RIP Morgan Sparks - - Inventor of Transistor
jfrancis | 05/07/2008 @215 | edit post

ALBUQUERQUE—Morgan Sparks, who led Sandia National Laboratories for nearly a decade and invented a device that has revolutionized almost every aspect of modern life, has died. Sparks died Saturday at his daughter's home in Fullerton, Calif., Sandia said Tuesday in a news release. He was 91. http://www.lcsun-news.com/ci_9170909

Re: RIP Morgan Sparks - - Inventor of Transistor
jfrancis | 05/07/2008 @215 | edit post

So if you use a computer . . . Thank Morgan.

Re: RIP Morgan Sparks - - Inventor of Transistor
Almost-Human | 05/07/2008 @382 | edit post

quote:  jfrancis wrote on 05/07 @215 So if you use a computer . . . Thank Morgan. Should you not have thanked him before he died ?

Re: RIP Morgan Sparks - - Inventor of Transistor
killadore | 05/07/2008 @473 | edit post

Ironic..Why aren't this kind of people being pasted all over the news so we can worship them instead of shitty celebrities who(most of the time) can't even do their own job properly? [Message edited on 05/07 @473]

Re: RIP Morgan Sparks - - Inventor of Transistor
Andy--Jones | 05/07/2008 @565 | edit post

He invented the worlds smallest sewing machine! Cool