Question

1. How did the Integrated Circuit impact the development of technology during the 1950’s and 60’s?

Answer 1

• Isaac Asimov- the inventor of the integrated circuit.
• The integrated circuit initially used in the cold war of the U.S. military in the year 1950s.
• American semiconductor researchers deviced and enhance the performance of components like diodes and transistors.
• Silicon components became more cheap, reliable and smaller.
• During the late 1950s the RCA Labs, the Bell Labs, the Diamond Ordnance Fuse Laboratory, Texas Instruments, and Sprague Electric began to create an entire circuit in a single piece of semiconductor material.
• 1965 – Integrated Electronics established in Military

Year	Invention	Scientist
1947	First transistor	John Bardeen, Walter Brattain
1956	Semiconductor
1925	Field-Effect transistor	Julius Edgar
1934	Metal Oxide Semiconductor FET	Oscar Heil
1968-1969	Medium Scale Integration
1970	Large Scale Integration

References

1. https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/19/opinion/19iht-eddas.1.16308269.html
2. https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillations/the-integrated-circuit-at-fifty
3. https://books.google.co.in/books?id=lIhICRQEk2IC&pg=PA2&lpg=PA2&dq=Impact+of+Integrated+Circuit+in1950%E2%80%99s+and+60%E2%80%99s&source=bl&ots=sfBUBwVQSB&sig=ACfU3U22IYbWBxwt8sACxJx_01Dc55UooQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjwy_CnyejkAhUE7XMBHYJKAGYQ6AEwFXoECAcQAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false