The Role of Federal Telegraph in the Rise of the University

The role of war and the military in communications technology, radar, radio engineering is just laced into what's happening at Stanford. The first generation of silicon transistors that are produced in Silicon Valley all go into Minuteman 1 nuclear missiles,. Now avionics needs to go into outer space so that we can go into the missile age. That required silicon chips that required an upgrade in the kind of transistors from the vacuum triode to these semiconductors.