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 future began 75 years ago this week with the invention of something small that’s considered the most manufactured item in human history. Odds are, you are surrounded by them right now. The ...

Bell Laboratories, one of the world’s largest industrial laboratories and now part of Lucent Technologies, was originally the research and development arm of the giant telephone company American ...

Students work in groups to select an electronic invention and research who and what was involved in its development. Then they create a display that summarizes the main events surrounding the ...

Saswato R. Das writes about physics and astronomy. A little electronic device that triggered one of the most dramatic technological explosions in history turns 60 on Sunday. The humble transistor and ...

December 23, 1947 capped off what would become known as the “Miracle Month,” a period that started on November 17 of the same year and that would bring about the development of the transistor. That ...

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 ...

Vacuum tubes, invented in 1904, were used in early electronics and computing to control the flow of electrons. They were largely replaced by the invention of transistors in 1947. Both the vacuum tube ...

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