[NJARC] Happy Birthday!

[john ruccolo]

Hi Jim,

Fascinating stuff, thanks! I always thought
Shockley/Bardeen/Brattain fabricated the first
transistor themselves.

I can assure you that nothing has changed in America's
technology companies. The grunts do 80% of the work,
and the "managers" get 100% of the credit! ;-)


Regards,

John
--- James troe <troe at netcarrier.com> wrote:

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> Not quite true!
> They did not BUILD the first transistor. They
> "invented" it and did the 
> theoretical work, and defined how it should be
> constructed. But the guy 
> who actually constructed it was a skilled technician
> who later worked in 
> my Department. Problem is I had so many people work
> for me over the 
> years and my memory is getting older every day,
> right now I can not 
> remember his name. He never got any publicity for
> being part of the 
> team, and never showed up in the early photographs
> of the inventors, but 
> he was invited back every year for awhile to their
> anniversary 
> celebration.
> This was often true with the skilled technicians who
> supported the 
> famous.
> Jim Troe
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <Billoradio at aol.com>
> To: <njarc at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Monday, December 17, 2007 10:35 AM
> Subject: Re: [NJARC] Happy Birthday!
> 
> 
> > Visit our web site - See http://www.njarc.org
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> > Sixty years ago, on Dec. 16, 1947, three
> physicists, William 
> > Shockley,
> > John Bardeen and William Brattain at Bell
> Laboratories in Murray 
> > Hill,
> > N.J., built the world's first transistor.
> >
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