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Science Parks- Silicon Valley
Silicon valley was a pioneer in the development of science parks. It´s science parks dates back to the 1950´s.
It´s an area usually linked with an universtity where specific research and commercial development are carried on in cooperation.
Silicon valley it´s located in California, precisely at Santa Clara Valley, San Francisco Bay Area. -
First Transistor Radio
A transistor is a semiconductor device used to amplify and switch electronic signals and electrical power. It is composed of semiconductor material with at least three terminals for connection to an external circuit.
Following its development in 1947 by American physicists John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Shockley, the transistor revolutionized the field of electronics, and paved the way for smaller and cheaper radios, calculators, and computers, among other things. -
New Applications of the Transistors
First all-transistor car radio.
The world’s first transistor computer.
The surface-barrier transistor. -
8 Entrepreneurs first meeting
Robert Noyce, Julius Blank, Victor Grinich, Jean Hoerni, Eugene Kleiner, Jay Last, Gordon E. Moore, Sheldon Roberts -
Footloose Industry
Footloose industry is a general term for an industry that can be placed and located at any location without effect from factors such as resources or transport.
These industries often have spatially fixed costs, which means that the costs of the products do not change despite where the product is assembled. Diamonds and computer chips are some examples of footloose industries. -
Silicon Revolution
The term gained widespread use in the early 1980s, at the time of the introduction of the IBM PC and numerous related hardware and software products to the consumer market. The Silicon part of the name refers to the high concentration of companies involved in the making of semiconductors (silicon is used to create most semiconductors commercially) and computer industries that were concentrated in the area. -
Worlds cheapest computer
computers soon revolutionized many aspects of home and family life as they had business practices in the previous decades.
Mothers would keep their recipe catalog in "kitchen computer" databases and turn to a medical database for help with child care, fathers would use the family's computer to manage family finances and track automobile maintenance. Children would use online encyclopedias for school work and would be avid video gamers.
