19.611 Drummer query

              Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 19, No. 611.
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        Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 19:01:27 -0400
        From: Edward Vanhoutte <edward.vanhoutte_at_kantl.be>
        Subject: Drummer

Is there anyone out there who can point me at the original text from 1952 in
which GWA Drummer (b. 1909), a British engineer at the UK Royal Radar
Establishment, came up with the original idea of a monolithic integrated
circuit when he wrote: =8CWith the advent of the transistor and the work in
semiconductors generally, it seems now possible to envisage electronic
equipment in a solid block with no connecting wires.=B9 That block could be
made, according to Drummer, of =8Cof layers of insulating, conducting,
rectifying and amplifying materials=B9. (cited in Kungl.
Vetenskapsakademien, Advanced information on the Nobel Prize in Physics
2000, p.6
<http://www.kva.se/KVA_Root/files/newspics/DOC_2003213142945_104967873852
_phyadv00.pdf>) As we all know, Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce later fought
over the ownership of the original idea of the silicon chip.

Best,

Edward

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Edward Vanhoutte
Independent Researcher
Associate Editor, Literary and Linguistic Computing
University of Antwerp - CDE
Dept. of Literature
Universiteitsplein 1
b-2610 Wilrijk
Belgium

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