The transistor is the most evolved piece of technology in history, contends Will Swope, a vice president at Intel. “Before, we were making them one at a time.

The Invention of the First Transistor, November 17-December 23, 1947. Getting Wet. On November 17, 1947, Walter Brattain dumped his whole experiment into a thermos of water.

The transistor is today’s “Engineering Week Key Moments.” Their history can be traced back to 1907 with the development of the thermionic triode, a device that enabled amplified radio ...

75 years ago, the transistor ignited the fire of modern innovation. The transistor was born in 1947 at Bell Labs in New Jersey. We’re looking into the culture of innovation that made it possible.

“The various historical records say that the transistor was invented Dec. 23, 1947 at AT&T’s Bell Laboratories by scientists William Shockley, John Bardeen, and Walter Brattain.

On Dec. 16, 1947, the future began with the invention of the transistor. A lab notebook indicates that researchers at Bell Telephone Laboratories first got the thing to work on this day 75 years ago.

This December will mark the 50th anniversary of the invention of the transistor, and what better way to celebrate than with a scandal? While the Nobel Prize was awarded to three men from Bell Labor… ...

But perhaps the most important invention of the modern era was the transistor. (Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak argued this case in a 2014 column for Popular Mechanics.) ...