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
He hadn’t checked the weather and felt vaguely unsettled about that because the Frog didn’t have any radio gear except a cheap little transistor battery-powered receiver that hardly ever worked right.
From "The Voyage Of The Frog" by Gary Paulsen
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