To the Digital Age: Research Labs, Start-Up Companies, and the Rise of Mos Technology

by Ross Knox Bassett

Book Overview

Without the transistor to regulate the flow of current in electronic systems, there would be no miniaturization of electronics. But the metal-oxide-semiconductor (or simply MOS) transistor-it replaced the bipolar transistor, which itself had made obsolete the hot and bulky vacuum tube--Bassett describes as "the base technology" of the electronic revolution of the late-twentieth century. From the calculator to the digital watch to the microprocessor,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801886392
• ISBN13: 9780801886393
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher