CommanderFrank
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When you stop to think about all of the technological marvels that we have around us now, it’s hard to imagine the world without them. The transistor, one of the inventions that brought technology to where we are today, was created a mere 65 years ago today at Bell Labs.
The device is jointly credited to William Shockley (1910-1989), John Bardeen (1908-1991) and Walter Brattain (1902-1987), and it was Bardeen and Brattain who operated the first working point-contact transistor during an experiment conducted on 16 December 1947