AT&T Archives: The Inventors of the Transistor Discuss Their Success

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Foundations of the Information Age: Invention of the Transistor was part of a series of short films produced by Bell Labs in the 1980s. The films on developments in tech that led to the information age.
Footage courtesy of AT&T Archives and History Center, Warren, NJ

[@josephanderson7237]

Surprised they got those 3 in a room together again without killing Schotkey.

[@brencrun5068]

They seem to have omitted the transistor inventors discussing their success!

[@ravichanana3148]

Before the transistor came, the J.C.Bose's PbS semiconductor diode detector, patented in 1904.

[@michaelborisow815]

Is it just me, or is this narrator harder to understand than Walter-Actual-Brattain?

[@lucianfreedom]

It was the first invention to be taken seriously. Lilienfeild didn't publish his research to back up his patent