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Re:The Surprising Story of the First Microprocessors (2016) by xyzzy21 on Friday September 17, 2021 @04:39PM (#28570654)
But it means nothing. People patented perpetual motion machines throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. So does that make the patent meaningful? NO!
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Re:The Surprising Story of the First Microprocessors (2016) by Rochus on Friday September 17, 2021 @05:52PM (#28571307)
Apparently this is an emotional topic; personally I have no stakes in it (besides that I'm a trained electrical engineer and had lectures in patent law), I'm just curious; Colby sent me this link which describes an experiment where they built Lilienfelds device in the nineties: http://public.gettysburg.edu/~bcrawfor/BECrawford-MS-UVM.pdf
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