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At this location, 391 San Antonio Road, the Shockley Semiconductor
Laboratory manufactured the first silicon devices in what became
known as Silicon Valley. Some of the talented scientists and engineers
initially employed there left to found . . . — — Map (db m182658) HM
At this location, 391 San Antonio Road, the Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory manufactured the first silicon devices in what became known as Silicon Valley. Some of the talented scientists and engineers initially employed there left to found . . . — — Map (db m182679) HM
Marker One:
Built 1934 Restored 2001
Mario Ambra, Mayor • Sally J. Lieber, Vice Mayor • Ralph Faravelli • Rosemary Stasek • Matt Pear • Mary Lou Zoglin • R. Michael Kasperzak, Jr. • Kevin C. Duggan, City Manager • Cathy R. Lazarus, Public . . . — — Map (db m232027) HM
The Computer History Museum's mission is to preserve and present for posterity the artifacts and stories of the Information Age. The museum houses the collection of computers and related software, and visual media. Public exhibits celebrate the . . . — — Map (db m154426) HM
DIALOG was the first interactive, online search system addressing large
databases while allowing iterative refinement of results. DIALOG was
developed at Lockheed Palo Alto Research Laboratory in 1966, extended
through contracts with NASA, and . . . — — Map (db m182662) HM
UC Berkeley students designed and built the first VLSI reduced
instruction-set computer in 1981. The simplified instructions of
RISC-I reduced the hardware for instruction decode and control,
which enabled a flat 32-bit address space, a large set . . . — — Map (db m182630) HM
This two-room dwelling, today known as the Immigrant House, was originally located at 166 Bryant Street. It was built in the 1880s with redwood from the Santa Cruz Mountains and restored to a modest style of the 1920s, where the front room . . . — — Map (db m183435) HM
One mile north-west of this plaque lies Jagel Slough, named for the Jagel Family, who were hay and grain farmers in the area. It is believed Ozymandias P. Jagel, who settled here (1859), set up a still to carry on an illegal liquor business. He . . . — — Map (db m116026)
Gordon E. Moore, co-founder of Fairchild and Intel, began his work in silicon
microelectronics at Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory in 1956. His 1965
prediction at Fairchild Semiconductor, subsequently known as “Moore's Law,” that the number of . . . — — Map (db m182655) HM
Ames Aeronautical Laboratory was established in 1939 as the second laboratory of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. Ames achieved early fame in wind tunnel design and testing, flight testing, and supersonic and hypersonic aerodynamics. . . . — — Map (db m182299) HM
Commonly termed the "Mother of All Demos,” Douglas Engelbart and his team
demonstrated their oNLine System (NLS) at Brooks Hall in San Francisco on 9
December 1968. Connected via microwave link to the host computer and other
remote users at SRI . . . — — Map (db m182615) HM
A Pioneer Family
Henry Rengstorff grew up in Germany. Like so many others of his generation, Henry was lured to California by stories of the Gold Rush. He left home at the age of 21, sailed around Cape Horn and arrived in San Francisco in 1850 . . . — — Map (db m69152) HM
Stanford Research Institute's Artificial Intelligence Center developed the world's first mobile intelligent robot, Shakey. It could perceive its surroundings, infer implicit facts from explicit ones, create plans, recover from errors in plan . . . — — Map (db m154427) HM
Shenandoah Plaza
In Memory of the Fourteen Officers and men
USS Shenandoah
Lost September 3, 1925
Lord, guard and guide the men who fly
through the great spaces in the sky.
Be with them always in the air,
in darkening storms or . . . — — Map (db m103035) HM
Site of the John W. Whisman Home, headquarters and stopping place of the first stagecoach line between San Jose & San Francisco,
started in early autumn of 1849. — — Map (db m164637) HM
Sun Microsystems introduced SPARC (Scalable Processor
Architecture) RISC (Reduced Instruction-Set Computing) in 1987.
Building upon UC Berkeley RISC and Sun compiler and operating
system developments, SPARC architecture was highly adaptable . . . — — Map (db m182627) HM
SPICE was created at UC Berkeley as a class project in
1969-1970. It evolved to become the worldwide standard
integrated circuit simulator. SPICE has been used to train
many students in the intricacies of circuit simulation.
SPICE and its . . . — — Map (db m182665) HM
This windmill was the very last to stand at its original location in Mountain View — behind the residence at 944 San Leandro Avenue. It was purchased in 1936 from the Geo. W. Sohler & Son Company at 550 California Street. The 8-foot diameter . . . — — Map (db m183428) HM
From 1976-1978, at Hughes Microelectronics in Newport Beach,
California, the practicality, reliability, manufacturability and
endurance of the Floating Gate EEPROM — an electrically erasable
device using a thin gate oxide and Fowler-Nordheim . . . — — Map (db m182617) HM
This U-2 aircraft, NASA 708, with its sister ship, NASA 709, was obtained from the U.S. Air Force in 1971 to test the instrumentation systems being developed for the early Landsat Earth-observing satellites. The results were so successful that . . . — — Map (db m183399) HM
The Victorian Beauty
The 16 room house that Henry Rengstorff built in 1867 is a fine example of the Bay Area’s late Victorian Italianate architecture. The facade of the house is symmetrical, with the central entrance defined by a pillared . . . — — Map (db m69151) HM
In 1888, at the request of local residents, the Southern Pacific Railroad built a depot at Mountain View Station, at a cost of $4,000. The second floor was used as living quarters for the station agent.
By 1892, ten passenger trains stopped daily . . . — — Map (db m100128) HM
This eighteen room farmhouse was built by Nicholas Kristmas in 1924. By 1928, it had entered into an era of local infamy during which it was known alternatively by the names Blue and Gold Kennel Club, Whitehall Distillery, and Burton's Gold Medal . . . — — Map (db m150657) HM
