Silicon Wires Thinner Than Hair Built This (1972)

In 1972, Texas Instruments built something in a Dallas clean room that ended three hundred years of slide rule dominance in a single decade. This documentary goes inside the factory: the silicon wafer fabrication, the TMS0100 — one of the first single-chip microcontrollers ever made — the LED bond wires thinner than a human hair, and the workers who built the device that made arithmetic personal for the first time in history. The complete production story of the first pocket calculator. Made & Forgotten — one factory, one product, one documentary.