Transistor at 60
Another technology birthday. The transistor, a physically tiny electronic device, created a gigantic disruption in the electronic industry, and subsequently in the consumer market place.
None of the mass consumed devices such as the iPod, personal computers, flat screen televisions, and an unending parade of electronic gadgets would be produced using vacuum tubes, the predecessor of the transistor.
Thank you Julius Edgar Lilienfeld, Oskar Heil, William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain for helping create this most marvelous device.
…John
