I don't think there would be many copyright dates on the chips. They might think that Texas ruled the world from the TI logo being on everything, though.
You can see both copyright dates, and plenty of other English text. While in 1940 this would have represented incredible futuristic technology, it's pretty obviously made by humans and not a piece of alien magic. It also has components like resistors and capacitors with markings which would have been immediately obvious to 1940s electronics experts.
