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PBS

Pbs: Transistorized!

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides a tour of the discovery and development of the transistor form PBS, including video and lesson plans.
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The Franklin Institute

Franklin Institute: The Case Files: Early History of Computing

For Students 9th - 10th
Computers are ubiquitous today. Step back in time and meet some of the early inventors of precursors to computers, and of the first computers.
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National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Walter Brattain (1902 1987)

For Students 9th - 10th
Walter Houser Brattain discovered the photo-effect that occurs at the free surface of a semiconductor and was co-creator of the point-contact transistor, which paved the way for the more advanced types of transistors that eventually...