Fairchild Patent Notebooks
The Fairchild Semiconductor patent and laboratory notebooks date from before the dawn of the integrated circuit. The work contained in the notebooks revolutionized the science and manufacturing of microelectronics and drove the explosive growth of the region we now know as Silicon Valley. Fairchild was founded by Gordon Moore, Robert Noyce, Jean Hoerni, Julius Blank, Eugene Kleiner, Victor Grinich, Jay Last, and Sheldon Roberts. The history-making contributions of these entrepreneurs included inventing the modern semiconductor manufacturing technology (the planar process); building the first practical integrated circuits; the invention of the low power technology CMOS that enables every portable digital device today; and pioneering the development of semiconductor memory. All of these breakthroughs and many others critical to our modern technological society grew from ideas documented in these notebooks spanning 1957 through the 1980s.
Thanks to Texas Instruments, which donated the Notebooks in 2012, the Computer History Museum is excited to continue preserving the heritage of Fairchild Semiconductor and its extraordinary founders. CHM encourages monetary donations to continue their work preserving and providing access to the Fairchild Notebooks.
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This search will only retrieve the 207 patent notebook volumes that have been designated the most significant. To access the remaining 1127 Fairchild patent notebook titles, please search our entire catalog.
Fok patent notebook (#396)
Fairchild Semiconductor
Text, 1964-02-14-1964-10-13
102722951
Moore patent notebook (LN #2)
Fairchild Semiconductor
Text, 1961-07-06-1962-04-24
102722999
Nall patent notebook (#106)
Fairchild Semiconductor
Text, 1960-08-08
102723000
Fok laboratory notebook (Meetings Book)
Fairchild Semiconductor
Text, 1960-02-23-1960-10-04
102722956
Rudin patent notebook (#526)
Fairchild Semiconductor
Text, 1966-05-10-1966-07-22
102723012
Moore patent notebook (L.N.#4)
Fairchild Semiconductor
Text, 1965-04-03-1968-03-01
102723966
Sander patent notebook (#1290)
Fairchild Semiconductor
Text, 1972-02-09-1977-06-07
102723017
Early patent notebook (#3191)
Fairchild Semiconductor
Text, 1987-04-27-1987-06-16
102723942
Salsbury patent notebook (#1235)
Fairchild Semiconductor
Text, 1970-03-26-1973-05-24
102723923
Shyam patent notebook (#1174)
Fairchild Semiconductor
Text, 1969-10-27-1970-04-10
102723024
Moll patent notebook (#499)
Stanford Electronics Laboratories
Text, 1958-10-07-1966-09-30
102723928
Jenkins patent notebook (#597)
Fairchild Semiconductor
Text, 1966-10-05-1968-07-12
102723930
Shyam patent notebook (#869)
Fairchild Semiconductor
Text, 1968-1970
102723029
Siegel patent notebook (#12)
Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation
Text, 1958-02-03-1959-03-02
102723031
Grinich patent notebook (#2)
Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation
Text, 1957-11-07-1963-07-02
102723916
Sklar patent notebook (#769)
Fairchild Semiconductor
Text, 1967-11-14-1969-07-07
102723036
Barry patent notebook (#415)
Fairchild Semiconductor
Text, 1965-02-15-1968-03-15
102723935
Tremere patent notebook (#177)
Fairchild Semiconductor
Text, 1960-11-22-1970-03-02
102723043
Wandry patent notebook (#260)
Fairchild Semiconductor
Text, 1967-10-13-1969-03-04
102723048
Wandry patent notebook (#472)
Fairchild Semiconductor
Text, 1963-01-03-1967-12-11
102723050