Of all Bell Labs amazing inventions, none was more influential than the transistor. Conceived in 1947 by John Bardeen, Walter Brattain and William Shockley, this tiny device revolutionized the world by enabling powerful yet mobile computers and pocket-sized gadgets. More @Wikipedia
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