Electric Universe

From: Wayne Watson <sierra_mtnview@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 05:00:03 GMT

I'm breezing through David Bodanis's easy to read "Electric Universe", but
came to something of a halt on pages 181-183 about the development of the
transistor. Shockley was the inventor, right? Hardly, but he sure knew how
to get the credit; however, in the most round-about way imaginable, he was
probably singlehanded responsible for the rise of Silicon Valley. Quite a
story on those several pages. (What a jerk!)

         Wayne T. Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA)
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