transistor

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He could see, on that evening long ago, that this transistor would be easily manufacturable—manufacturable in great quantities.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 2026

And he saw this as a chance to bring in researchers—Shockley, Gerald Pearson, John Pierce and others—who later worked on the transistor, the solar cell and the first communications satellite.

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

The detector records detailed patterns created as electrons pass through the transistor structures.

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