December 23, 1947 capped off what would become known as the “Miracle Month,” a period that started on November 17 of the same year and that would bring about the development of the transistor. That ...
The telephone company had problems with vacuum tubes, too, and hoped to find something else to use for switching telephone calls. The idea of somehow using semiconductors (solid materials such as ...
The future began 75 years ago this week with the invention of something small that’s considered the most manufactured item in human history. Odds are, you are surrounded by them right now. The ...
“The first digital use of the transistor for consumers was in a calculator,” says Rick Bensene, curator of the Old Calculator Web Museum.
The very first transistor -- the foundational block which almost all of modern civilization was built from -- was created at AT&T's Bell Labs on December 23 1947. This first transistor was huge and ...
Lucent Technologies Inc.’s Bell Labs, the research lab that invented the transistor in 1947, announced the development of a tiny new transistor made of a simple cluster of organic molecules. Although ...
The modern world wouldn't be what it is if it weren't for a little piece of technology that emerged from Bell Labs in 1947. Photos: Sixty years of transistors Michael Kanellos is editor at large at ...
Who had a big birthday last week? NAB’s Radio TechCheck newsletter points out that while the transistor was invented in 1947 at Bell Labs, the first transistorized product hit the consumer market on ...
In What’s the point?: The Point Contact transistor I discussed Shockley’s white paper on the theory of the Point Contact Transistor. Let’s look further into this early transistor design. It is ...
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