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75th Anniversary...

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Peter W.

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Dec 12, 2022, 10:45:43 AM12/12/22
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... of the Transistor.

This week.

Peter Wieck
Melrose Park, PA

Charles Lucas

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Dec 12, 2022, 12:27:27 PM12/12/22
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Cool. This is the same week as the Nobel Prize Awards too. These events coincidentally happened around the same time
of the year. Just a little interesting trivia.

Turd Ferguson

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Dec 13, 2022, 5:16:54 PM12/13/22
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Walter Houser Brattain and H. R. Moore made a demonstration to several
of their colleagues and managers at Bell Labs on the afternoon of 23
December 1947, often given as the birth date of the transistor. The "PNP
point-contact germanium transistor" operated as a speech amplifier with
a power gain of 18 in that trial.
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