Morgan Sparks, 91, a former member of the Bell Telephone Laboratories scientific team who played a crucial role in the development of the improved, second- generation transistor in the early 1950s, ...

Sunday saw the transistor reach a venerable milestone – the ubiquitous technology is now sixty years old. Bell Labs employees William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain constructed the first ...

Walter Brown began working in Shockley's lab several years after the invention of the transistor—a time when the lab was extremely social. Coworkers often spent their weekends together going out at ...

You hear nothing but your radio. – “On Your Radio,” Richard Lanham, 1957 ON WEDNESDAY, June 29, 1948, Bell Labs called a press conference at its West St. headquarters to announce it had developed and ...

In this lesson, students search for transistor-based devices at school. They use the results of their search to explain the significance of the transistor in their lives. A transistor is a tiny device ...

In this lesson, students build two circuits and explore how transistors function. When Bell Labs introduced the transistor in June of 1948, a spokesman proudly announced "This cylindrical object . . .

The ever-shrinking features of transistors etched in silicon have always required pushing the cutting edge of manufacturing technology. The discovery of atomically thin materials like graphene and ...