At the Bell Telephone Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, USA, the first demonstration of a transistor took place on June 30th 1948. The Transistor was invented by three Americans, John Bardeen, Walter Houser Brattain, and William Shockley at Bell Telephone Laboratories. The essential element of the transistor was a tiny wafer of germanium, which basically is a semiconductor. At the time the world used vacuum tubes for electronics, the transistors could perform the same functions, but occupy a fraction of the space, and used a fraction of the power. and as a result of its success the three inventors shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1956.
Date:
June 30th 1948
Name(s):
John Bardeen,
Walter Houser Brattain,
William Shockley
Occupation:
Inventors
Location:
Murray Hill, NJ, USA
June 30th 1948
Name(s):
John Bardeen,
Walter Houser Brattain,
William Shockley
Occupation:
Inventors
Location:
Murray Hill, NJ, USA
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Additional Information:
- Bell Labs – Wikipedia
Nokia Bell Labs (formerly named AT&T Bell Laboratories, Bell Telephone Laboratories and Bell Labs) is an American research and scientific development company, owned by Finnish company Nokia. - History of the transistor – Wikipedia
A transistor is a semiconductor device with at least three terminals for connection to an electric circuit. The vacuum-tube triode, also called a (thermionic) valve, was the transistor’s precursor, introduced in 1907. - Bell Labs – Engineering and Technology History Wiki
Since the early 1900s Bell Telephone Laboratories, or Bell Labs, has been a major source of technological experimentation and change. Bell Labs has sponsored research far beyond the limits of its original focus, the telephone. - Invention of the Transistor – PBS
“The transistor was probably the most important invention of the 20th Century, and the story behind the invention is one of clashing egos and top secret research….” - World’s First Transistor Invented by Bell Telephone Laboratories – YouTube