Silicon Valley - 100th Anniversary

[JonFo]

I've been reading some great blog posts by Steve Blank, a silicon valley entrepreneur, and this one seemed of interest to this group, especially my tube-head friends:

The Facts: Vacuum Tube Valley – Our 100th Anniversary
To my surprise, I discovered that yes, Silicon Valley did start in a garage in Palo Alto, but it didn’t start in the Hewlett Packard garage. The first electronics company in Silicon Valley was Federal Telegraph, a tube company started in 1909 in Palo Alto as Poulsen Wireless. (This October is the 100th anniversary of Silicon Valley, unnoticed and unmentioned by anyone.) By 1912, Lee Deforest working at Federal Telegraph would invent the Triode, (a tube amplifier) and would go on to become the Steve Jobs of his day – visionary, charismatic and controversial.

* Federal Telegraph and Lee Deforest in Palo Alto are the first major events in what would become Silicon Valley. We need to reset our Silicon Valley birthday calendars to here

This excerpt is from this post: http://steveblank.com/2009/04/20/th...y-part-v-happy-100th-birthday-silicon-valley/

The whole series is indexed here: http://steveblank.com/category/secret-history-of-silicon-valley/