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The idea of the transistor was patented in 1926, but it took all the hard work of making a transistor by the Bell Labs team for discrete transistors to become a
by wycx 10y ago
The idea of the transistor was patented in 1926, but it took all the hard work of making a transistor by the Bell Labs team for discrete transistors to become a reality.
See [1] for an excellent summary of the birth of the transistor.
[1] http://www.amazon.com/Crystal-Fire-Transistor-Information-Technology/dp/0393318516 http://www.amazon.com/Crystal-Fire-Transistor-Information-Te...
- jrapdx3 10y agoThe book you reference is no doubt a lot more thorough, but the wikipedia article is a pretty good brief overview: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_transistor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_transistor