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First Integrated Circuit Demonstration

First Integrated Circuit Demonstration

Jack Kilby demonstrates the first working integrated circuit prototype to a skeptical but hopeful audience of Texas Instruments engineers and executives.

Year 1958
Date 9/12
Location Texas Instruments Laboratory, Texas, United States
Layer 2
Visibility HIDDEN
tax:foundational-computing-hardware tax:protest-riot-and-civil-unrest

Key Figures

Jack Kilby Senior Engineer Executive Lab Assistant
Time Travel

Causal neighbors · 539 linked moments

I
Invention of the Integrated Circuit
1958 · contemporaneous
I
Invention of the Integrated Circuit
1958 · contemporaneous
First Integrated Circuit Demonstration
First Integrated Circuit Demonstration
1958 · contemporaneous
Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence
Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence
1956 · same era
Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence
Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence
1956 · follows
Shannon Publishes "A Mathematical Theory of Communication"
Shannon Publishes "A Mathematical Theory of Communication"
1948 · same era
Shannon Publishes "A Mathematical Theory of Communication"
Shannon Publishes "A Mathematical Theory of Communication"
1948 · follows
I
Invention of the Integrated Circuit
1958 · contemporaneous
I
Invention of the Integrated Circuit
1958 · contemporaneous
First Integrated Circuit Demonstration
First Integrated Circuit Demonstration
1958 · contemporaneous
Apollo 1 Fire
Apollo 1 Fire
1967 · same era
A
Apollo 7 Launch
1968 · same era
F
First Silicon Transistor Demonstration
1954 · same era
C
Completion of TRADIC, the First Transistor Computer
1954 · same era
A
Apollo 1 Fire
1967 · same era
P
Proposal for the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence
1955 · same era
D
Demonstration of the perceptron by Frank Rosenblatt
1957 · same era
D
Dartmouth Conference on Artificial Intelligence
1956 · same era
P
Publication of Claude Shannon's 'A Mathematical Theory of Communication'
1948 · same era
D
Demonstration of the Logic Theorist Program
1956 · same era
F
Founding of Intel
1968 · same era
A
Apollo 1 Cabin Fire
1967 · same era
A
Apollo 1 Fire
1967 · same era
A
Apollo 6 Launch
1968 · same era
F
Friendship 7 Launch
1962 · same era
M
Mother of All Demos
1968 · same era
A
Apollo 1 Fire
1967 · same era
A
Apollo 1 Fire
1967 · same era
M
Mercury-Atlas 6 (Friendship 7)
1962 · same era
A
Apollo 5 (AS-204)
1968 · same era
A
Apollo 1 Fire
1967 · same era
D
Dartmouth Conference on Artificial Intelligence begins
1956 · same era
E
Explorer 1 launch
1958 · same era
T
Telstar 1 launch
1962 · same era
D
Delivery of the first UNIVAC I to the United States Census Bureau
1951 · same era
G
Gemini 4 (Ed White's Spacewalk)
1965 · same era