Rebirth in America

In September 1951, the world's first transistor radio was launched. It was launched three years earlier than the original transistor radio in history. It was low in production cost, compact and easy to carry. The casing of this radio is made of plastic and comes in red, black, blue and white colors. It looks very futuristic and technological.

The soapbox-sized radio costs $65.50, which is equivalent to a blue-collar worker's weekly income. It is more expensive than the Tube Radio, but its performance, appearance and various data comparisons are much better. It costs $10, and Carpenter Electronics makes about $55 per unit sold.

Every time a revolutionary product is launched, it is the time to make huge profits. The same is true for this transistor radio, which is very profitable.

Karls is a businessman. He is forty-three years old and has gained some weight.

He was walking home, thinking about what gift to buy for his wife. Tomorrow would be their twentieth wedding anniversary.

"What kind of gift should I give? A ring? Well, I already gave it last year. Or maybe a gold necklace?" Karls thought to himself while looking around for any jewelry stores.

As I was walking, I suddenly heard a burst of music. He took a closer look at a black man coming towards him, and the voice came from him.

"Strange!" he thought to himself, so he took a closer look and saw that the black man was holding a black box in his hand. He wanted to ask, but for some reason he couldn't.

Karls shook his head and passed by the black man. After walking a few steps, he turned back and listened.

He confirmed that it was music played on a radio station.

"Could that be a radio?" Karls reacted immediately. He had never seen such a small radio. In his impression, the radio was as big and heavy as a wooden box.

When he thought that this was a radio, he felt itchy in his heart, and he almost chased after the black man and stopped him for questioning. Fortunately, he didn't catch up because he heard another piece of music. No, there was more than one, it was like there was music moving everywhere in the streets. The usually quiet streets were filled with this music.

This time, he saw several young white men, both men and women. They were talking and laughing, and they all held a small black radio in their hands.

Karls immediately went up to stop them and asked eagerly: "Is this a radio in your hands?"

"That's right! This is a newly launched transistor radio. It's so light that it can be held in your hand and put in your pocket." A young man in his twenties demonstrated to him and put the radio into his pocket. The music still didn't stop, it was still so clear and loud.

"Where did you buy this radio? How much did it cost?" Carls asked hurriedly. He wanted to buy one for his wife.

When the young people heard this, they all laughed. This made Karls confused. He didn't know why those people were laughing. Is this a funny question?

Another young man explained to him: "They are no longer available. These radios are not expensive, only 65.5 US dollars each. We bought them at the store in front. Many people were grabbing them just now, but we didn't get them."

A young man said: "Several people have asked us this. Like you, they want to buy it, but they are too late."

Karls was stunned. He didn't expect that this kind of radio was so easy to sell and was sold out all at once.

Those young people were about to leave, but Karls quickly stopped them: "Can you sell one to me? I'm willing to pay double the price."

One of the young men looked at the money Karls took out, thought for a moment and said, "Okay, I'll sell you my phone."

After getting his wish, Karls happily walked away with the radio. He turned on the radio all the way, turned the sound to the maximum, and walked on the road with pride. The passers-by who passed by looked at him with surprised eyes, and Karls felt an indescribable feeling of comfort in his heart.

Carls twisted it left and right, changing the radio channels. He saw the trademark on the radio and whispered: "Carpenter! Well, it turns out to be called Carpenter Radio."

When he got home, before he entered the house, he heard music from the radio station inside. Karls felt a little strange, and at the same time he had a bit of an ominous premonition. He opened the door and saw his wife standing at the door, also holding a Carpenter radio.

"How come you..."

"Hey, I saw this radio was pretty good on the road, so I bought one. Unexpectedly..."

The two of them looked at the radio in each other's hands, and suddenly felt like they couldn't laugh or cry.

"I'll take it back tomorrow!" Karls said.

Unexpectedly, his radio was not refunded in the end and was eventually bought at a high price.

At the same time, in the marketing department of Carpenter Electronics, calls were coming in one after another. The employees were extremely busy, and their job was to reassure anxious sellers while they waited patiently for workers on the production line to turn out the radios.

The employee picked up the phone and said repeatedly: "Sorry, our company's radios are not in stock yet. Please wait a few days."

As soon as I put the phone down, the ringing sounded again.

The employee explained to the customer on the phone until he was almost drooling.

Seeing this situation, Lao Qiao quickly found Bart and asked him to find a way to solve the production capacity problem.

