**Re: [Boatanchors] Re First American Transistor Radio Sold

Sat, 29 Mar 2003 22:08:19 -0700

one thing I need to add, although we have this wonderful collection of bell
solid state artifacts we  are lacking on some of the  other companies
endeavors.... like  examples of projects made of CK-722's ( yea the blue
transistor!) and other things along that line that are important things to
show in the historical timeline....
if anyone has  ck-722 or 2N107 etc etc and want to share some  our address
is below...

Thanks Ed Sharpe archivist for SMECC

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 http://www.smecc.org
to see other engineering fields, communications and computation stuff we
buy, and by all means  when in Arizona drop in and see us.

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Duane Fischer, W8DBF" <[email protected]>
To: "Gerry Steffens" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2003 9:18 PM
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Re First American Transistor Radio Sold

> Outstanding Jerry! Now, did you know this or crack open a few books to get
the
> answers?
>
> I wish you would have continued on with the experiment as it went along
under
> the influence of the water. I know the eventual results, but how it
progressed
> would be interesting to know.
>
> DBF
>
>
> ----------
> From: Gerry Steffens <[email protected]>
> To: 'Duane Fischer, W8DBF' <[email protected]>;
[email protected]
> Subject: RE: [Boatanchors] Re First American Transistor Radio Sold
> Date: Saturday, March 29, 2003 10:56 PM
>
> The germanium transistor was first demonstrated privately at Bell Labs
> Dec. 23, 1947, by William Shockley and his research team.
>
> Transistor team was John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Shockley
> who were replacing vacuum tubes and mechanical relays and
> revolutionizing the entire electronics world was awarded the Nobel Prize
> in 1956.
>
>
> On November 17, 1947, Walter Brattain dumped his whole experiment into a
> thermos of water. The silicon contraption he'd built was supposed to
> help him study how electrons acted on the surface of a semiconductor --
> and why whatever they were doing made it impossible to build an
> amplifier. But condensation kept forming on the silicon and mucking up
> the experiment. To get rid of that condensation, Brattain probably
> should have put the silicon in a vacuum, but he decided that would take
> too long. Instead he just dumped the whole experiment under water -- it
> certainly got rid of the condensation!
>
>
> "So I toyed around in my mind: How can I do this experiment -- I was
> still being lazy; of course I could have evacuated the thing, but that
> was the sample that had been fixed up to put down in this thermos and it
> wasn't exactly conducive to evacuation; and it would have taken some
> time to do this."-- Walter Brattain, January 1964
>
> First integrated circuit (IC) demonstrated by inventor Jack Kilby of
> Texas Instruments in 1958.
>
> Gerry
>
> Collecting & Restoring since 1959
> Gerald Steffens P.E.
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> Rochester, MN  55904
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Duane Fischer,
> W8DBF
> Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2003 8:53 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [Boatanchors] Re First American Transistor Radio Sold
>
>
>
> Very good! Many of you knew the answer. Texas Instruments developed the
> four
> transistors used in this set. But AT&T owned a certain lab that invented
> the
> first transistor.
>
> What is the name of the lab and where was it located?
>
> What is the name of the person who invented the first transistor?
>
> What year?
>
> Why was he working on this project to begin with?
>
> Finally, who invented the first integrated circuit?
>
> Duane W8DBF
>
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