"Silicon Valley prequel": A story about entrepreneurship from Stanford University

The process of Silicon Valley's fame, though a history of entrepreneurial heroism, is a high-tech development. Before the computer revolution, it witnessed the rise of radio, the birth and development of vacuum tubes. The Silicon Valley is the most important place for the development of the technology of vacuum tube transition to transistor. Silicon Valley has its way, and it must start with Stanford, which is itself an entrepreneurial story. The 15-Year-old Lan Stanford died of typhoid fever in 1883, the son of the California Railroad King, an only child at old James Leland, who served as governor of California. The Stanford couple are middle-aged and we can't imagine the grief of the couple losing their son. The second year after the death of Little Leland, Stanford made the greatest act of his life, donating 35 square kilometres of land in Paloato, plus 20 million of dollars in start-up funds, to the creation of a world class academic center at the University of Little Langley. At Stanford University, which advocates individualism and freedom, the university has always adhered to the concept of practical education since its inception, and since then Stanford has advocated that teachers and students can participate directly in entrepreneurial activities without affecting the teaching and research work. The freedom of the wind, but also attracted a lot of girls come to study. The proportion of boys and girls in Stanford University remained around 3:1, and many female students majored in science and became a beautiful landscape in American education. Shockley's mother, Mary, who calls herself the transistor's grandmother, is the first female science graduate at Stanford University, and she is also the number-one female mineral surveyor in American history. 1982, in the Future of Industrial Society "International Symposium, the father of Silicon Valley," the title of the Stanford Industrial Park, the main initiator Frede Terman has a good conclusion: the word University (University) is from Latin. In Latin, university is also the meaning of business. "The Stanford Industrial Park is not an innovation, we are just pushing a new revival," he said. "In 1951, when the Stanford Industrial Park was officially launched, the first company to enter was Varian. Varian has an unusual affinity with Stanford, where the company's founder, Varian Brothers, was born and raised, and brother Russell was a Stanford graduate, while another founder, William Hansen, was a professor at Stanford. The trio are the inventor of Klystron, and Stanford University has allocated 100 of dollars in research funding to support their research. Klystron is a high-frequency amplifier used to produce microwaves, which later became the main component of modern medical linear accelerator. In retrospect, the development of radio was the first boom of Silicon Valley, and Stanford University has also exported a number of entrepreneurial talents for the related ventures in the Radio field. Due to low radio cost and simple technology, it attracts beginners and technical amateurs. And the era of the Internet storm, the era of the colorful life of the dream, amateur radio from the beginning of the development of a lot of maverick, unrealistic, people look forward to the inspiration burst, overnight wealth. With Terman, Varian, Hewlett-Packard founder Hulit and Packard, these radio enthusiasts compared to the early 20th century, Siril Airville is the most famous entrepreneurial star, is the future of these entrepreneurs Idol, he set off a radio craze, graduated from Stanford University. Herville, a university graduate from Stanford in 1909, tried to broadcast the Blue Danube to listeners in Altos and Mountain View, 5 miles from Palo. Not long after, Airville, with the help of Stanford President David Joeden and some professors, set up his own company in Paloa: Paulson Wireless telephone and telegraph company, which became one of the largest wireless telegraph companies in the United States two years later and subsequently renamed the Federal Telegraph Company. Every great tech company has a lot of great people, or, conversely, because the same company has nurtured many people who affect the entire industry, it has become the architect of the industry. Although the Federal Telegraph Company was defeated in the subsequent competition, and was bought by Marconi in 1931. But the Federal Telegraph Company has left its mark on Stanford and the world, and it is undoubtedly one of the creators of the radio industry. It affects the Frede Terman, the university students of David Packard and Hewlett, and later the father of the transistor "William Shockley" and other Silicon Valley geek. Shockley in Palo Alto, the inventor of the transistor, the most famous figure in the early days of Silicon Valley, when the Federal Telegraph Company was founded as a 10-year-old child. At that time, Li Hu De Foreste was the most famous legendary figure. When the Federal Telegraph Company was founded, Li Hu De Forest announced that he would join the post of research director. Before joining, he invented the first vacuum tube-transistor in the High-tech field has a reputation, transistor is his life more than 300 patented inventions in the first invention. Forrest led his team 1911-1913 at the Federal Telegraph Company, designed the first vacuum tube speaker and oscillator, which proclaimed the birth of the electronic age. By first adjusting the current without requiring a mechanical switch, Forrest's attempt "facilitated the development of later radio communications, long-distance calls, radar and television." It was not until 40 that the transistor's invention made the vacuum tube loudspeaker overshadowed. The birth of the electron tube paved the way for the development of broadcasting, communication, television and computer technology, and the industrial history has stepped into the electronic era. But the shortcomings of the Tube are also obvious: large size, large power consumption, short life, fragile structure and so on, which in turn restricts the further development of electronic technology. The electronics industry is calling for the terminator of the electron tube. There are a lot of big names associated with the Federal Telegraph Company, and Terman worked at the Federal Telegraph Company for a summer vacation at Stanford University. Challie Liton also worked for the Federal Telegraph Company, and later he created the Litton Industrial company. Challie Liton that the market sales of vacuum tube manufacturing equipment is not good enough, so decided to design and manufacture their own glass blow lathe, to produceRadio uses 50-kilowatt vacuum tubes. Litton Industrial Co., Ltd became the world's leading arms company. To the vacuum tube technology constantly upgrading, and finally ushered in subversive innovative products-the birth of the transistor. During the Second World War, two new technologies were promoted, one of which was microwave technology, which was initially found in the klystron of Varian's study, applied to radar detection, and was soon used in the field of wireless communication technology. The second is information processing technology. In wartime Germany, Britain and the United States invented the first modern computer, used to calculate the complex trajectory of the shells, to crack the enemy's secret information. Later, computers proved to be powerful and useful in helping companies with financial management and large-scale data analysis. These technologies are called great innovations of the 20th century, but the third technological innovation-the transistor-has more far-reaching effects. The wonderful thing about transistors is that they replace the high-temperature brittle, energy-wasting, slow-moving vacuum tubes with tiny, reactive, and highly responsive, electrical crystals, and raw materials are just the most common silicon, oxygen and copper in nature. Transistors have contributed to the renewal of generations of electronic products and electronic devices, and electronic products and electronic instruments constitute the hottest emerging industry in the the 1950s. Shockley, known as the father of transistors, is also the best-known innovator and loser of business. In 1955, Shockley returned to Parato to establish his own company, the Shockley Semiconductor laboratory. Shockley's company is the first real semiconductor company in Silicon Valley. He summoned 8 outstanding young people from the east, called Chook Liebaje ", including Noyce, Moore, Spock, Raymond and other people, later Chook Liebaje" in 1957, the group job-hopping, so that this community was renamed eight Rebel will. With the support of the industrialists Schelman Ferre Rothschild, they created the fairy-child semiconductor company. 1967, the establishment of 10 years of child-led semiconductor sales have reached 196 million U.S. dollars, this time is the early formation of Silicon Valley. The formation of modern Silicon Valley is precisely because of the management problems of the child semiconductor company, the parent company flatly rejects the children's semiconductor company's employees to participate in the sharing of their huge profits created. As a result, in less than 10 time, all the departments of Xian Tong Semiconductor company suffered a serious brain drain. A few years later, the company has created more than hundreds of companies, mostly in Silicon Valley, and the majority of chip companies. Reporter Tang Heffler published a series of articles, using Silicon Valley "to describe the start-up companies he observed to gather, and later Silicon Valley," the word is used down.