Crystal Fire

Crystal Fire The Invention of the Transistor and the Birth of the Information Age Riordan & Hoddeson

The Beginnings of a Physics Revolution ,[object Object],[object Object]

1895 ,[object Object],[object Object]

1900 ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

1909 ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Proposed solution by Bohr 1913 ,[object Object],[object Object]

The Wave Function ,[object Object]

In less than 30 years… ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

John Bardeen ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Walter Brattain ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

William Shockley ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Bell Labs Solid State Physics Group ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Little-recognized Breakthrough ,[object Object]

Shockley’s Idea of a Junction Transistor

Divisive Discovery ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Construct a Point-Contact Transistor

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