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:
110 Year Renaissance

The constellation known today as Silicon Valley represents the choicest achievements of America's high technology through the 20th Century and now into the 21st. The purpose of this book is to collect and pass on to the future generations an understanding of how this phenomenon came to be. Silicon Valley is unique in many ways, but its character found roots more than a hundred and ten years ago. Dozens of high technology founders and inventors provide personal perspective thoughout the pages.

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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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