Interesting piece of trivia...
Julius Edgar Lilienfeld, an Austro-Hungarian physicist invented the MOSFET in 1925 and the electrolytic capacitor in the 1920’s. He filed several patents describing the construction and operation of transistors as well as many features of modern transistors. When Brattain, Bardeen and Shockley tried to get a patent on their device, most of their claims were rejected due to the Lilienfeld patents.
Speaking of the transistor, there is now a drive to prevent a park being named after its lead inventor, William Shockley, because of his views on race. Pretty soon the leftists will try to remove or rewrite the first few centuries of the U.S.’s history.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125167291476670823.html
No doubt reverse-engineered from the Roswell crash of the Radio Shack delivery saucer from Alpha Centauri.
How far we’ve come. Got my headphones on, plugged in to my laptop.
The CK722 was my first transistor, sometime in the mid 50s, followed by the 2N107..Wow, I am getting old, but remember some things :(
Al Gore invented the internet and now the NYT invents the name “transistor”. Gee, I’m not so sure about this. Wouldn’t it have been published in scientific papers, proposals, journals, etc., first? Just guessing here, don’t clobber me.
Always rhought Bell Labs invented it?
Was an AE in the CG ..Hardest course I ever took was Tran Theory at NAS Jax...nothing made sence it all just “was”..PNP,NPN etc geshhhh
So was it a PNP or an NPN transistor?
It is very heart lifting to see that most of these technological inventions took 4 to 6 years to perfect. We’ve just past year 3 of our own novel electronics device and although it works, it doesn’t work well yet.
I had a GE kit shortwave radio feeding a tube pa amp. It worked pretty well until the day I plugged the amp in backwards, (no polarized plug on it). So my receiver had 120 volts running into the headphone out, straight through to ground. Exploding transistors are really LOUD.