Word: transistor
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Dates: during 2010-2019
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...Think of the [significance] of the single transistor 30 or 40 years ago,” Weitz said. “Now they make millions of transistors all together. And [microfluidics] is similarly going to let us do many, many things in parallel. Experiments can literally go a million times faster...
...money supply, combined with pent-up demand, led to another economic phenomenon: hyperinflation. Cigarettes sold for as much as one million pesos a pack. A roll of toilet paper cost 100,000 pesos, or $34. Suárez recalled a bidding war that broke out over a transistor radio that finally sold for the equivalent of $12,000. Some of the troops, intent on spending every waking hour looking for money, bought their way out of KP by paying colleagues up to 10 million pesos - or about $3,500 - to replace them...