San Francisco / Houston / Sir William Crookes / Albuquerque / Brisbane / Kansas City / Berlin / Harrison / Santa Clara / Moscow / Bonn / San Jose / New York / Sir James Dewar / Alexandria / Long Island / /
Company
Fairchild Semiconductor 1957 RCA / Hewlett-Packard / Cathode Ray Tube Radio / Satellite High / No. 1 France Amperex Russia Reflector Corp / Poulsen Wireless/ Federal Telegraph Co. / Philco Taiwan TV / BBC / Geiger Counter Radio / AT&T Marconi Co. / Texas Instruments / VHF Electronic Television / Research Corp. / CA Richardson Electronics / MD Westrex Corporation / Leybold Company / Intel Corp. / Lee deForest Radio / Marconi Co. / Pfeiffer Co. / Fairchild Semiconductor / RCA Radiotron Co / Muzak Bulldozer 1923 Portable Radio / Compaq / Radio Corporation of America / First Lee deForest Moorhead Laboratories / Microsoft / General Electric / Sperry Corp. / North American Phillips / MKS Instruments Inc. / New York Edison Illuminating Company / L. Malter Metal / McCandless Lamp Co / Western European / Atari / H.M. Fessenden / Siemens / IBM / ENIAC Computer 1946 Transistor 1947 Cable Television / Shortwave Radio / Quadrupole Mass Filter Allied Radio / Binary Circuit First Working Radio / Albert Hess Malignani Corp / Germany 1914 Edison & Swan Co. / Magnavox Co. / Hertz / Allied Radio / Sylvania / Osaka Vacuum Ltd. / IBM Personal Computer / Raytheon Co. / Intel July / MO Yugoslavia El Electronic Industries / /
Continent
North America / /
Country
United Kingdom / Italy / France / Germany / United States / /
Stanford University / American Institute of Electrical Engineers / Philco Taiwan TV plant / Channel tunnel / Birmingham University / Lewis D. Hall / Nuclear Reactor Calculating Device Television Advertising / Saratov Ryazan Plant of Electronics / plant Sylvania / /
IndustryTerm
energy electron diffraction / chemical getters / step-seal radio relay systems / electricity / electronics / digital memory storage device / gas molecules / oil diffusion pump / oil drop experiment / brother-in-law / proto internet / telephone call / wireless signal / metal / lab Web TV / manufacturing / metal family / wireless telegraphy / telephone relay tube / residual gas analyzer / tube manufacturer / chemical gettering / gas/surface interactions / distance telephone / equilibrium travel / neon advertising / thin metal / /
MusicGroup
Amplifier / B.C. / /
NaturalFeature
West Coast / /
OperatingSystem
Unix / Commodore 64 / Microsoft Windows / Linux / Macintosh / MS-DOS / Windows 95 / Windows 3.0 / OS/2 / /
Organization
American Institute of Electrical Engineers / Commercial Fax Service / W. Becker Varian Assoc. / SEMI / United States Navy / Physical Society of London / AVS Education/History committee / Vacuum Techniques M-type Carcinotrons Varian Assoc. / Scientific Foundation of Vacuum Techniques / U.S. Air Force / Univ. of Penn. / Federal Communications Commission / Oxford University / Signal Corps / National Union / Stanford University / Birmingham University / National Aeronautics and Space Administration / Royal Society / /
Person
John L. Baird / Irving Langmuir / William R. Wheeler / Wayne B. Nottingham / Rene Descartes / Walter H. Brattain / Blaise Pascal / Joseph J. Thompson / Vladimir K. Zworykin / Paul C. Arnold / Eduard Anton von Lenard / Arthur R. B. Wehnelt Crystal Set High / Steve Jobs / Jacques-Alexandre Charles / Rudi Kompfner Vladimir / Daniel Alpert Inverted / Peter Debye / Leslie Holland / Alan B. Du Mont Rudi Kompfner / Carl F. Braun / Charles W. Hanks / Peter Clarke / Otto Von Baeyer Triode / Max Knoll / Oskar Heil Percy Spencer / John William Strutt / John Ambrose Fleming / Nicolaas Bloembergen / Alfred O.C. Nier / William W. Hansen / Robert Finnigan / Hermann Sprengel / Thomas Varian / William Shockley / Thomas A. Edison / Alan B. Du Mont / Kelvin / Jack S. Kilby / L. Baird Discovery / Heinrich Rohrer / Daniel Alpert Saul Dushman / Irving Langmuir Thoriated / Jacques Curie / John Bardeen / Saul Dushman / Erwin W. Mòller / Robert Noyce / Henry Power / John B. Johnson / P. Della Porta Compactron / Daniel G. Bills / Francis Roots / Kenjiro Takayanagi / Herbert Kroemer / John Chapin / George J. Stoney / Owen W. Richardson / Harris J. Ryan / Bill Gates / Paul A. Redhead / Edwin H. Armstrong / Crystal Set High-voltage / Charles Oatley / Adam Osborne / Paul Eisler / Kenneth C.D. Hickman Low-pressure / Richard Townley / J. Ryan James Dewar / Edwin Howard Armstrong / Wolfgang Panofsky / Bayard-Alpert / Raleigh / Ernst Ruska / Wolfgang Gaede / Ernst August Friedrich / Paul Allen / Harry Boot / David Sarnoff / John Randall / Carl von Linn / Hans Georg Dehmelt / Paul Trap / Ross Aiken / Kenneth C.D. Hickman / Wolfgang Paul / Henry Tizard James Franck / Edward Ginzton / Arthur L. Schawlow / Rudolf Clausius / Harold Urey / Jack St. Clair Kilby / Lee deForest / M. Van Atta / Jean B. Perrin / Irving Langmuir Vibrating / Norman Milleron / R. Herb Robert / James Chadwick / Robert T. Bayard / Robert A. Millikan Irving Langmuir / P. Michael Uthe / Joseph John Thomson / Ted Hoff / Cecil R. Burch / Gordon Moore / Joseph J. Thomson George / Ernest O. Lawrence / Taft / Georges Claude / Harold S. Black / / /
Position
fine-wire collector / San Francisco President / Brigadier General / Pioneer vacuum scientist / ft space chamber Spinning-rotor Commercial scanning Extractor / Commodore / Brigadier / founder / /
Product
Sony Portable Radio / Hetrodyne / ORBYX Tube Radio / Instant Color Film Fuel Injection / Twin / Windows 3.0 1990 1.2 million-transistor Intel 80486™ processor / Pentium / Windows 3.0 1990 1.2 / /
ProgrammingLanguage
Fortran / /
ProvinceOrState
California / Pennsylvania / Tuscany / /
RadioStation
Radio Shack TRS / 1921 KDKA / Radio Shack / Portable Radio 1924 / Electric Guitar FM / /
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