[Thursday] The Transistor is 75 years old!
David Crowell
ka1edp at yahoo.com
Fri Dec 16 14:54:12 MST 2022
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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