James Bowery <[email protected]> wrote: "His early attempt at the experiment was abandoned before it was begun for > lack of time and attention. >
His own attention. He was busy with other things. > Bardeen, in a lecture given at Altgelt Hall at the University of > Illinois<http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=100290&cid=8549664>while > concerned that it might be one of his last chances to set the record > straight due to his failing health, talked about the need to actually hide > their work on the transistor from Bell Labs management, including Shockley. > > The account is garbled. The rolling cart was, indeed, to hide research from Shockley, but that was in 1949 after the initial discovery. By that time there was a full-scale project underway to develop the transistor. The work they were hiding was Teal's, who was testing an approach Shockley did not approve of. See the excerpts in "Crystal Fire" here: http://www.lenr-canr.org/acrobat/RothwellJtransistor.pdf Shockley was like that. He made similar blockheaded mistakes after he left Bell Labs opened up his own small lab. In other words, this can happen in a big lab or a small lab. Anytime there is more than one person working on a project there will be disagreements of this nature. They could not have made the initial breakthroughs in 1948 without Shockley's help. > David P. Reed, widely regarded as the intellectual father of the Internet, > was actually approached by a private company, Viewdata Corporation of > America (an offshoot of Knight Ridder News) in 1982 with a proposal to set > an industry standard that would have used 64 bit object identifiers with > distributed hash routing tables . . . > The Internet was developed in 1969 by ARPA (later DAPRA). Perhaps it was not optimum in retrospect, but no technology ever is. - Jed
