Electronics · Recorded milestone
Transistor
Recorded year1947
Bardeen, Brattain and Shockley at Bell Labs build a solid-state amplifier to replace vacuum tubes.
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Sources & evidence
Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.