Seventy Years of Getting Transistorized [Historical]
@article{Guarnieri2017SeventyYO, title={Seventy Years of Getting Transistorized [Historical]}, author={Massimo Guarnieri}, journal={IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine}, year={2017}, volume={11}, pages={33-37} }
Vacuum tubes appeared at the break of the 20th century, giving birth to electronics [1]. By the 1930s, they had become established as a mature technology, spreading into areas such as radio communications, longdistance radiotelegraphy, radio broadcasting, telephone communication and switching, sound recording and playing, television, radar, and air navigation [2]. During World War II, vacuum tubes were used in the first electronic computers, which were built in the United Kingdom and the United…
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