• DOI:10.1109/MSPEC.2005.1526906
Corpus ID: 34953819

How Europe missed the transistor

@article{Riordan2005HowEM,
  title={How Europe missed the transistor},
  author={M. Riordan},
  journal={IEEE Spectrum},
  year={2005},
  volume={42},
  pages={52-57}
}

M. Riordan

Published 2005

Engineering

IEEE Spectrum

This paper relates how the invention of the transistor occurred twice and independently of each other. In late 1948, shortly after Bell Telephone Labs announced the invention of the transistor, surprising reports began coming in from Europe about how two physicists from the German radar program, claimed to have invented a strikingly similar semiconductor device, which they called the transistron. This dual, nearly simultaneous breakthrough can be attributed in part to the tremendous wartime… CONTINUE READING

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