transistor

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And he saw this as a chance to bring in researchers—Shockley, Gerald Pearson, John Pierce and others—who later worked on the transistor, the solar cell and the first communications satellite.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 2026

“This looks like the transistor we’ve been waiting for,” he had written with excitement on March 17, 1955, after successfully testing the device.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 2026

"There was a lot of development between the discovery of a reaction for sequencing DNA and modern genomics; decades between the first transistor and putting a billion transistors on a chip," Chait says.

From Science Daily • Mar. 25, 2026

The fire was right beneath a power line, and the transistor charred.

From Slate • Mar. 25, 2026

My sister’s transistor radio announced that all the schools would be open, this despite more snow overnight than we had seen the last three winters combined.

From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt