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90_HR0153
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1 HOUSE RESOLUTION
2 WHEREAS, On December 16, 1947, three scientists of Bell
3 Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, Nobel Prize winners John
4 Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Shockley succeeded in
5 inventing the transistor; and
6 WHEREAS, The transistor has given rise to a multi-billion
7 dollar microelectronics industry that today produces a
8 dazzling variety of products and services; and
9 WHEREAS, There is neither an industry nor an individual
10 in this or in any other industrialized country that has not
11 benefited from the transistor; and
12 WHEREAS, Lucent Technologies and its 10,000 employees in
13 Illinois continue this tradition of innovation by
14 manufacturing and developing other communications products;
15 and
16 WHEREAS, This successful manufacturing effort has
17 contributed to the general economic well-being of the
18 community; therefore, be it
19 RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
20 NINETIETH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we
21 mark the 50th anniversary of the discovery and development of
22 this extraordinary device by proclaiming December, 1997 as
23 "The Month of the Transistor" in Illinois.