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1954

Geoffrey W.A. Dummer, British radar scientist, said  on a symposium on electronics the following:

The reason that a lot of money was spent towards the research of 'solid state physics', in other words electronics in solid form, while there is gas in a vacuum tube, was the Korean war. American jet fighters needed reliable electronics.

Again the war effort stimulated the development of computers.

 

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