Who can you count on when the chips are down? For one rural city in Kansas, the answer is easy. In the town square of Great Bend, visitors can find a bronze statue dedicated to Jack Kilby, the inventor of the microchip, who once called Great Bend home. Jack St. Clair Kilby was born in 1923 in Jefferson City, Missouri. His father, Hubert, became president of the Kansas Power Company, a rural utility company in Great Bend, and moved his family there when Kilby was in third grade. Kilby was…
