Re: OT: Rant on Dictatorship

On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 09:14:38 -0700, Do I really need to say?
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On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 07:27:34 -0700, John Larkin
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On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 01:18:27 +0000, Eeyore
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John Larkin wrote:

YD <ydtechHAT@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Most, if not all, of the world outside the US uses aluminium. But you
lot still measure in inches and pounds so I guess we'll just let it
lie as another charming little quirk of yours.

Silly quirk, like refrigeration and airplanes and transistors and ICs
and information theory and lasers and a lot of other useless stuff.

You're claiming refrigeration as a US invention ?

" The first known method of artificial refrigeration was demonstrated by William Cullen at the
University of Glasgow in Scotland in 1748. "

And the transistor is hardly an American invention either.

" The first patent[2] for the field-effect transistor principle was filed in Canada by
Austrian-Hungarian physicist Julius Edgar Lilienfeld on October 22, 1925

In 1934 German physicist Dr. Oskar Heil patented another field-effect transistor.

Legal papers from the Bell Labs patent show that Shockley and Pearson had built operational
versions from Lilienfeld's patents, yet they never referenced this work in any of their later
research papers or historical articles. "


The junction transistor was certainly invented at Bell Labs. And it
was not derived from previous field-effect transistors, which were
known to be flakey. The Bell Labs point-contact transistor was a
practical, manufacturable device, and Shockley soon evolved it into
the alloy junction transistor, which changed the world.

The transistor was actually evolved from the radar detector diodes
developed in WWII. The Brits championed the use of diodes as mixers,
and then the MIT RadLab did extensive theoretical and practical work.
All the hole/electron/lattice energy/work function stuff was
understood at MIT, and one of the RadLab books casually notes that "a
crystal triode should be possible."

I had lunch with Walter Brattain in 1963, at Bell Labs in Murry Hill.
Very nice guy. I also got to see one of the first led's in the world,
and got a great lecture on information theory by some very smart guy
whose name I don't remember. It was policy at Bell to locate smart
kids all over the USA and fly them to New Jersey to visit with their
researchers. I had never seen snow or rocks or real scientists before,
and they threw in a weekend in New York City, at the Algonquin Hotel.

The anechoic chamber, walking on a giant steel-wire trampoline, was
fun too. The RadLab and Bell Labs seriously changed the world.

Jfets came later; TI did some interesting germanium jfets. I don't
know their history. RCA made mosfets practical by solving some nasty
materials problems.


IBM has made some serious steps in chip epitaxy and fab processes as
well.


And Fairchild's planar process made cheap, fast silicon transistors
and ICs practical.

John

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