140 Inverting the Paradox of Excellence
base. Relative to that base, one gold strip had a positive voltage (called the emitter) and the other a
negative voltage (called the collector). They applied a signal between emitter and base. There was
sufciently large amplication in the voltage between the collector and the base. It could do every-
thing the old electron tube could do; they called this a transistor.
6.2.3 forD proDuCTion sysTem
A key event in the history of the U.S. auto industry was Henry Ford’s introduction of his famous
Model T. In 1902, the Olds Motor Works constructed and sold 2500 small two cylinder gasoline
cars priced at $650. But Ford had in mind a large, untapped market—a car for people living on
farms; around 1900, half of ...