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His work with colleagues at the RSRE (Royal Signals and Radar Establishment) led him to the belief that it would be possible to fabricate multiple circuit elements on and into a substance like Silicon . In 1952 he presented his work at a conference in Washington, DC , some six years before Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments was awarded a Patent for essentially the same idea, but who did go on to manufacture working devices. In the UK of course, Dummer's groundbreaking ideas were derided and dismissed, and no finance for further development was available by either private or public finance so yet again British technology which could have led the world was discounted, rather like the ideas of Barnes Wallis ' BAC TSR-2 , or the technology of the Frank Whittle Whittle Jet Engine which was given away to the other Allies at the end of World War II . |
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