AMERICAN EXPERIENCE | Silicon Valley Chapter 1

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE | Silicon Valley Chapter 1 | PBS

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11 жыл бұрын

Watch the full-length episode at video.pbs.org/video/2332168287 (US Only)
Premieres Feb. 5, 2013 // Robert Noyce's invention of the microchip launched the world into the Information Age.
Led by physicist Robert Noyce, Fairchild Semiconductor began as a start-up company whose radical innovations would help make the United States a leader in both space exploration and the personal computer revolution, changing the way the world works, plays, and communicates. Noyce's invention of the microchip ultimately re-shaped the future. More at www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexper...

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@spencerbergquist781 Жыл бұрын

I was a part of this Silicon Valley Tech in the 70-80 's . It Transferred from farms to Hi-tech, and it caused the rest of us to put up with and get addicted to which we did. Still a nice place to live SanFranciscoBayArea weather-wise, expensive, but for the tech minded, there are affordable jobs. (I mean affordable jobs). Looks like an interesting Doc, I've subscribed.

@TheArfdog 11 жыл бұрын

This promises to be a remarkable documentary!

@TheArfdog 11 жыл бұрын

I find it incredible that the US is the mother of these inventions yet they are mass-produced in other parts of the world. But maybe that's the role of the most advanced economies.... intellectual property creation. The role of forging raw material into physical products seems to be more economically fulfilled by developing nations.

@nakulshetty9171 6 жыл бұрын

Always gives me goosebumps

@Cryo837 10 жыл бұрын

Everyone knows who Jobs and Gates are. But has anyone heard of Robert Noyce? He is to the modern computer what Robert Oppenheimer was to the Atomic Bomb. I bought this movie from Amazon and was shocked that I had never heard of any of these guys except Shockley (and then only for his views on evolution..). This movie should be required viewing for every student in any field of high tech. THIS is the groundwork on which all modern computer HW owes everything. Absolutely fascinating and inspiring.

@braedennoyce9612 10 жыл бұрын

I Hate To Say This, But They Are Well Know Cause They Have Money... Lots Of It... He Is The Most Important Man In The History Of The Computer. Thanks Great Great Uncle Twice Removed Or Something. ;)

@bighands69 9 жыл бұрын

Braeden Noyce They were important engineers but people rarely hear about them because they do not understand what they were doing or even achieving. Gates and Jobs were both engineers but they were more importantly product developers allowed all the high tech engineering to be filtered down to the masses. Even if both Gates and Jobs were not wealth people would still know there names.

@ednan9 11 жыл бұрын

tremendous. I live in the valley. This is awesome

@moriart13 6 жыл бұрын

yuuuge

@am.n00 Жыл бұрын

feeling great to have more knowledge

@Zachw2007 10 жыл бұрын

I enjoyed this from PBS.

@4EverDubin 9 жыл бұрын

1:50 Now that's swagger right there....

@pastorcoreyadams 11 жыл бұрын

Looks really good.

@colinmaxwelljones 2 жыл бұрын

13:31 My grandpa right there... rest in peace bossman!

@lololounge8281 2 жыл бұрын

Cool, what did he do?

@larrymelman 2 жыл бұрын

Where is the rest of this? It's over 9 years old now. Post the whole thing.

@lololounge8281 2 жыл бұрын

For real.

@RoyHolcombe 11 жыл бұрын

Fascinating!

@BB-nk3yw 5 жыл бұрын

Love it, lived it!

@docpedersen7582 6 жыл бұрын

Great program.... big thumbs down for only posting short teaser of series. Do you expect viewers to go looking for the rest on conventional TV? Here is a news flash: Some of us don't watch ANY conventional TV at all!

@Alystas 5 жыл бұрын

Well actualy most peoples intrested in that field of subject don't have conventional tv anymore

@crystalstevens4638 3 жыл бұрын

So subscribe to the PBS app. Then you'll have full access.

@luizcarlosf2 3 жыл бұрын

what is conventinal TV ?

@johngoblue2012 6 жыл бұрын

Everybody knows Bardeen did the theory, Brattain did the handiwork, and Shockley was just the manager who missed out

@ihateuutube 11 жыл бұрын

"It was like picking up the phone and talking to God." - Bob Noyce

@elizabethduplessis 3 ай бұрын

Would you turn on auto-captions?

@MrMarbles77 11 жыл бұрын

Really disappointing that the PBS website won't stream the full program in Canada, even as WNED keeps asking for money to the extent that it's branded itself a Buffalo/Toronto station.

@matsten 2 жыл бұрын

vpn bruh

@antigen4 9 жыл бұрын

doesn't tell even half the story- if you want to hear the full pre-story - check out the Computer Museum's excellent presentation "The Secret History of Silicon Valley" - and how US military capital was used to build the tech industry in what would become silicon valley eventually through DARPA Radar technology projects which fueled the Cold War. Pretty fascinating stuff.

@Sovereign_Citizen_LEO 8 жыл бұрын

Not even 1/10,000th. HP, Varian, IBM and the invention of the magnetic tape drive (and disk drive) well as RAMAC, Xerox PARC, Apple, Lockheed, Sonar, Radar, Microwave technology, radio, telecommunications, NASA Ames/ aerodynamics/ rocketry/ satellites, Philo Farnsworth and the invention of the television, Charles Herrold and the invention of radio broadcasting, on and on...

@lololounge8281 2 жыл бұрын

Well this is only the beginning part of the doc.

@jamescoughlin6357 6 ай бұрын

If anyone has the full documentary for free somewhere send me a link please!

@jpgrumbach8562 4 жыл бұрын

Tom wolfe produced a nice piece of literature concentrating on noyce's background which you can find in his book 'hooking on'. Do yourself a big favour and read it, read the whole book.

@lololounge8281 2 жыл бұрын

I'll read it if you tell me more.

@tannerVBHC 8 жыл бұрын

flying taxi @ 1:45

@bayareanewman1566 3 жыл бұрын

Sounds like fun

@dorisariasdeleon2975 11 жыл бұрын

POR FAVOR EN ESPAÑOL

@Silicon7104 Жыл бұрын

I live in the valley.

@jasonoleary3527 2 ай бұрын

Golden age of California.. look at it now!

@BarriosGroupie 10 жыл бұрын

No different to other entrepreneurs that started Google, Apple, Microsoft etc

@TheMuyfeliz123 8 ай бұрын

Øx

@givemepizzaorgivemedeath3983 5 жыл бұрын

here's the full documentary kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eqmShb14qbyRp6c.html

@hassanarif4530 2 жыл бұрын

Share me this video if you have

@givemepizzaorgivemedeath3983 2 жыл бұрын

@@hassanarif4530 The only thing i can find is this link. I think the link is one full episode. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jKpxhpVlsKuoh4E.html I can't find the full documentary, unfortunately.

@jamescoughlin6357 6 ай бұрын

@@givemepizzaorgivemedeath3983 Hey man this link doesn't work, is there anyway you could find and post the full one? I need to watch it for my class. Thanks