Mighty Chips
February 6, 2023
Today in 1959, Jack Kilby filed a patent application for the Integrated Circuit, titled “Method of making miniaturized electronic circuit.”
“The University of Illinois gave him only average grades in electrical engineering, a disappointment to his father, who ran an electrical company, and he failed to get into MIT”—Harold Evans, They Made America, 2004.
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