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Jnc: Invention of the triode by Lee de Forest

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Invention of the triode by Lee de Forest

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‎Further reading: +Electronics in the West: The First Fifty Years

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Correct Ampex history

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‎Further reading: comment on 'How Silicon Valley Came to Be'

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‎Further reading: +How Silicon Valley Came to Be

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Better cat

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‎See also: +Route 128

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‎External links: +How Did Silicon Valley Become Silicon Valley?

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+Who named Silicon Valley?

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‎Further reading: +link to online 'Making Silicon Valley'

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 * [[Ampex]], founded in 1944, went on to build [[magnetic tape drive]]s;
 * [[Fairchild Semiconductor]], an un-planned 1957 spinoff of [[Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory]] (set up in 1956); it went on to have [[Intel]] as an un-planned descendant in 1968.
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 ==Further reading==
 * Christophe Lécuyer, [https://books.google.com/books?id=5TgKinNy5p8C ''Making Silicon Valley: Innovation and the Growth of High Tech, 1930-1970''], MIT Press, Cambridge, 2006
 * AnnaLee Saxenian, [https://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~anno/Papers/terman.html ''Creating a Twentieth Century Technical Community: Frederick Terman‘s Silicon Valley''], The Inventor and the Innovative Society, The Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, 1995

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 * [[Hewlett-Packard]], founded in 1939 to produce test instruments;
-* [[Varian Associates]], rooted in a research partnership established in 1937 between the Varian brothers and Stanford, was founded in 1948 to produce [[klystron]] [[vacuum tube|tubes]], the first tube which could amplify microwaves;
+* [[Varian Associates]], rooted in a research partnership established in 1937 between the Varian brothers and Stanford, was founded in 1948 to produce [[klystron]] [[vacuum tube|tubes]], the first tube which could amplify [[microwave]]s;
-* [[Ampex]], founded in 1958 to build [[magnetic tape drive]]s;
+* [[Ampex]], founded in 1944, went on to build [[magnetic tape drive]]s;
 * [[Fairchild Semiconductor]], an un-planned 1957 spinoff of [[Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory]] (set up in 1956); it went on to have [[Intel]] as an un-planned descendant in 1968.

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 * Christophe Lécuyer, [https://books.google.com/books?id=5TgKinNy5p8C ''Making Silicon Valley: Innovation and the Growth of High Tech, 1930-1970''], MIT Press, Cambridge, 2006
 * AnnaLee Saxenian, [https://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~anno/Papers/terman.html ''Creating a Twentieth Century Technical Community: Frederick Terman‘s Silicon Valley''], The Inventor and the Innovative Society, The Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, 1995
-* Timothy J. Sturgeon, [http://ipc-lis.mit.edu/globalization/Silicon%20Valley.pdf ''How Silicon Valley Came to Be''], Chapter 1 in ''Understanding Silicon Valley: Anatomy of an Entrepreneurial Region'', Stanford University, 2000 (archived [https://web.archive.org/web/20110818154349/http://ipc-lis.mit.edu/globalization/Silicon%20Valley.pdf here])
+* Timothy J. Sturgeon, [http://ipc-lis.mit.edu/globalization/Silicon%20Valley.pdf ''How Silicon Valley Came to Be''], Chapter 1 in ''Understanding Silicon Valley: Anatomy of an Entrepreneurial Region'', Stanford University, 2000 (archived [https://web.archive.org/web/20110818154349/http://ipc-lis.mit.edu/globalization/Silicon%20Valley.pdf here]) - explores the deep roots of the electronics industry in the Valley, long before WWII
 ==External links==

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 * Christophe Lécuyer, [https://books.google.com/books?id=5TgKinNy5p8C ''Making Silicon Valley: Innovation and the Growth of High Tech, 1930-1970''], MIT Press, Cambridge, 2006
 * AnnaLee Saxenian, [https://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~anno/Papers/terman.html ''Creating a Twentieth Century Technical Community: Frederick Terman‘s Silicon Valley''], The Inventor and the Innovative Society, The Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, 1995
 ==External links==

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	* Gregory Gromov, [https://silicon-valley-history.com/ ''From the Gold Mines of El Dorado to the “Golden” Startups of Silicon Valley''] - a detailed analysis of one particularly key factor		* Gregory Gromov, [https://silicon-valley-history.com/ ''From the Gold Mines of El Dorado to the “Golden” Startups of Silicon Valley''] - a detailed analysis of one particularly key factor

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 * [https://steveblank.com/secret-history/ Secret History] - excellent index to the above, along with a lengthy bibliography
 * [https://computerhistory.org/blog/who-named-silicon-valley/?key=who-named-silicon-valley Who named Silicon Valley?] - covers much else besides the name
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