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Early developments of the integrated circuit go back to 1949, when the German engineer Werner Jacobi (Siemens AG) filed a patent for an integrated-circuit-like semiconductor amplifying device [3] showing five transistors on a common substrate arranged in a 2-stage amplifier arrangement. Jacobi discloses small and cheap hearing aids as typical industrial applications of his patent. A commercial use of his patent has not been reported.
The idea of the integrated circuit was conceived by a radar scientist working for the Royal Radar Establishment of the British Ministry of Defence, Geoffrey W.A. Dummer (1909–2002), who published it at the Symposium on Progress in Quality Electronic Components in Washington, D.C. on May 7, 1952.[4] He gave many symposia publicly to propagate his ideas. Dummer unsuccessfully attempted to build such a circuit in 1956..
Newly employed by Texas Instruments, Kilby recorded his initial ideas concerning the integrated circuit in July 1958, successfully demonstrating the first working integrated example on September 12, 1958. In his patent application of February 6, 1959, Kilby described his new device as “a body of semiconductor material ... wherein all the components of the electronic circuit are completely integrated.” Kilby won the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics for his part of the invention of the integrated circuit.
Originally posted by Starrunner
Originally posted by TruthOut3579
I heard about how the transistor was reverse-engineered off Roswell. And our technology DID increase drastically between 1950 and 2010.
It wasn't transistors we reverse-engineered from the Roswell crash we had those in TVs and Radios already at that time. We supposed reverse-engineered integrated-circuits from the crash in addition to fiber-optics, laser and a few other technologies.
Originally posted by GringoViejo
reply to post by Drunkenparrot
Thanks for that
I would just like to add that I personally don't believe we have any alien technology. We may be dumb as a species, but there are some very intelligent people that this planet is graced with.
Originally posted by Starrunner
reply to post by Drunkenparrot
Why are you responding to me all I was doing was correcting the OP.
Originally posted by Starrunner
I retract my statement about transistors being used in TVs and radios of 1947, you're right it was vacuum tubes.
But it was integrated-circuits (the begins of modern computer-chip) that has always been claimed to have been reverse-engineered from the Roswell crash.
Originally posted by ldyserenity
I think the first thing we figured out was the silicon chip that allowed computers to be assembled, and I have always thought we did get the silicon chip from the roswell crash. I really do.