IBM / Gartner / Bell Labs / Penguin Group (USA) Inc. / Naval Research Laboratory / MIT’s Laboratory / Molecular Technologies 1940 1950 1954 Time Electronics / GE / RCA / Molecular Electronics / Fairchild Semiconductor / Texas Instruments / Army Signal Corps Engineering Laboratories / /
Country
Germany / United States / Soviet Union / Singapore / /
Currency
USD / /
Event
Reorganization / Funding / /
Facility
Air Force Cambridge Research Center / Naval Research Laboratory / MIT’s Laboratory of Insulation Research / National Museum of American History / /
IndustryTerm
temperature semi-conductor devices / institutional networks / online version / communication systems / weapons systems / food / large systems / physical electronics / clever solution / electronics program / field electronics / electronics industry / electronic equipment / electronics / mainstream technology / electronics manufacturers / airborne electronic equipment / chemical / atomic electronics / artificial satellite / high technology field / quantum computing / speed computer devices / /
Organization
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences / National Research Council / US Air Force / RICE UNIV / Signal Corps / MIT / US Army Signal Corps / Air Force Cambridge Research Center / Westinghouse-Air Force / Army / Air Research and Development Command / National Security Industrial Association / Air Force / US military / /
Person
Arthur R. von Hippel / Harry Collins / Cyrus C.M. Mody / C.H. Lewis / Karl T. Compton / Arthur von Hippel / Forrest L. Carter / Earle F. Cook / Jack A. Morton / Gordon E. Moore / Ray Kurzweil / Harold A. Zahl / Edward Constant / S.W. Herwald / /
Position
Major General / contractor at this point / President and physicist / émigré physicist / Vice President / Manager of Westinghouse / Colonel / research manager / Director / historian of technology / Chief Signal Officer / research director / Director of Electronics / Manager of Westinghouse’s Air Arm Division / /
Social Studies of Science http://sss.sagepub.com The Long History of Molecular Electronics: Microelectronics Origins of Nanotechnology Hyungsub Choi and Cyrus C.M. Mody