Jack Kilby built a radio set | | the word "micro" means very small. |
His ambition was to | | and became a ham operator. |
During World War 2 | | he worked alone in the lab at TI. |
He did not want to leave Milwaukee because | | Texas Instruments in Dallas, Texas. |
In 1958 he went to work for | | Robert Noyce had come up with the same idea. |
During a two-week period in 1958 | | Jack worked with radio transmitters in India and Burma. |
In that summer of 1958 Kilby made | | awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics. |
In California | | his family was settled there. |
In the word "microchip" | | the hand-held calculator. |
In the 1940s the first computer | | weighed over thirty tons. |
While working at TI Kilby invented | | become an electrical engineer. |
In the year 2000 he was | | a prototype for an integrated circuit. |