The Chip that Jack Built is 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).
This year, the National Inventors Hall of Fame marks the 50th anniversary since the key patents for the integrated circuit were filed. On February 6, 1959, Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments filed for his milestone patent. His innovation spawned a technological revolution that has made our modern way of life possible, and is found in almost every electronic device we use.
Watch Video: The Chip That Jack Built
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Additional Resources
• The History of the Integrated Circuit (nobelprize.org)
• Jack Kilby mini-autobiography (nobelprize.org)
• Jack Kilby information page (Texas Instruments - ti.com)
