Talk:Point-contact transistor

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2009.03.09 (March 9th, 2009)

It is often cited that Shockley, Brattain and Bardeen worked for Bell Labs.

This article states that their work was demonstrated on Decenber 23rd, 1947 and implies that this event occurred at Bell Labs in New Jersey.

However, while studying Electronics at Pasadena City College in 1997, I learned the following facts from my textbook:

Shockley, Brattain and Bardeen were conducting their research at The California Institute of Technology (CalTech) in Pasadena, CA;

The first working transistor model was completed and demonstrated at CalTech;

The implication of the date and late hour of completion was that the engineers were attempting to finish their project before leaving for their Christmas Holiday plans. December 23rd was on a Tuesday in 1947.

I will append this comment with the Library of Congress title number for my text book source at a later time when I have retrieved this book from storage.

-cw

Christopher Woodcock cw@cw7.org

CS Woodcock (talk) 19:26, 9 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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I'm sure a link to how to make your own point contact tr would be appreciated by many. Its quite doable. 82.31.207.100 (talk) 14:10, 24 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hadn't seen this, but I've already done just that. Pol098 (talk) 15:44, 22 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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