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The invention of the first transistor "Point Contact Type" transistor was originated at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, NJ by William Shockley, John Bardeen, and Walter Houser Brattain.
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William Shockley developed the "Bipolar Junction" transistor theory at Bell Labs.
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The “Type A” point contact transistor entered Bell Labs for limited production.
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The “Bipolar Junction" transistor was the first grown of its kind created at Bell Labs.
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RCA and GE developed the first “Alloy Junction” transistors.
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10,000 "CK718" hearing aid transistors are produced by Raytheon.
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“Germanium Junction” transistors are prepared in large scale productions by major corporations such as GE, Radio Receptor, Raytheon, RCA, Sylvania, and Texas Instruments.
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The first all-transistor radio called the "TR-1" was developed and marketed by Regency and Texas Instruments.
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The first transistor qualified for military service was GE’s “USAF 2N43A.”
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The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to William Shockley, John Bardeen, and Walter Houser Brattain for inventing the transistor.
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The invention of the transistor celebrates its 10th anniversary.
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Germanium and Silicon are used in the first United States satellite, called Explorer 1.
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The “Planar” process was developed by Fairchild, and was used for the first high reliability transistors, and later used for “Monolithic” Integrated Circuits.
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The “Metal Oxide” semiconductor (MOS), fabricated by Karl Zaininger and Charles Mueller was demonstrated at RCA. An MOS-controlled tetrode was built at Fairchild by C.T. Sah.
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The “Silicon” transistor exceeds German speed. The fast switching germanium device for the "CDC 1604" became the first commercially successful large-scale transistor machine.
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The Elliot 903 computer system was introduced. It was a transistor based computer that had punch tape and a teletype console.
