February 6: Jack Kilby filed the first patent for the integrated circuit (1959)

Jack Kilby's original integrated circuit

Jack Kilby of Texas Instrument filed the first patent for the integrated circuit in February 1959. The idea of integrating circuits in bi-dimensional or tri-dimensional compact grid was proposed to the US Army by Jack Kilby. The project got evolved into the concept of integrated circuit. Jack Kilby was hired by Texas Instrument and he then recorded his idea of the integrated circuit and successfully demonstrated the first working example. Kilby won the Nobel prize in physics for his part of the contribution to the invention of the integrated circuit in 2000. His work is also named an IEEE Milestone in 2009.