On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 3:42 AM, Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Mike Carrell <mi...@medleas.com> wrote: > > Zone melting purification is standard in the semiconductor industry since >> the 1940’s when it was developed at Bell Laboratories, enabling the >> development of the transistor. . . . >> > > It was secretly developed after hours, against the explicit orders of > management, with the equipment stashed in a closet during working hours so > that no one would find out and put the kibosh on the project. > > Does that sound familiar? > > See: > > http://www.lenr-canr.org/acrobat/RothwellJtransistor.pdf > > William Shockley was in charge and he did not want people wasting their > time on ultra-pure materials. If he had had his way, transistors would have > remained a useless laboratory curiosity for many years. Shockley was > brilliant but he had poor judgement when it came to engineering, technology, > and business. He was kind of a paranoid nut too. He started a company, > "Shockley Transistor Company" and ran it into the ground. But it was a great > accomplishment despite everything, because it was training ground for the > people who started Fairchild and the subsequent "Fairchildren." > Why don't make pure magnetic materials so that transformer efficiency can increase? And why is transformers under load more lossy than those unloade. The explanation of transfromer losses that I have read can't explain why the loss is proportional to the effect through the transformer. David
