To the Digital Age
Subtitle: Research Labs, Start-up Companies, and the Rise of MOS Technology (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology)
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: March 29, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 440
ISBN-13: 9780801868092
Subjects: History of engineering & technology; Impact of science & technology on society; Industry & Industrial Studies; Semi-conductors & super-conductors; Technology & Industrial Arts; Metal Oxide Semiconductors (Mos); Technology And Society; Technology; Science/Mathematics; Social aspects; Metal oxide semiconductors; Corporate & Business History - General; Electronics - Semiconductors; History / United States / General; General; Information Technology; Electronics; History
First sentence: The MOS (metal-oxide-semiconductor) transistor, the fundamental element is digital electronics, is the base technology of late-twentieth-century and early-twenty-first-century America.