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.

As with many inventions, two people had the idea for ... 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 ...

A short film from KERA profiling Nobel Prize Winner Jack Kilby, the Texas Instruments engineer who co-invented the integrated circuit (more commonly known as a microchip). On February 6, 1959, Kilby ...

One invention, coming from one person tinkering ... adopted Texan and Nobel Prize winner Jack Kilby. Kilby was born in Jefferson City, Missouri, in 1923. When he was still very young, the family ...