DeviceGuru

This month, the world celebrates the 60th anniversary of one of the most significant developments of the 20th century: the transistor.

“More than any other single development,” the transistor “made possible the marriage of computers and communication,” boasts AT&T, whose Bell Labs research facility was the birthplace of the tiny silicon marvel.

Bell Labs scientists John Bardeen, William Shockley, and Walter Brattain shared a Nobel Prize for their invention.

AT&T notes that following its invention, the transistor replaced bulky vacuum tubes, serving as the foundation for the development of modern electronics and making possible the marriage of computers and communications.

A short video about the first transistor is available from AT&T’s website, here (.mov format) or here (.avi format).