Steven Canning wrote:
December 16, 1947 ( sixty years ago ) the transistor
was developed by John
Bardeen , Walter Brattain, and William Shockley from Bell Labs.
The rest, as they say, is history !!
Best regards, Steven
See Lilienfeld's January 1930 patent; 1, 745, 175.
FETs before bipolars.
Steve