![]() ![]() This combined transistors and other components in a single block of material: no wires, no weak connections that could fail. Like most technologies the integrated circuit has many parents, but key patents were filed in 19 by Sidney Darlington, Bernard Oliver and Harwick Johnson, while in 1958 Texas Instruments’ Jack Kilby invented the first prototype of an integrated circuit. Tubes used enormous amounts of power, and needed replaced almost daily. ![]() This meant adding any more components made the device less reliable and harder to run and repair. Without it we wouldn’t have PCs or games consoles, smartphones or Sony Walkmans, in-car entertainment or internet, space shuttles or smart TVs… if you’re a time traveller who wants to prevent the modern world from becoming modern, this is the one to go for.īefore the integrated circuit was invented technology had hit a wall: devices were so complex and used so many components and vacuum tubes that ‘the tyranny of numbers’ kicked in. The integrated circuit changed everything. Credit: Zephyris / Wikipedia / CC BY-SA 3.0 ![]() Arguably the most important creation in modern electronics' history. ![]()
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