It all started at Bell Labs
On Dec. 16, the transistor will turn 60. It was born at Bell Labs with the first on assembled in 1947. It was called a point contact transistor because amplification or transistor action occurred when two pointed metal contacts were pressed onto the surface of the semiconductor material. Image and description courtesy of Bell Labs.
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