Inventors of the Computer Chip

Front:
So poorly remembered by history, we can't use them as the title of this shirt ~ so few people would recognize them. But in Japan, where J.R. Reid, of the Washington Post (author of their biography) resides, they are well known, just like Deming, the quality control expert.

This fascinating shirt explains their lives: "Robert Noyce and Jack Kilby discovered the microchip independently, history records them as co-inventors" Noyce, was a star diver, oboe player, singer, and a Phi Beta Kappa Ph.D. at MIT. Worked for Shockley, then founded Fairchild Semiconductor. Started Intel in 1968. Kilby is thoughtful, friendly, plain spoken, and an incisive thinker. A student at Illinois in 1941, he became a corporal in WWII. In 1958, he joined world leader Texas Instruments."

Back:
The back of the shirt is so full of stuff that is can't be described here adequately. The progression of calculating from the abacus to vacuum tubes, transistors, and microchips is montaged. An interesting chronology of computers starts with: "1830's Charles Babbage (British) designs the first digital computer.", and builds (historically) all the way through the early 1960's inventions. Names included are: Boole, Edison, Fleming, DeForest, Zworkin, Vannevar Bush, Claude Shannon, von Neumann, Aiken (Harvard), Shockley-Bratten-Bardeen, Univac, TI, Kilby, Noyce ... through J.F. Kennedy's assertion that a trip to the moon will only be possible via large scale use of the microchip. The montage also includes computer statistics, the late 1950's "Tyranny of Numbers", and a cute (and true) anecdote of the origination of the word "de-bugging" ~ moths had to be scraped from vacuum tubes, which always attracted them.

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