Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. John Bardeen, Walter Brattain and William Shockley had submitted the patent application for a "three-electrode circuit element ...

On Dec. 16, 1947, the future began with the invention of the transistor. A lab notebook indicates that researchers at Bell Telephone Laboratories first got the thing to work on this day 75 years ago.

Students work in groups to select an electronic invention and research who and what was involved in its development. Then they create a display that summarizes the main events surrounding the ...

Modern humans have existed for around 300,000 years, and in all the time we've been here, we've made a lot of things. In the early days, homo sapiens fashioned tools from flint and other materials, ...

What electronic device recently celebrated its 60th anniversary? Not sure? Here are some hints. It was called the greatest invention of the 20th century. Walter Brattain, John Bardeen and William ...

As of Dec. 23, 2017, the transistor was officially 70 years old. The invention of the transistor may have been the greatest technology development of the 20 th century. It has given us the integrated ...

In December 1947, William Shockley and his team of scientists came up with a solution to a problem vexing their employers at AT&T Corp. At the time, voice was amplified over long distances using ...