Rare complete issue of Electronics from April 19, 1965, featuring the first appearance of Gordon Moore's essay, "Cramming more components onto integrated circuits," in which he observes the log-linear relationship between device complexity and time, and posits a yearly doubling in the number of components that can be fit onto an integrated circuit. This doubling facilitated the ever greater miniaturization and processing power of electronic devices. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, Inc., 1965. Bound in a red buckram hardcover library binding, containing all issues from January 11-April 19, 1965, complete with their front covers (some with affixed paper mailing labels), 8.75 x 11.25, totaling 1542 pages. In very good condition, with closely trimmed edges (with no loss of text), occasional library markings, appropriate discard stamps, and library stamps to textblock edges; the March 8, 1965 issue has some dampstaining to edges, and the April 19th issue containing Moore's article is fine and clean.
In 1975, Moore slowed his prediction of a future rate of increase in complexity to 'a doubling every two years, rather than every year.' Now known as 'Moore's Law,' this observation has been a driving force for progress in the semiconductor industry-it has been widely adopted as both a guide for long-term planning and in setting targets for research and development. It is this ever-increasing level of miniaturization that has reduced a room-sized mainframe to a handheld tablet, and made it exponentially more useful. That Moore was able to accurately establish this outlook in this 1965 article, just as computers were shifting from the transistor to the integrated circuit, is truly remarkable.
