But the transistor that led to microelectronics was devised the following month, and the integrated circuit would only emerge more than a decade later.That detail of electronic historiography is no reason to spoil the party.
Mr Watkins writes that this book is part historiography, part cultural history, part autobiography, and "might well be called a notebook".
[Discussion of the historiography of the Black Death, as well as both quantitative and qualitative research into post-Death labour markets] Pamuk, Ş. (2007).
The tapes are so special, they say, that it would be odd if they did not prompt some change in historiography.
Bagehot watched a lesson on the end of slavery in America become a sophisticated discussion of historiography; a science lesson, on gravity and pressure, morphed into a design class the children had to design a contraption to stop an egg breaking on impact with the floor.
The Holocaust, too, did not fit into Soviet historiography, especially as post-war anti-Semitism intensified ("Every Jew is a nationalist and an agent of American intelligence," Stalin said in 1952).
Two conclusions are thoroughly demonstrated: first, the importance of the famines of the era has been underestimated in conventional historiography; secondly, in India, the indifference or incompetence of colonial rule gravely exacerbated the results.
Trianon, Yalta, Molotov-Ribbentrop, Munich the gloomy echoes of past betrayals and atrocities are inescapable.For the past 20 years, the countries of this region have been involved in what might be called "therapeutic historiography": tearing up old communist propaganda versions of history, and writing new ones.
"More than anything else," he writes, "the new historiography is a state of mind, or rather, of fashion.
It explains both the history and the historiography of the era: what happened, and why outsiders so often don't understand it.What was the last book you read for fun?"Swallowdale", by Arthur Ransome, last week.
The river plains of northern and eastern France are etched into the historiography of the first world war, just as the scars of battle the remnants of trenches, the hundreds of military cemeteries mark the French landscape.
