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What Happened on October 3rd
October 3, 1950
Transistor Inventors Receive Patent
The US Patent Office issued a patent to John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Shockley for the transistor. The three AT&T Bell Laboratories researchers had successfully tested the first of their devices two years earlier.
@TheNewsOwl The jump from the vacuum tube to the transistor was a huge leap forward in terms of size and energy consumption. I remember when the number of transistors in a portable radio was marketing fodder, proudly displayed on the case.
The transistor started a revolution in computer engineering that led to the development of the semiconductors, microprocessors, and integrated circuits common in modern computers.