The first point-contact transistor had been made. Telling the Brass For a week, the scientists kept their success a secret. Shockley asked Bardeen and Brattain to show off their little plastic ...
A major breakthrough came in 1947, when John Baden, William Shockley and Watter Brattain of Bell labs unveiled the first functioning point contact Germanium transistor. In 1950, Shockley developed the ...