Transistor
Invention and innovation • 1940s
Coming to Wonder Inventions on 31 October 2026.
About this story
- Subject
- Transistor
- Category
- Computing and Energy Inventions
- Where
- Global
- When
- Industrial Revolution to contemporary era
- Length
- 10 illustrated pages · about 15 minutes to read · about 11 minutes to listen
Who appears
- John Bardeen — Theoretical Physicist, Inventor
- Walter Brattain — Experimental Physicist, Inventor
- William Shockley — Physicist, Inventor
- Jack Kilby — Inventor of the Integrated Circuit
- Robert Noyce — Inventor of the Integrated Circuit
What happens on 31 October 2026
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