"We can't continue like this. We must increase the production line! All equipment and workers will be used to produce radios." Old Qiao said this. He knew that the longer the delay, the higher the level of customer dissatisfaction.

Bart thought for a while and agreed to Lao Qiao's method. He himself was not very good at management, so he had to leave it to others to take care of it. Bart's current focus is on developing new products, and he focuses on the progress of the R\u0026D department. After Alex's reminder, he is now busy using transistors and integrated circuit boards in other home appliances.

Old Joe is Bart's old friend. When he and Bart were in the factory, he was a lower-middle-class manager. Because Lao Qiao is a black man, no matter how capable he is, he cannot rise further. When Bart asked Old Joe to work with him, Old Joe immediately agreed.

With Bart's support, Old Joe became very prosperous in Carpenter Electronics Company, almost to the point of being the number one. Bart would only be discussed with Bart when it came to major matters, and usually just talk and Bart wouldn't interfere too much in Lao Qiao's decision.

At first, some senior executives in the company were not convinced by Lao Qiao. One or two of the white executives were very discriminatory against black people and deliberately made trouble for Lao Qiao. Lao Qiao remained calm. After getting familiar with the situation, he found the fault of these people and punished them all in one go. While everyone was silent, he promoted a few people who were on his side to replace those who had been killed.

When those people discovered that Bart completely listened to Lao Qiao's opinions, they realized that they had to either get out or cooperate with Lao Qiao's work honestly. At this time, Lao Qiao used another gentle trick to appease people's hearts. Within a month, everyone in the company was managed submissively by Old Qiao.

Under the management of Lao Qiao, Carpenter Electronics Company is in good order, its production efficiency continues to improve, and the cost of its products has also dropped again and again. Their company's radios were so popular that people in one state were buying them at first, then people all over the country were buying them, and finally the whole world needed them.

Their production capacity has been unable to keep up, and other radio manufacturers have been putting pressure on Carpenter to release their patents or at least license their production. There was no choice but to authorize other companies to produce "Carpenter" radios.

At this time, they had not yet authorized the patent for integrated circuit boards, and other manufacturers also believed that they could circumvent this patent. However, Bart and others did not expect that just this patent could stop everyone. It can be said that without the invention of the integrated circuit board, there would be no computer age, let alone a large number of cheap electronic products.

The integrated circuit board was not originally developed by Kilby until 1958. It only placed electronic components such as resistors, capacitors, and transistors on a single semiconductor chip, but it could greatly reduce the size of the entire circuit. Greatly reduces the cost of electronic products.

The invention of integrated circuits paved the way for the development of various functions of electronic products and ushered in a new era in the history of electronic technology. This is an invention that can change the world. Kilby won the Nobel Prize for this invention alone.

Alex knew that the integrated circuit board he made was a very crude thing, but it still had great potential for development. Therefore, he asked Bart to concentrate manpower and material resources to explore the possibilities of integrated circuits, and pointed out several key points.

For example, silicon dioxide diffusion technology and PN junction isolation technology are used to create aluminum strip connections on the oxide film. The components and wires are integrated into one, thus enabling the mass production of integrated circuit boards for industry. UU reading www. uukanｓhu.net

Originally, Alex could make these with his own hands. When he was in college, he had made circuit boards by himself. He only used the simplest knife-engraving plate-making method, but he also studied other plate-making methods. , such as paint plate-making method, mimeograph plate-making method, etc.

However, he felt that if he did everything himself, what would he do to earn so much money? Isn't it necessary to make money for enjoyment? If you have money, you can hire people to do things. He simply wrote these things down and gave them to Bart, asking Bart to find someone to study them.

"Money is a good thing!" Alex couldn't help thinking as he watched a group of staff being pushed around by him: "No wonder Steve Jobs likes money so much. It turns out that once you have money, you can let others do things according to your own ideas. And if the things you make are liked by the world, the glory will be yours."

Alex always believed that Jobs was not a technician, but a businessman with money and ideas. Gang Leader Qiao just spent money on his ideas, and then sold the products to others. He relied on other talented people. In other words, Jobs paid for the time of talented employees so that they could help him realize his ideals.

This is what Alex is doing now, and only a fool would do it himself. It's not like he has nothing to do. Alex is currently busy writing books, studying and recording, so it’s better not to bother him with these little things.

What I didn't expect was that Angel also thought that now that she was rich, Alex should not be allowed to work so hard to make money. She wanted her sons to go to school. Go to elementary school, middle school, college!