based on a 1884 idea by German Paul Nipkow. At the same time, Philo Fansworth was toiling away in San Francisco on his concept for television. The two men met a few months later, and Baird had to agree that Farnsworths electronic design was the better. They werent the only ones working on a TV model, though. Vladmir Zworykin, a Russian immigrant to New York, was working on cathode-ray tubes, with the backing of David Sarnoff, the tech-savvy marketer who started NBC. In 1928, Farnsworths television sets made it to the market first, at $75 apiece
In 1926 in Scotland, John Logie Baird demonstrated a machine that transmits movie pictures using radio technology, calling it a televisor. It was based on a 1884 idea by German Paul Nipkow. At the same time, Philo Fansworth was toiling away in San Francisco on his concept for television. The two men met a few months later, and Baird had to agree that Farnsworths electronic design was the better. They werent the only ones working on a TV model, though. Vladmir Zworykin, a Russian immigrant to New York, was working on cathode-ray tubes, with the backing of David Sarnoff, the tech-savvy marketer who started NBC. In 1928, Farnsworths television sets made it to the market first, at $75 apiece
Charles Wheatstone. Telegraph?
Elisha Gray. Telephone?
Elisha Gray. Telephone?
Digital TV
Xrays
Tesla, inadvertently captured an X-ray image (predating Wilhelm Rntgen's December 1895 announcement of the discovery of x-rays by a few weeks) when he photographed Mark Twain illuminated by a Geissler tube, an earlier type of gas discharge tube.
Tesla, inadvertently captured an X-ray image (predating Wilhelm Rntgen's December 1895 announcement of the discovery of x-rays by a few weeks) when he photographed Mark Twain illuminated by a Geissler tube, an earlier type of gas discharge tube.
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Worlds First IC
Over to you Ramjet,
Components could then be integrated and wired into a bidimensional or tridimensional compact grid. This idea, which looked very promising in 1957, was proposed to the US Army by Jack Kilby, and led to the short-lived Micromodule Program (similar to 1951's Project Tinkertoy).[9] However, as the project was gaining momentum, Kilby came up with a new, revolutionary design: the IC.
Jack Kilby's original integrated circuit
Newly employed by Texas Instruments, Kilby recorded his initial ideas concerning the integrated circuit in July 1958, successfully demonstrating the first working integrated example on 12 September 1958.[10] In his patent application of 6 February 1959,[11] Kilby described his new device as a body of semiconductor material wherein all the components of the electronic circuit are completely integrated.[12] The first customer for the new invention was the US Air Force.[13]
Kilby won the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics for his part of the invention of the integrated circuit.[14] Kilby's work was named an IEEE Milestone in 2009.[15]
Noyce also came up with his own idea of an integrated circuit half a year later than Kilby. His chip solved many practical problems that Kilby's had not. Produced at Fairchild Semiconductor, it was made of silicon, whereas Kilby's chip was made of germanium.
Robert Noyce credited Kurt Lehovec of Sprague Electric for the principle of pn junction isolation caused by the action of a biased pn junction (the diode) as a key concept behind the IC.[16]
Fairchild Semiconductor was also home of the first silicon-gate IC technology with self-aligned gates, which stands as the basis of all modern CMOS computer chips. The technology was developed by Italian physicist Federico Faggin in 1968, who later joined Intel in order to develop the very first Central Processing Unit (CPU) on one chip (Intel 4004), for which he received the National Medal of Technology and Innovation in 2010.
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Worlds First IC
Over to you Ramjet,
Components could then be integrated and wired into a bidimensional or tridimensional compact grid. This idea, which looked very promising in 1957, was proposed to the US Army by Jack Kilby, and led to the short-lived Micromodule Program (similar to 1951's Project Tinkertoy).[9] However, as the project was gaining momentum, Kilby came up with a new, revolutionary design: the IC.
Jack Kilby's original integrated circuit
Newly employed by Texas Instruments, Kilby recorded his initial ideas concerning the integrated circuit in July 1958, successfully demonstrating the first working integrated example on 12 September 1958.[10] In his patent application of 6 February 1959,[11] Kilby described his new device as a body of semiconductor material wherein all the components of the electronic circuit are completely integrated.[12] The first customer for the new invention was the US Air Force.[13]
Kilby won the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics for his part of the invention of the integrated circuit.[14] Kilby's work was named an IEEE Milestone in 2009.[15]
Noyce also came up with his own idea of an integrated circuit half a year later than Kilby. His chip solved many practical problems that Kilby's had not. Produced at Fairchild Semiconductor, it was made of silicon, whereas Kilby's chip was made of germanium.
Robert Noyce credited Kurt Lehovec of Sprague Electric for the principle of pn junction isolation caused by the action of a biased pn junction (the diode) as a key concept behind the IC.[16]
Fairchild Semiconductor was also home of the first silicon-gate IC technology with self-aligned gates, which stands as the basis of all modern CMOS computer chips. The technology was developed by Italian physicist Federico Faggin in 1968, who later joined Intel in order to develop the very first Central Processing Unit (CPU) on one chip (Intel 4004), for which he received the National Medal of Technology and Innovation in 2010.
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