baumhaus.digital/Studium Generale/Prolegomena to Educatio Digitale/Session 9 :: Epoch/Transistors invention
- a transistor is a semiconductor device with at least three terminals
- Shockley, Bardain at Brattain presented a functional concept on 23th December 1947 to some Bell Labs colleagues and managers
- "2,913,276,327,576,980,000,000 transistors shipped since the moment of invention" (forbes.com, 2014)
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