# Mountain View **Domain:** Place / Semiconductor and Aerospace History **Doc Type:** Canonical Place Node **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition **Mountain View** is a city in Santa Clara County central to the history of Silicon Valley and home to Moffett Field, NASA Ames, Shockley Semiconductor's original laboratory and later computing companies. ## Nexus Context [[articles/The Evolutionary Roots of Silicon Valley|The Evolutionary Roots of Silicon Valley]] uses Mountain View as a convergence site: silicon-device lineage at Shockley, aerospace computation at Ames and evolved flight hardware at Moffett Field. The city's role should not be reduced to headquarters geography. The important infrastructure includes federal research, transportation, land, skilled labor and institutional adjacency. ## Sources / Provenance - Computer History Museum, Silicon Valley history: https://computerhistory.org/ - NASA Ames Research Center: https://www.nasa.gov/ames/ ## See Also [[wiki/Silicon Valley|Silicon Valley]], [[wiki/Moffett Field|Moffett Field]], [[wiki/Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory|Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory]], [[wiki/NASA Ames Research Center|NASA Ames Research Center]]