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From: donm@hpnmdla.HP.COM (Don Montgomery)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: LED history ?
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Date: 24 Jan 91 17:45:39 GMT
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About 25 years ago I was working for a major semiconductor manufacturer in
Quality Assurance.  One of the test operators said she had thrown away a
DO-7 silicon diode that glowed "yellow" when she forward biased the part.

Needless to say, I got rather excited about this prospect of a diode that
glowed, but she said she had thrown it out weeks before.  

Could this have been some monumental serendipity discovery that was tossed
out?

Our chemistry teacher in high school once told us that some of the world's
greatest discoveries were poured down the drain in the lab...

				  Don Montgomery
				  donm@hpnmdla.HP.COM