Happy Birthday to Shockley's baby

jackinnj · 21st December 2007, 12:04 PM

How did we pass this up ? -- the transistor had it's 60th birthday on December 16th -- Elektor email mentioned this morning.

Nordic · 21st December 2007, 12:05 PM

Happy Birthday to the Transistor!

jackinnj · 21st December 2007, 12:08 PM

oops, I searched under "December 16" and only got unrelated hits. you can remove the post.

Nelson Pass · 21st December 2007, 06:03 PM

I have an original color photo of the transistor, actually signed
by the inventors.

A scanned copy of this (1.1 MB) can be downloaded:

www.passlabs.com/np/Transistor.jpg

jaycee · 21st December 2007, 09:56 PM

Can you imagine some scientists coming up with that these days ? They'd be fired on the spot!!

It's amazing that modern transistorised electronics evolved from something that looks so crude

21st December 2007, 12:04 PM	#1
jackinnj diyAudio Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Llanddewi Brefi, NJ	Happy Birthday to Shockley's baby How did we pass this up ? -- the transistor had it's 60th birthday on December 16th -- Elektor email mentioned this morning.

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21st December 2007, 12:05 PM	#2
Nordic diyAudio Member Join Date: Sep 2005	Happy Birthday to the Transistor!

21st December 2007, 12:08 PM	#3
jackinnj diyAudio Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Llanddewi Brefi, NJ	oops, I searched under "December 16" and only got unrelated hits. you can remove the post.

21st December 2007, 06:03 PM	#4
Nelson Pass The one and only Join Date: Mar 2001	I have an original color photo of the transistor, actually signed by the inventors. A scanned copy of this (1.1 MB) can be downloaded: www.passlabs.com/np/Transistor.jpg

21st December 2007, 09:56 PM	#5
jaycee diyAudio Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Norwich, UK	Can you imagine some scientists coming up with that these days ? They'd be fired on the spot!! It's amazing that modern transistorised electronics evolved from something that looks so crude

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