John Bardeen and Walter Brattain

John Bardeen and Walter Brattain invented the transistor in New Jersey in 1947.

William B. Shockley

John Bardeen, Walter H. Brattain, and William B. Shockley of Bell Telephone Laboratories invent the transistor.

Bell Labs

Bell Labs devised the transistor to replace manual telephone exchange switches with automatic electronic switches.

Bardeen, Brattain and Shockley

In 1947 Bardeen, Brattain and Shockley invent the transistor, the building block enabling many digital technologies including portable radios, touchtone phones, computer microchips and color television.

Bell Laboratories, New Jersey, William Shockley, Walter Brattain and John Bardeen

Just before Christmas 1947, at Bell Laboratories, New Jersey, William Shockley, Walter Brattain and John Bardeen successfully invented the world's first transistor.

Walter Brattainand William Shockley at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, N.J.,

The transistor, the basic building block of the electronics industry, was developed in 1947 by John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Shockley at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, N.J., to replace the vacuum tube.

William Shockley , leading a Bell Labs team

In 1947, William Shockley, leading a Bell Labs team, invented the transistor.