Walter Brattain and John Bardeen of Bell Telephone Laboratories were responsible. Our information and communications world owes a debt to a team of physicists who took theories that had been kicking around for decades, and - after years of false starts and dead ends - got the first transistor to work early in the postwar era. Just about everything electronic is full of them. You’d be hard-pressed to find a gadget or gizmo within reach that does not contain a transistor.
We’re exploring the cultures of innovation that brought us the device that changed everything.
The transistor was born in December of 1947, in New Jersey, and it has defined the last half of the 20th century and the first quarter of the 21st. Odds are, you are surrounded by them right now. The future began 75 years ago this week with the invention of something small that’s considered the most manufactured item in human history.
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