17 Dec 07 Happy Birthday

The transistor, the ubiquitous building block of all electronic circuits, was 60 years old yesterday. 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 made the first working point-contact transistor on 16 December 1947.

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