To the Digital Age
Subtitle: Research Labs, Start-up Companies, and the Rise of MOS Technology (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: February 22, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 440
ISBN-13: 9780801886393
Subjects: History of engineering & technology; Science; Technology & Industrial Arts; Science/Mathematics; USA; Corporate & Business History - General; Electronics - Semiconductors; History; Business & Economics-Corporate & Business History - General; History / United States / General; Technology / History; Technology-Electronics - Semiconductors; United States - General
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.