Today in History: 6 February 1959: American electrical engineer Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments filed the first patent for an integrated circuit. He got his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and a Masters in Electrical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. It was the summer of '58 when Kilby, …
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