The Microchip's First Photograph
“Texas Instruments laboratory, Dallas, September 1958. Jack Kilby places a small slab of germanium with hair-thin wires under a microscope. Foreground shows the prototype integrated circuit beside a No. 2 pencil for scale; midground reveals Kilby in shirtsleeves examining it and a notebook open; through a window, a Dallas autumn afternoon glints off chrome-trimmed Fords parked outside.”
