1st Newspaper Appearance of Transistor Invention Announcement
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Note: Newspaper clips on this page were obtained using my paid subscription to Newspapers.com, which I use often when writing articles for RF Cafe and other venues. Hmmm.... let us see what made the front page of the July 1, 1948 edition of Murray Hill, New Jersey's, The Madison Eagle newspaper: "Man Found Dead, Wedged in Drain on Park Edge," "Lawyer Fined $50 on Zone Charge," and Sandra Dean Stevenson had been born two weeks earlier. Oh, also included was "Invention Replaces Vacuum Tube" and "Local Man Invents New Device in Electronics for Bell Lab; Could Revolutionize Radio." Page 10 ran, "Bell Laboratory Releases Data on Newly Invented Transistor." It is widely known that Drs. Brattain, Shockley, and Bardeen formerly announced on December 23, 1947, within the walls of Bell Labs in Murray Hills, their invention of the world's first semiconductor transistor with a gain of greater than unity. According to a search I did using my subscription to Newspapers.com, the earliest instance of a newspaper article about it was July 1, 1948. Wikipedia says Bell Labs kept the news contained until late June, 1948. You probably recognize the now-iconic photo of the three inventors gathered around their transistor in the lab. It is the very first public appearance of the image. Underneath is printed,
Posted August 18, 2017 |
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