> most people know they don't know transistors. We don't know transistors because (guess!) WE WERE TAUGHT WRONG! http://amasci.com/amateur/transis.html http:/

> most people know they don't know transistors. We don't know transistors because (guess!) WE WERE TAUGHT WRONG! http://amasci.com/amateur/transis.html http://amasci.com/amateur/transis.html Latest news: apparently Shockley had to distort the explanation of the BJT transistor, saying that it was a "current amplifier," because the FET had been invented twenty years earlier, and FETs are obviously voltage-input devices. Since transistors already existed, the early Shockley transistor patents were being rejected by the patent office for "prior art." They thought the latest device was just another crystal triode invention like the FET invented by JE Lilienfeld around 1923.