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Plate Nº 010 · First edition
Patent 3,138,743
Miniaturized Electronic Circuits · Jack S. Kilby
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The real thing
This one exists. Here are the facts.
- Title
- Miniaturized Electronic Circuits
- Inventor
- Jack S. Kilby, Dallas, Texas
- Filed
- February 6, 1959
- Patented
- June 23, 1964
- Primary source
- U.S. Patent 3,138,743, original sheets (public domain)
- Printing
- Made to order, one at a time
Why I made this series
Before it was in your pocket, it was a drawing filed in an office. These are the actual sheets and layouts, the moment an idea became a thing with a number on it. I redrew them so you can hang the birth certificate of a machine.

