Santa Clara Valley Historical Association

Strong waves of creative energy have flowed in recent decades from a place known as Silicon Valley, encircling — and changing — the world. How it happened is explored through this website.

The phenomenon known since the 1970s as Silicon Valley can be traced to origins in the 1890s when Leland Stanford established a university in Palo Alto and urged that its students not only gain knowledge but be able to apply their learning in the real world.

SILICON VALLEY: A 100 Year Renaissance [DVD] introduces viewers to the inventors, scientists, engineers, and entrepreneurs whose visions created the Silicon Valley phenomenon and its limitless consequences for the future.

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SILICON VALLEY: 110 Year Renaissance [Hardcover] collects and passes on to future generations an understanding of how the Silicon Valley phenomenon came to be.

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