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The history of the transistor begins with the dramatic scientific discoveries of the 1800's--scientists like Maxwell, Hertz, Faraday, and Edison made it possible to harness electricity for human uses. Inventors like Braun, Marconi, Fleming, and DeForest applied this knowledge in the development of useful electrical devices like radio.
Their work set the stage for the Bell Labs scientists whose challenge was to use this knowledge to make practical and useful electronic devices for communications. Teams of Bell Labs scientists, such as Shockley, Brattain, Bardeen, and many others met the challenge--and invented the information age. They stood on the shoulders of the great inventors of the 19th century to produce the greatest invention of the our time: the transistor.

We invite you to enjoy a visit to one of America's renowned outdoor museums and the site of the birthplace of the DuPont Company. The specialized research library is known to scholars around the world for its collections of original manuscripts, rare books and pamphlets, and pictorial items documenting the history of American business and technology and their impact on society.

The origins of modern psychosurgery are to be found in the last decades of the 19th century, when science was beginning to understand how the human mind and behavior could be mapped out into the anatomical features of the brain. A German scientist named Friederich Golz, doing experiments with the surgical ablation of neocortex in dogs, reported in 1890 that when the temporal lobe were removed, animals were more tame and calmer than the

Monica, Richard Belanger invented the sippy cup, which he later licensed to Platex. Playtex manufacturers and sells its cups under the tradename of "Sipster". The sippy cup is a spillproof drinking cup designed for tots. Richard Belanger now serves as a design engineer at Adhesive Machinery, a company he helped form, and has been issued several patents related to glue guns.

G.Binswanger and Company, an electrical goods wholesaler established in London during the 1880s by a German immigrant named Gustav Binswanger (later Byng), was the building block for GEC.
In 1886 Byng was joined by another German immigrant, Hugo Hirst, (later Lord Hirst) the 'Father of GEC' and the company changed its name to The General Electric Apparatus Company (G.Binswanger). This date is regarded as the real start of GEC.
The following year, the company produced the first electrical catalogue of its kind. In 1888 the firm acquired its first factory in Manchester for the manufacture of telephones, electric bells, ceiling roses and switches.

NASA, now 41 years old, has come a long way from the exuberant group of engineers that set out to meet President Kennedy's 1961 challenge to put a man on the moon by the decade's end.

Explore large structures and what it takes to build them with BUILDING BIG™, a five-part PBS television series and Web site from WGBH Boston. Here are the main features of the site:
Bridges, Domes, Skyscrapers, Dams, and Tunnels.

One of the threads of common heritage that ties together the people of Boeing is also one of the watershed events of the 20th century: landing a human on the moon. More than 30 years before the people of Boeing, Boeing North American (the former Rockwell aerospace units) and McDonnell Douglas came together as The Boeing Company, they worked together to make possible Neil Armstrong's first step on the moon on July 20, 1969.

May 25, 2001 is the 40th anniversary of President Kennedy's speech, calling on America to land a man on the moon. To commemorate this historic event, WAMU, in conjunction with the documentary series SOUNDPRINT, produced a two-hour program titled Washington Goes To the Moon.

In 1903, two events launched the history of modern aviation. The Wright brothers made their first flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, and William Boeing, born Oct. 1, 1881, in Detroit, Michigan, left Yale engineering college for the West Coast.

After making his fortune trading forest lands around Grays Harbor, Washington, Boeing moved to Seattle in 1908 and, two years later, went to Los Angeles for the first American air meet. Boeing tried to get a ride in one of the airplanes, but not one of the dozen aviators participating in the event would oblige. Boeing came back to Seattle disappointed, but determined to learn more about this new science of aviation.