[Thursday] The Transistor is 75 years old!

[David Crowell]

 One of the links in the Len's original link has some thoughts to ponder about restoring museum artifacts.Read the paragraphs in the section:
Overcoming the “inherent vice” of Bardeen’s music box

John Bardeen’s Terrific Transistorized Music Box

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John Bardeen’s Terrific Transistorized Music Box

In 1949 an engineer at Bell Labs built three music boxes that could electronically produce five distinct notes. ...
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Dave Crowell



    On Wednesday, December 14, 2022 at 06:10:17 PM EST, Len Arzoomanian via Thursday <thursday at newsm.org> wrote:  
 
 Some IEEE articles on the development of the Transistor. I like the fact that the inventors didn’t really understand how the point contact worked. Kind of like how a cats whisker becomes a diode when it touches a galena. It’s all magic!

Len

https://spectrum.ieee.org/special-reports/the-transistor-at-75/


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