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Transistorized!
Photo Credits
All Photos Courtesy American Institute of Physics: Emilio Segre Visual Archives Except Where Noted
People
(In alphabetical order)
|
Gene Anderson |
Akio Morita |
Organizations
(In alphabetical order)
AT&T
- Alexander Graham Bell, Courtesy AT&T
Bell Labs
- AT&T Headquarters, Courtesy AT&T, 1958
Fairchild Semiconductor
- Fairchild Building, Courtesy Fairchild
Sony
- Ibuka and Morita, Courtesy Sony
- Early days of Sony, Courtesy Sony
Background
(In chronological order)
Theodore Vail's
Boast
- Theodore N. Vail, 1919, Courtesy AT&T
Transontinental Phone Service
- Theodore Vail making long-distance phone call, 1915, Courtesy AT&T
Miracle Month At Bell Labs
- Walter Brattain, Courtesy AT&T
- Brattain's lab notebook, Courtesy Lucent
The Junction Transistor (Invention)
- William Shockley's notebook, Courtesy Lucent
- The first junction transistor, Courtesy Lucent
Patent Battles At Bell Labs
- Patent for transistor, Courtesy Lucent
The Patent Announcement
- Transistor press release, Courtesy AT&T
- Cover of Electronics Magazine, September 1948
Making Transistors
- Jack Morton
- Various point con tact transistors, Courtesy Lucent
Selling Transistors
- Old transistors, Courtesy Andrew Wylie
Germanium Transistors For
Sale
- Old transistors, Courtesy Andrew Wylie
Point Contact Transistor's
Moment of Glory
- The first point contact transistor, Courtesy Lucent
The First Transistor Radio
- Images of old transistor radios, Courtesy George Kaczowka
Nobel Prize
- Walter Brattain Receives Nobel Prize, 1956
- Shockley's Nobel Celebration, 1956
Fairchild Founded by Traitorous
Eight
- The traitorous eight
The Invention of the Integrated
Circuit
- The first integrated circuit, Courtesy of Texas Instruments
The Calculator
- Jack Kilby with hand-held computer, Courtesy of Texas Instruments
Moore's Law
- Gordon Moore
The Evolution of the Transistor
- The first point contact, Courtesy Lucent
- The first junction transistor, Courtesy Lucent
The Future of the Transistor
- Transistors, Courtesy Lucent
- South Pole, Courtesy NASA
- Albert Schweitzer, Courtesy Albert Schweitzer Foundation
- Walter Brattain Receiving Nobel Prize, Courtesy American Institute of Physics, Emilio Segre Visual Archives
- Yuri Gagarin, Courtesy NASA
- Astronaut on Moon, Courtesy NASA
- Space Shuttle, Courtesy NASA
- Exxon Valdez Oil Spill, Courtesy Exxon Oil Spill Trustee Council
- Comet Hale-Boppe, Courtesy H. Weaver (Johns Hopkins University) and NASA
(In chronological order)
The Vacuum Tube
- Vaccuum tube, Courtesy Lucent
Germanium Comes Of Age
- Silicon and Germanuim transistors, Courtesy Lucent
The Point Contact Transistor
- The first point contact transistor, Courtesy Lucent
- Point contact animation, ©1999 Twin Cities Public Broadcasting
and ScienCentral, Inc.
- A point contact transistor, Courtesy AT&T
The Junction Transistor
- The first junction transistor, Courtesy Lucent
The Modern Transistor
- Scientist holding chip-wafer, Courtsy Lucent
- Chip-wafer, Courtesy Lucent
The Chip
- Chip-wafer, Courtesy Lucent
-Graphics by Malcolm Tarlton
Wafer Maker Game
-Graphics by Malcolm Tarlton
-Bo Hammer photo by Hali Hammer
-Carl Flatow photo by Carl Flatow/FlatoGraphics
-Ira Flatow photo by Carl Flatow/FlatoGraphics
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