On Oct. 3, 1950, three Bell Labs scientists received a patent for a "three-electrode circuit element" that would usher in the transistor age and the era of modern computing.

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.

The humble transistor - smaller than a speck of dust — has been made more than any other invention in history, powering ...

Okay, let’s clear this up once and for all. Who was the real inventor of the transistor? In January of last year, Electronic Design published my article on the anniversary of the invention of the ...

Bell Labs gave its scientists the freedom to pursue basic research -- if they hadn't, the transistor would never have been invented. But the company's main goal was still to put inventions like this ...