1947 – John Bardeen and Walter Brattain applied two closely-spaced gold contacts held in place by a plastic wedge to the surface of a small slab of high-purity germanium. It was the next step in the development of the Transistor.
2002 – Creative Commons formally launched, unveiling Machine-Readable Copyright Licenses and a revamped website.
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