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Inventions
The Transistor
Bell Labs · December 1947
More transistors have been manufactured than any other artifact in human history. A small current at the base (or voltage at the gate) controls a large current between collector and emitter — amplification, switching, and every bit of digital logic we rely on.
Key specifications
Invented
Dec 1947 · Bell Labs
Inventors
Bardeen, Brattain, Shockley
Nobel Prize
1956
Modern gate
~5 nm
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