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Additional Reading

Michael Riordan and Lillian Hoddeson, Crystal Fire: The Birth of the Information Age (1997; also published as Crystal Fire: The Invention of the Transistor and the Birth of the Information Age, 1998), describes the fascinating science and engineering that led to the invention and development of the transistor. Ross Knox Bassett, To the Digital Age: Research Labs, Start-Up Companies, and the Rise of MOS Technology (2002), presents the corporate and technical history of the development of MOS transistors during the 1960s. Robert Buderi, The Invention That Changed the World: How a Small Group of Radar Pioneers Won the Second World War and Launched a Technological Revolution (1996; also published as The Invention That Changed the World: The Story of Radar from War to Peace, 1998), examines the development of radar and how it fueled postwar electronics.

Article History

Type Description Contributor Date
Add new Web site: Khan Academy - Transistor working. Aug 21, 2024
Add new Web site: San José State University - The History of the Transistor. Mar 29, 2024
Add new Web site: Academia - Transistor. Jun 24, 2023
Add new Web site: Stanford University - The Invension of the Transistor. May 08, 2023
Add new Web site: Engineering LibreTexts - Transistor Technology. Dec 10, 2022
Add new Web site: LiveScience - Transistor. Sep 05, 2022
Add new Web site: Science With Kids - Facts about Transistors. Apr 04, 2022
Add new Web site: Inventors and Inventions - The Transistor. Mar 26, 2020
Add new Web site: Engineering and Technology History Wiki - Transistors. Nov 29, 2019
Add new Web site: Computer History Museum - Inventing the Transistor. Nov 29, 2019
Article revised. Jan 03, 2018
Media added. May 12, 2016
Add new Web site: Buzzle.com - How do Transistors Work? Feb 14, 2013
Article revised and updated. Jun 22, 2012
Added diagram depicting movement of an electron hole in a crystal lattice. Oct 27, 2010
Added new Web site: The Electronics Club - Transistor Circuits. Jul 17, 2008
Added new Web site: Hyperphysics - The Junction Transistor. Jul 17, 2008
Added new Web site: Institute of Material Science and Applied Research - Transistor. Jul 17, 2008
Added new Web site: Nobelprize.org - The Transistor in a Century of Electronics. Jul 17, 2008
Added new Web site: IEEE Virtual Museum - Small Beginnings: From Tubes to Transistors. May 09, 2008
Added new Web site: IEEE Spectrum - The Irresistible Transistor. May 09, 2008
Added new Web site: IEEE Virtual Museum - Transistors Launch the Computer Revolution. May 09, 2008
Added new Web site: PBS - Transistor. Sep 25, 2006
Article revised. Apr 22, 2005
Article revised. Jan 11, 1999
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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