Jack Kilby, Manuscript
name: label: Creator
content: Johnson Controls. (5757 North Green Bay Avenue, Glendale, Illinois 53209)
label: Creator
content: Kilby, Jack
topic: label: Topic
content: Integrated circuits
label: Topic
content: Transistors
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Collection donated by Jack Kilby and Johnson Controls.
creator: label: Creator
content: Johnson Controls. (5757 North Green Bay Avenue, Glendale, Illinois 53209)
label: Creator
content: Kilby, Jack
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Kilby, who later won the Nobel Prize, is credited as an inventor of the world's first integrated circuit (computer chip).
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.05 Cubic feet (1 folder)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1951
container: label: Container
content: Box 1 (Shared box)
custodhist: label: Ownership and Custodial History
content: Donated by Jack Kilby and Johnson Controls.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0798
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Manuscripts
label: Type
content: Typescripts
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: 1 series.
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Collection processed by NMAH Staff, undated.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Manuscripts -- 1950-1960
label: Genre/Form
content: Typescripts
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: A typescript of Kilby's 1951 paper entitled "Transistors -- Their Manufacture and Use." 14 pp. + title and bibliography pages. In a folder with an attached offprint of an article from Scientific American: Louis N. Ridenour, "A Revolution in Electronics," Aug. 1951, Vol. 185, No. 2, pp. 13-17.