Jack Kilby Of Texas Instruments

[Airshack]

The Chip That Jack Built 

 

A short film from KERA profiling Nobel Prize Winner Jack Kilby, the Texas Instruments engineer who co-invented the integrated circuit (more commonly known as a microchip):

 

https://www.kera.org/tv/productions/the-chip-that-jack-built-2009/

 

Anyone here ever crossed paths with Jack Kilby?

 

 

[+Lee Stewart]

3 hours ago, Airshack said:

The Chip That Jack Built 

 

A short film from KERA profiling Nobel Prize Winner Jack Kilby, the Texas Instruments engineer who co-invented the integrated circuit (more commonly known as a microchip):

 

https://www.kera.org/tv/productions/the-chip-that-jack-built-2009/

 

Anyone here ever crossed paths with Jack Kilby?

 

No—but FYI, the “Additional resources” links on kera.org are all broken. Those I could find are now

• The History of the Integrated Circuit (nobelprize.org)
  • Popular information
  • Advanced physics prize 2000 PDF
• Jack Kilby mini-autobiography (nobelprize.org)
• Jack Kilby information page (Texas Instruments – ti.com)—could not find anywhere on site

...lee

[+OLD CS1]

12 hours ago, Lee Stewart said:

Jack Kilby information page (Texas Instruments – ti.com)—could not find anywhere on site

Fortunately, the Wayback Machine has our backs:

 

https://web.archive.org/web/20180124043432/http://www.ti.com/corp/docs/kilbyctr/jackstclair.shtml

[J-Data]

Couldn’t pass up a Jack Kilbey reference.  He had good taste in O-scopes.  I’m sure it’s just a prop though.
 

[Airshack]

23 hours ago, J-Data said:

Couldn’t pass up a Jack Kilbey reference.

Where’s this display?

[J-Data]

20 minutes ago, Airshack said:

Where’s this display?

It is (or was) in the TI North Dallas/Richardson campus.

[Ed in SoDak]

 

In 1958, EICO offered the model 425. I spotted the EICO 460 o'scope, same model as your second photo, in the 1962 Burnstein-Applebee catalog. Might or might not be what Jack actually used, but at least it's close to period-correct.