transistor
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The invention of the transistor in 1948 hugely reduced the size and electricity consumption of computers.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 26, 2026
L.A. literature: In a durably famous metaphor for Southern California, “The Crying of Lot 49’s” heroine, Oedipa, compares the sight of a distant sprawling suburb to a transistor radio’s printed circuit board.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 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
Was it always so, or did they multiply vastly, along with telephones and new shoes and transistor radios and cellophane-wrapped tomatoes, in our absence?
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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