Shockley, Bardeen, and Brattain of Bell Labs

1947 Shockley, Bardeen, and Brattain of Bell Labs invented the transistor, which replaced the vacuum tubes, which previously ran computers, radios, and other electronics.

Bardeen, Brittain, and Shockley

Bardeen, Brittain, and Shockley invented the venerable transistor, this modern factory was turning out hand-constructed discrete transistors by manually scoring and singulating die from wafers, then welding gold wires from the die pads to the package lead frames.

William Shockley , leading a Bell Labs team

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

by John Bardeen, Walter Brattain and William Shockley at Bell Labs in New Jersey on Dec. 16, 1947

A transistor is a little electronic switch capable of amplifying electric current, invented by John Bardeen, Walter Brattain and William Shockley at Bell Labs in New Jersey on Dec. 16, 1947.

John Bardeen and Walter Brattain

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

by John Bardeen

The first transistor, a bipolar point-contact transistor, is invented by John Bardeen and Walter Brattain under the supervision of William Shockley at Bell Labs.

Bell Telephone Laboratories

Bell Telephone Laboratories discovered the transistor, which took over many of the functions of temperamental glass vacuum tubes.

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.