• World War II
• The U.S and "the technological way" in warfare
• Military mobilization
• FMC Corporation as Silicon Valley case study
• Technological developments
• Radar: The Harvard/M.I.T radar laboratories
• Aircraft
• Moffett Field as Silicon Valley case study
• The National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics (NACA)
• Atomic weaponry
• University of California, Berkeley
• Ernest O. Lawrence, famous Norwegian-American and the cyclotron
• J. Robert Oppenheimer
• Edward Teller
• The Manhattan Project
• From World War II to the Cold War
• The Birth of the Military-Industrial Complex
• Permanent mobilization
• War suppliers become permanent Defense Industries
• Federal Defense Related Spending
• California as Defense Center
• New Federal Institutions
• The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
• Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)
• Advanced Research Projects Administration (ARPA)
• Supported Douglas Englebart's work at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI)
• Created the ARPANet, the forerunner of the Internet
• First internet transmission: From University of California, Los Angeles to SRI, October 1969
• National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA, replaces NACA)
• Moffet Field becomes home of NASA Ames Research Center
• The Transformation of American Universities
• Technological developments
• Jet Aircraft
• Atomic weaponry: the H-Bomb
• Aerospace
• Satellites
• Missiles
• "The Space Race"
• Computers

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