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...William Shockley and his team at Bell Labs invented the transistor, which had the ability to take an electric current and translate it into on-off binary data. Thus began the digital age. Robert Noyce and Jack Kilby, a decade later, came up with ways to etch many transistors--eventually millions--onto tiny silicon wafers that became known as microchips...
...earth dweller can make his or her mark on our dusty satellite. For a mere $38, Applied Space Resources appliedspace.com will etch one page of your text or photos on an "Eternity Disk," left, which will be left on the moon by Lunar Retriever 1 in 2002. With luck, future moongoers may be able to find it among all the other stuff left behind by 14 Soviet and 24 NASA spacecraft...
...Harold Lancer, my Beverly Hills dermatologist, is laughing. He had warned me to take some Valium before the procedure (or risk scaring off his celebrity clients, no doubt). I can't stand any more. "Ye-ooowww!!" I yell out loud. Then it's over. I leave with a red Etch A Sketch drawing on my cheek...
...Emerson, who lived there in 1834-1835, began writing his first great essay, "Nature," in the second-floor study. Hawthorne lived there with his beloved bride Sophia from 1842 to 1845, writing Mosses from an Old Manse. On windows throughout the house, Sophia used her diamond wedding ring to etch words of joy about her marriage and the beauty that surrounded her, including the ice-draped trees outside that she described as "glass chandeliers." The vegetable garden in the back was planted by Thoreau as a wedding gift...