The very first transistor -- the foundational block which almost all of modern civilization was built from -- was created at AT&T's Bell Labs on December 23 1947. This first transistor was huge and ...

When scientists at the Bell Telephone Laboratories produced the first germanium transistor, they knew they had found a long-awaited short cut through the great glass jungle of the electronics age ...

SINCE the initial publications by Bardeen and Brattain (see Nature, Dec. 25, 1948, p. 982) on the transitor, several articles have appeared and talks have been given by members of the Bell Tele-phone ...

There was a time when all major corporations maintained film production departments to crank out public relations pieces, and the electronic industry was no exception. Indeed, in the sea-change years ...