What began as research to improve telephone service became one of the most important inventions in electronics history. In 1945, AT&T’s research division, Bell Labs, began working on technology to ...

In this lesson, students build two circuits and explore how transistors function. When Bell Labs introduced the transistor in June of 1948, a spokesman proudly announced "This cylindrical object . . .

The future began 75 years ago this week with the invention of something small that’s considered the most manufactured item in human history. Odds are, you are surrounded by them right now. The ...

“The first digital use of the transistor for consumers was in a calculator,” says Rick Bensene, curator of the Old Calculator Web Museum.

Bell Laboratories, one of the world’s largest industrial laboratories and now part of Lucent Technologies, was originally the research and development arm of the giant telephone company American ...

The modern world wouldn't be what it is if it weren't for a little piece of technology that emerged from Bell Labs in 1947. Photos: Sixty years of transistors Michael Kanellos is editor at large at ...

Lucent Technologies Inc.’s Bell Labs, the research lab that invented the transistor in 1947, announced the development of a tiny new transistor made of a simple cluster of organic molecules. Although ...

As of Dec. 23, 2017, the transistor was officially 70 years old. The invention of the transistor may have been the greatest technology development of the 20 th century. It has given us the integrated ...

In this lesson, students build two circuits and explore how transistors function. When Bell Labs introduced the transistor in June of 1948, a spokesman proudly announced "This cylindrical object . . .