Crystal Fire: The Invention of the Transistor and the Birth of the Information Age (Revised) Susanne Lang From the #1 New York

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Orphan Train comes a novel of love

ISBN10: 1894154363

in which scores are settled and ultimatums are issued and your gun is always loaded

A baby has been

Living on the edge as fugitives

Crystal Fire: The Invention of the Transistor and the Birth of the Information Age (Revised) Susanne Lang From the #1 New YorkOn December 16, 1947, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain, physicists at Bell Laboratories, jabbed two electrodes into a sliver of germanium. The power flowing from the germanium far exceeded what went in; in that moment the transistor was invented and the Information Age was born. No other devices have been as crucial to modern life as the transistor and the microchip it spawned, but the story of the science and personalities that made these inventions