One day in late July, Jack Kilby was sitting alone at Texas Instruments. He had been hired only a couple of months earlier and so he wasn't able to take vacation time when practically everyone ...

A calculator seemed just the thing. In a mere two years, a TI group including Jerry Merryman and James Van Tassel, and led by Jack Kilbydeveloped a calculator small enough to be held in your hand.

It was the fall of 1965 and Jack Kilby and Patrick Haggerty of ... and plugged into wall sockets for their power. Kilby, who’d co-invented the integrated circuit just seven years earlier while ...