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The New Semi Conductor, by William Shockley
Don is a mechanical engineer. He doesn't know anything about electrical engineering, but he's working in this new semi conductor division. Don gets posted as a junior engineer sylvania's ipswich, massachusetts plant. Not quite the same glamor as done out in southern california. So after work, he's living in a hotel, by the way. It's like some company sponsord hotel. Like, what a sad existence.