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Title Silicon Valley [(DVD) videorecording] : where the future was born / WGBH ; a Film Posse production for American Experience.

Publication Info. [United States] : American Experience, [2013]
PBS Distribution.
Location Call No. Status
 95th Street Adult DVD Nonfiction  338.4 AME    AVAILABLE
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Description 1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Audience Rating: Not rated.
System Details DVD, widescreen, Dolby digital 5.1 surround,region 1, NTSC.
Language Subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Note Title from container.
Originally presented as an episode of American Experience television program.
Summary 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, launching the world into the Information Age.
Subject Microelectronics industry -- California -- Santa Clara County -- Videodiscs.
Computer industry -- California -- Santa Clara County -- Videodiscs.
High technology industries -- California -- Santa Clara County -- Videodiscs.
Genre Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Added Author American Experience Films.
PBS Distribution (Firm)
WGBH Educational Foundation.
Added Title Where the future was born
ISBN 9781608838363
Standard No. 841887018395
Music No. SILC601 American Experience
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