Word: printings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Fairchild, Noyce used a new chemical etching method not only to print transistors on silicon wafers but also to lay down tracks between them. Besides eliminating expensive wiring, the new integrated circuits operated much faster. Six months earlier Texas Instruments' Jack Kilby had produced a similar chip, but it was made of germanium, required external wires and was tougher to manufacture. Noyce's chip won the ensuing patent race, but the two friendly rivals were content to regard themselves as co-inventors...
Edwin Land had long since dropped out of Harvard, founded a successful corporation and come up with scores of inventions when he took on the challenge of instant photography just after World War II. Until then, photographers had to develop their film and then print it on paper--or send it off to a professional lab--before they actually had a picture in hand. Land was convinced he could shortcut this laborious process by creating a camera that did all the work itself, and by 1947 he had done it. Instead of conventional film, the Polaroid Land Camera was loaded...
Editors' Note: This article ran in The Crimson a number of years ago in response to several suicide attempts. In light of the recent tragedy on campus, we felt it might be helpful to print it again...
...pretty soon Blum's network suffered a major communication breakdown. The computers would crash every time Blum or his employee tried to print a document, and customer service's advice--to uninstall and then reinstall the networking software on both machines--didn't do the trick. Frustrated and falling behind on his professional work, Blum finally disassembled everything and put things back the way they were before he tried networking. "I had been jerking around with it all day," he says, "and I needed to get back to work...
Into voyeurism? This week, The Brattle reissues "Peeping Tom" in 35mm print. The Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle St. 876-6837. Friday and Saturday...