Oct. 9, 1962: First Visible LED Is Demonstrated | This Day In Tech | Wired.com

[Karl W4KRL]

It is unusual to consider that it took half a century to go from the red LED
to a practical replacement of the incandescent bulb. Think of how much
faster other inventions developed like the airplane or personal computer.

There is a nice biography of Holonyak at:

http://illinois.edu/here_now/videos.html?destinationID=mbPAkSfY5U6szjNeqq6ZF
w&contentID=kQM_2XaW1UCgkH1e9tdMLA


Karl W4KRL

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