transistor

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“This looks like the transistor we’ve been waiting for,” he had written with excitement on March 17, 1955, after successfully testing the device.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 2026

At Bell Labs, Kelly would sometimes handpick teams and create such a mix, as was the case for the transistor invention in the late 1940s.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 2026

The fire was right beneath a power line, and the transistor charred.

From Slate • Mar. 25, 2026

After collecting and reconstructing the imaging data, the researchers tracked the positions of atoms within the transistor channels.

From Science Daily • Mar. 5, 2026

There was a tiny bathroom and a little living room, too, with four chairs, a table with a plastic cloth, and a transistor radio.

From "Lupita Mañana" by Patricia Beatty