The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
by Jon Gertner · 15 Mar 2012 · 550pp · 154,725 words
a weak AC signal into DC, so it could be heard through a headphone. Three Bell Labs researchers in particular—Jack Scaff, Henry Theurer, and Russell Ohl—had been working with silicon in the late 1930s, mostly because of its potential for the Labs’ work in radio transmission. Scaff and Theurer would
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cracks from where the material had cooled too quickly—rectified current in one direction, and some samples rectified current in another direction. At one point, Russell Ohl came across a sample that seemed to do both: The top part of the sample went in one direction and the bottom in the other
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deeper detail in both Walter Brattain’s AIP oral history with A. N. Holden and W. J. King and an AIP oral history interview of Russell Ohl by Lillian Hoddeson. 15 Scaff, “The Role of Metallurgy in the Technology of Electronic Materials.” 16 Ibid. 17 Morgan Sparks, “Semiconductor Research,” Bell Laboratories Record
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close look at the actual first transistor, now on display at Alcatel-Lucent headquarters in Murray Hill. Also, the oral histories of Lillian Hoddeson (especially Russell Ohl, Gerald Pearson, Addison White, and John Bardeen) and Harriet Zuckerman’s oral histories of Bardeen, Brattain, and Shockley proved vital, as did the private Bell
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Holden (AIP) Charles Kao (AIP) Katherine Kelly (AIP) Jack Kilby (Charles Babbage Institute) Robert Lucky (IEEE) John Mayo (IEEE) Stanley Morgan (AIP) Foster Nix (AIP) Russell Ohl (AIP) Barney Oliver (Hewlett-Packard) Eugene O’Neill (IEEE) Gerald Pearson (AIP) John Pierce (Caltech) John Pierce (AT&T) John Pierce (IEEE) Ian Ross (IEEE
The Switch: How Solar, Storage and New Tech Means Cheap Power for All
by Chris Goodall · 6 Jul 2016 · 271pp · 79,367 words
worked out that it was photons that imparted energy to electrons, causing the flow of electricity – the finding for which he won a Nobel Prize. Russell Ohl, an American engineer at Bell Labs, developed a breakthrough understanding in the late 1930s of how to produce a more efficient cell using by creating