[NJARC] Happy Birthday!

[James troe]

Not quite true!
They did not BUILD the first transistor. They "invented" it and did the 
theoretical work, and defined how it should be constructed. But the guy 
who actually constructed it was a skilled technician who later worked in 
my Department. Problem is I had so many people work for me over the 
years and my memory is getting older every day, right now I can not 
remember his name. He never got any publicity for being part of the 
team, and never showed up in the early photographs of the inventors, but 
he was invited back every year for awhile to their anniversary 
celebration.
This was often true with the skilled technicians who supported the 
famous.
Jim Troe

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Subject: Re: [NJARC] Happy Birthday!


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