This and so many other HUGELY important discoveries were UNDERHYPED, like the transistor. I remember the cats-whisker diode radio I made using a crude crystal of germanium.
And then the first transistors, Miracles. Plasma screens? Flux gate compasses? Crystal timebased circuits? Non volatile solid state memory? Teflon?
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