Crystal fire : the invention of the transistor and the birth of the information age
This is the story of the transistor, one of the most important inventions of the 20th century, which was invented at the Bell Laboratories in December 1947 by John Bardeen and Walter Brattain and developed by their co-Nobel Prize winner, William Shockley.
History
x, 352 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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