Mark Burgess, Transistor History, 2008. Describe la sinergia científico-tecnológica-empresarial puesta en juego en el proceso. Walter Britain stayed with Bell Labs for many more years to come before become a Physics Professor at the University of Illinois. Transistor Electrónica Historia de la Electrónica Enlaces externos. Four years later, parent company Western Electric announced it. Shockley, Bardeen and Brattain of Bell Laboratories. Hornbeck, in A History of Engineering and Science in the Bell System: Electronics Technology. The transistor was invented in 1948 by Drs. Shockley left Bell Laboratories to form his own business in California, in the area which would become known as Silicon Valley. For the Bell Labs angle on transistor invention and development, see The Transistor by J. Most current digital technology, including tablets and mobile phones, still use this principle and forms the staple component of the technology.įollowing their achievement the trio involved with the revolutionary discovery shared the 1956 Nobel Prize for Physics. However, I don’t think anyone at the time would have predicted the impact that this invention would have for years to come. Named the “transistor” by electrical engineer John Pierce, Bell Labs publicly announced the revolutionary solid-state device at a press conference in New York on June 30, 1948.Īt the time there was speculation that this would have an impact on electronics and electronic communication. The voltage flowing through one side of the metal was modulated by the current flowing on the other piece of metal. In December 1947 the team lead by Shockley made a significant breakthrough, they noted that two pieces of Germanium held together by a plastic wedge. But perhaps the most important invention of the modern era was the transistor. That April they conceived a “field-effect” amplifier and switch based on the germanium and silicon technology developed during the war, but it failed to work as intended. Fire, agriculture, writing, and many other discoveries have completely changed human existence. The Transistor was invented by John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Shockley, who all worked at Bell Labs, the American research and scientific. Working alongside a Walter Brattain and John Bardeen, Shakely embarked on a project to replace the unreliable vacuum tubes with new semiconductor technology. 'Without the invention of the transistor, Im quite sure that the PC would not exist as we know it today.'Bill Gates On December 16, 1947, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain, physicists at Bell Laboratories, jabbed two electrodes into a sliver of germanium. The latest focuses on the invention of the transistor and the impact it has had on current technologies which we may now take for granted.įollowing his return from World Ward 2, William Shockley took employment with Bell Engineering, the engineering subsidiary for Bell Telecoms. Our latest blog is another in the series of key scientific discoveries in the 200 years we have been in business.
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