The Electron: A Biography and the Emergence of Soldering

Folks, My interest in the history of electronics was piqued when I attended a mid-1990s lecture by Noble Laureate Arno Penzias on the same topic. Penzias was a co-discover of the Cosmic Microwave Background, which strongly supports the Big Bang creation theory of the universe. A striking feature of Penzias’s talk was when he said, “In 1972, one megabyte of computer memory costs $1 million. That is about what a small apartment building in New Jersey costs then. Today (1994) a megabyte of memory..