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1947
Transistor invented at Bell Labs
December 23, 1947
In a New Jersey lab, Bardeen, Brattain, and Shockley demonstrated a tiny germanium device that could amplify and switch electric current without vacuum tubes. Nobody outside the lab much noticed. Within twenty years the transistor would be shrinking into integrated circuits and turning the computer from a room into a chip.
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