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.

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 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 ...

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.

Morris Tanenbaum, a physical chemist at Bell Laboratories in the United States and the inventor of silicon transistors, died on February 26, 2023 at the age of 94. In Memoriam - Morris Tanenbaum ...

Transistors, invented almost one hundred years ago, are considered by some to be an invention just as important to humanity as the telephone, the light bulb or the bicycle.