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Alabama Governor Thomas Kilby (622 words) |
 | Thomas Erby Kilby was born in Lebanon, Tennessee, on July 9, 1865. |
| In 1905 Kilby was elected mayor of Anniston and re-elected in 1907. |
| Kilby moved from local to state government in 1911 when he was elected to represent Calhoun County in the State Senate. |
| TI People | Jack Kilby (305 words) |
| During the summer of that year, working with borrowed and improvised equipment, he conceived and built the first electronic circuit in which all of the components, both active and passive, were fabricated in a single piece of semiconductor material half the size of a paper clip. |
| It was a relatively simple device that Jack Kilby showed to a handful of co-workers gathered in TI's semiconductor lab more than 40 years ago -- only a transistor and other components on a slice of germanium. |
| Little did this group of onlookers know that Kilby's invention was about to revolutionize the electronics industry. |
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