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http://www.eetimes.com/news/se...ml?articleID=204300928
Here's a pic of the first transistor:
http://i.cmpnet.com/embedded/2...7/1207esdGanssle03.gif
Serendipitously, the very next year Walter Brattain and John Bardeen (who, with William Shockley won the 1956 Nobel Prize for this and related semiconductor work) invented the transistor. Though some claim this was the first "practical" such semiconductor, the Bell Labs scientists had actually constructed a point-contact transistor, a difficult-to-manufacture device that is no longer used and whose use was never widespread.
You've come a long way, baby!
Here's a pic of the first transistor:
http://i.cmpnet.com/embedded/2...7/1207esdGanssle03.gif
Serendipitously, the very next year Walter Brattain and John Bardeen (who, with William Shockley won the 1956 Nobel Prize for this and related semiconductor work) invented the transistor. Though some claim this was the first "practical" such semiconductor, the Bell Labs scientists had actually constructed a point-contact transistor, a difficult-to-manufacture device that is no longer used and whose use was never widespread.
You've come a long way, baby!
