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Article #9711Re: LED history ?
From: Don Montgomery
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 1991 17:45
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 1991 17:45
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About 25 years ago I was working for a major semiconductor manufacturer in Quality Assurance. One of the test operators said she had thrown away a DO-7 silicon diode that glowed "yellow" when she forward biased the part. Needless to say, I got rather excited about this prospect of a diode that glowed, but she said she had thrown it out weeks before. Could this have been some monumental serendipity discovery that was tossed out? Our chemistry teacher in high school once told us that some of the world's greatest discoveries were poured down the drain in the lab... Don Montgomery donm@hpnmdla.HP.COM
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!sdd.hp.com!hplabs!hpl-opus!hpnmdla!donm From: donm@hpnmdla.HP.COM (Don Montgomery) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: LED history ? Message-ID: <7380013@hpnmdla.HP.COM> Date: 24 Jan 91 17:45:39 GMT References: <1991Jan16.034246.12843@zoo.toronto.edu> Organization: HP Network Measurements Div, Santa Rosa, CA Lines: 15