The invention of the transistor is one of the most important inventions of the 20th century. The transistor was invented in ...

The transistor is the unsung hero of modern life — powering everything from smartphones to satellites. But how did it begin?

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Modern humans have existed for around 300,000 years, and in all the time we've been here, we've made a lot of things. In the early days, homo sapiens fashioned tools from flint and other materials, ...

The telephone company had problems with vacuum tubes, too, and hoped to find something else to use for switching telephone calls. The idea of somehow using semiconductors (solid materials such as ...