Tag: transistor
Tech Time Warp: John Bardeen leaves Bell Labs
Tech Time Warp: John Bardeen leaves Bell Labs
Even technology giants have personality conflicts at work — and sometimes a new opportunity leads to even greater achievements, like a second Nobel Prize in Physics. That’s an extreme example, but it’s a reminder that even brilliant innovators face workplace...
Tech Time Warp: The transistor quietly slips on to the scene
Tech Time Warp: The transistor quietly slips on to the scene
Today it’s widely accepted one of the greatest — if not the greatest — inventions of the modern world is the transistor, and it’s well known that the defining demonstration of the transition took place Dec. 23, 1947. But this...
